Dancing in the Dust vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for Dancing in the Dust). Dancing in the Dust is the shorter watch at 1h 35m compared with 1h 36m. Dancing in the Dust is the older of the two (2004 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dancing in the Dust
Dinner with Friends| Dancing in the Dust | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2004 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 35m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | Iran | – |
| Director | Asghar Farhadi | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Faramarz Gharibian, Yousef Khodaparast, Baran Kosari, Jalal Sarhad Seraj, Saeed Noorullahi | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Dancing in the Dust
When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive wedding and to pay some ongoing restitution to his sweet jilted bride, Reyhaneh. When he falls behind in the payments he flees the police and ends up in the desert with an uncommunicative old man who catches poisonous snakes for their venom. These two are forced to coexist…
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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