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 posterA Very Private Affair1962 VS Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025
A Very Private AffairDinner with Friends
Audience score★ 5.1/10★ 10.0/10
Year19622025
Length1h 43m1h 36m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorLouis MalleSasha Leigh Henry
Main castMarcello Mastroianni, Brigitte Bardot, Antoine Roblot, Dirk Sanders, Jacqueline DoyenTattiawna 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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