Dinner with Friends vs Gioia

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.5/10 for Gioia). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 48m. Dinner with Friends is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS Gioia posterGioia2026
Dinner with FriendsGioia
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.5/10
Year20252026
Length1h 36m1h 48m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryNicolangelo Gelormini
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellJasmine Trinca, Valeria Golino, Betti Pedrazzi, Saul Nanni, Laura Mazzi

Synopsis

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…

Gioia

Gioia is a high school teacher who has never known any other love than the oppressive bond with her own parents, with whom she still lives. One of the students at her school, Alessio, is cashing in on his own body to make a couple of hundred euros to help his mother, a cashier in a supermarket. The relationship that dawns between Gioia and Alessio is forbidden fruit, fragile yet, inexplicably, one they can’t do without. Still, Alessio’s desire…

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