Brain on Fire vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for Brain on Fire). Brain on Fire is the shorter watch at 1h 28m compared with 1h 36m. Brain on Fire is the older of the two (2017 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Brain on Fire
Dinner with Friends| Brain on Fire | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2017 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 28m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Gerard Barrett | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Navid Negahban, Richard Armitage, Carrie-Anne Moss, Agam Darshi, Ken Tremblett | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Brain on Fire
Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity.
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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