Central Station vs Dinner with Friends

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8.1/10 for Central Station). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 50m. Central Station is the older of the two (1998 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Central Station posterCentral Station1998 VS Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025
Central StationDinner with Friends
Audience score★ 8.1/10★ 10.0/10
Year19982025
Length1h 50m1h 36m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorWalter SallesSasha Leigh Henry
Main castMatheus Nachtergaele, Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra, Othon BastosTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell

Synopsis

Central Station

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

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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