Dinner with Friends vs The Lower Depths

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for The Lower Depths). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 5m. The Lower Depths is the older of the two (1957 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS The Lower Depths posterThe Lower Depths1957
Dinner with FriendsThe Lower Depths
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.0/10
Year20251957
Length1h 36m2h 5m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryAkira Kurosawa
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellIsuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Yū Fujiki, Toshirō Mifune, Eijirō Tōno

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 Lower Depths

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.

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