Dinner with Friends vs The Motive
Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.2/10 for The Motive). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 44m. The Motive is the older of the two (2017 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dinner with Friends
The Motive| Dinner with Friends | The Motive | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.2/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2017 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 44m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | Mexico |
| Director | Sasha Leigh Henry | Manuel Martín Cuenca |
| Main cast | Tattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew Bushell | Adriana Paz, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Javier Gutiérrez, Antonio de la Torre, 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…
The Motive
Álvaro, a man obsessed with the idea of writing what he brands as “high literature,” manipulates the lives and feelings of the people around him to write about the consequences caused by his devious acts.
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