Dinner with Friends vs Manderlay

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.9/10 for Manderlay). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 19m. Manderlay is the older of the two (2005 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS Manderlay posterManderlay2005
Dinner with FriendsManderlay
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.9/10
Year20252005
Length1h 36m2h 19m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryLars von Trier
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellJohn Hurt, Jeremy Davies, Jean-Marc Barr, Bryce Dallas Howard, Willem Dafoe

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…

Manderlay

In 1933, a young woman and her father discover an Alabama plantation whose inhabitants live as if slavery had never been abolished. Feeling a sense of duty to those behind the heavy gates, she stays to liberate the people and see them through their first harvest. With four of her father's colleagues and a lawyer, she faces the daunting task of resurrecting the place known as Manderlay.

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