Bad Tales vs Dinner with Friends

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.7/10 for Bad Tales). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 38m. Bad Tales is the older of the two (2020 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Bad Tales posterBad Tales2020 VS Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025
Bad TalesDinner with Friends
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 10.0/10
Year20202025
Length1h 38m1h 36m
GenresDramaDrama
CountryItaly–
DirectorDamiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'InnocenzoSasha Leigh Henry
Main castBarbara Chichiarelli, Lino Musella, Aldo Ottobrino, Elio Germano, Sara BertelàTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell

Synopsis

Bad Tales

In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this…

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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