A Very Private Affair vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.1/10 for A Very Private Affair). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 43m. A Very Private Affair is the older of the two (1962 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| A Very Private Affair | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.1/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 1962 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 43m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Louis Malle | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Marcello Mastroianni, Brigitte Bardot, Antoine Roblot, Dirk Sanders, Jacqueline Doyen | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
A Very Private Affair
After achieving fame as a movie star, a woman finds her private life invaded by relentless fans, leading her mother’s ex-lover to intervene and offer protection.
Dinner with Friends
After the parties, jobs, and hook-ups throughout their twenties and into their thirties, eight friends are trying to hold on to their group as they get older and life gets complicated. Over a series of dinners, the group deals with loyalty, loss, and an uncertain future as relationships shift and secrets are unraveled, with each dinner bringing its own dynamic-shifting announcement of reconciliation, unexpected relationships, and betrayal. The…
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