Dinner with Friends vs The Second Mother

Dinner with Friends has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8/10 for The Second Mother). Dinner with Friends is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 52m. The Second Mother is the older of the two (2015 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dinner with Friends posterDinner with Friends2025 VS The Second Mother posterThe Second Mother2015
Dinner with FriendsThe Second Mother
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 8.0/10
Year20252015
Length1h 36m1h 52m
GenresDramaDrama
Country––
DirectorSasha Leigh HenryAnna Muylaert
Main castTattiawna Jones, Tymika Tafari, Alex Spencer, Izaak Smith, Andrew BushellLuis Miranda, Karine Teles, Regina Casé, Camila Márdila, Lourenço Mutarelli

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 Second Mother

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant…

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