Dinner with Friends vs Once Were Warriors

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.4/10 for Once Were Warriors). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 39m. Once Were Warriors is the older of the two (1994 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS Once Were Warriors posterOnce Were Warriors1994
Dinner with FriendsOnce Were Warriors
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.4/10
Year20251994
Length1h 36m1h 39m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryLee Tamahori
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellTemuera Morrison, Rena Owen, Cliff Curtis, Julian Arahanga, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell

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…

Once Were Warriors

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.

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