Dinner with Friends vs The Lamp

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6/10 for The Lamp). The Lamp is the shorter watch at 8m compared with 1h 36m. The Lamp is the older of the two (1959 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS The Lamp posterThe Lamp1959
Dinner with FriendsThe Lamp
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.0/10
Year20251959
Length1h 36m8m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryRoman Polanski
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellRoman Polanski

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 Lamp

In waning winter light, a doll maker works in his shop, a kerosene lamp beside him, a jumble of dolls and doll parts, whole and broken, surrounding him. There are noises, too: a cuckoo clock chirps the workday's end. The artisan completes a repair and leaves, shuttering the shop from outside. Back inside, whispering begins. What else is in store for the shop's seemingly lifeless denizens?

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