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 posterDinner with Friends2025 VS Pain and Glory posterPain and Glory2019
Dinner with FriendsPain and Glory
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.4/10
Year20252019
Length1h 36m1h 54m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryPedro Almodóvar
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellPenélope 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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