Before Night Falls vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.6/10 for Before Night Falls). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 14m. Before Night Falls is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Before Night Falls
Dinner with Friends| Before Night Falls | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2000 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 14m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Julian Schnabel | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Najwa Nimri, John Ortiz, Diego Luna, Johnny Depp, Sean Penn | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Before Night Falls
Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.
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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