Dao vs Dinner with Friends
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.3/10 for Dao). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 3h 5m. Dinner with Friends is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dao
Dinner with Friends| Dao | Dinner with Friends | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 5.3/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2025 |
| Length | 3h 5m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Alain Gomis | Sasha Leigh Henry |
| Main cast | Samir Guesmi, Thomas Ngijol, Katy Correa, D’Johé Kouadio, Mike Etienne | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell |
Synopsis
Dao
A family weaves the threads of a heritage that travels between worlds. Joy and pain, memory and transmission. A wedding in France, a commemorative ceremony in Guinea-Bissau. Two celebrations, organically intertwined through bodies and time, leading to a rebirth.
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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