Dinner with Friends vs Parallel Mothers

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for Parallel Mothers). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 3m. Parallel Mothers is the older of the two (2021 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS Parallel Mothers posterParallel Mothers2021
Dinner with FriendsParallel Mothers
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.8/10
Year20252021
Length1h 36m2h 3m
GenresDramaDrama
Country–Spain
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryPedro Almodóvar
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellMilena Smit, Penélope Cruz, Rossy de Palma, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Adelfa Calvo

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…

Parallel Mothers

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

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