Dinner with Friends vs Pain and Glory
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.4/10 for Pain and Glory). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 54m. Pain and Glory is the older of the two (2019 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Dinner with Friends | Pain and Glory | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2019 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 54m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Penélope Cruz, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Antonio Banderas, Pedro Casablanc, Nora Navas |
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…
Pain and Glory
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
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