Dinner with Friends vs The Beloved

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.9/10 for The Beloved). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 15m. Dinner with Friends is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS The Beloved posterThe Beloved2026
Dinner with FriendsThe Beloved
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.9/10
Year20252026
Length1h 36m2h 15m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryRodrigo Sorogoyen
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellJavier Bardem, Laura Birn, Melina Matthews, Marina Foïs, Raúl Arévalo

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…

The Beloved

The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new project, he offers his daughter Emilia a role under the pretext of helping her with her stalled acting career. Living together on set will foster a closeness they haven’t shared for years, but it will also reopen old wounds that never healed.

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