Banzo vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for Banzo). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 7m. Banzo is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Banzo
Dinner with Friends| Banzo | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.8/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 7m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Margarida Cardoso | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Beatriz Batarda, Carloto Cotta, Albano Jerónimo, Gonçalo Waddington, Hoji Fortuna | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Banzo
1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is confined to the forest, where Afonso decides to heal them by trying to understand what is affecting their soul. Will he manage to save them?
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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