Dinner with Friends vs Oedipus Rex

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.1/10 for Oedipus Rex). Oedipus Rex is the shorter watch at 1h 27m compared with 1h 36m. Oedipus Rex is the older of the two (1957 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS Oedipus Rex posterOedipus Rex1957
Dinner with FriendsOedipus Rex
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.1/10
Year20251957
Length1h 36m1h 27m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryTyrone Guthrie
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellWilliam Shatner, David Gardner, Louis Negin, Douglas Campbell, Eleanor Stuart

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…

Oedipus Rex

The story of Oedipus' gradual discovery of his primal crime, killing his father and marrying his mother, filmed by the famed British theatrical director Sir Tyrone Guthrie. This elegant version of Sophocles' play adds a brilliant stroke: the actors wear masks just as the Greeks did in the playwright's day.

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