Dinner with Friends vs National Theatre Live: Antigone

Dinner with Friends and National Theatre Live: Antigone are tied on audience score (10/10). National Theatre Live: Antigone is the shorter watch at 1h 32m compared with 1h 36m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS National Theatre Live: Antigone posterNational Theatre Live: Antigone2012
Dinner with FriendsNational Theatre Live: Antigone
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20252012
Length1h 36m1h 32m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryPolly Findlay
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellAnnabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker

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…

National Theatre Live: Antigone

In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey. When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state. Polly Findlay's electric 2012 production brings Sophocles' tragedy into the modern world as a gripping political…

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