Control vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for Control). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 1m. Control is the older of the two (2007 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Control
Dinner with Friends| Control | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2007 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 1m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Anton Corbijn | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Harry Treadaway, Toby Kebbell, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Sam Riley | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Control
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
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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