Barbara vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for Barbara). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 45m. Barbara is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Barbara
Dinner with Friends| Barbara | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 45m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Christian Petzold | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Nina Hoss, Rainer Bock, Ronald Zehrfeld, Christina Hecke, Claudia Geisler-Bading | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Barbara
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.
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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