Code Unknown vs Dinner with Friends

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.7/10 for Code Unknown). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 58m. Code Unknown is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Code Unknown posterCode Unknown2000 VS Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025
Code UnknownDinner with Friends
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 10.0/10
Year20002025
Length1h 58m1h 36m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorMichael HanekeSasha Leigh Henry
Main castBruno Todeschini, Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre HamidiTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell

Synopsis

Code Unknown

A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.

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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