Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1The Invite (2026)The Invite (2026) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 25 Jun 2026Two couples turn an apparently ordinary invitation between neighbours into a contest over intimacy, status and the lives they might have chosen. The 2026 Olivia Wilde film is the English-language reworking of The People Upstairs, so compare how the performers make a room feel welcoming and then…0
  2. 2The Party (2017)The Party (2017) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased 27 Jul 2017A celebration of a politician's promotion gives each arriving friend a chance to puncture the hosts' image of success. Sally Potter's compact black-and-white staging keeps reactions within reach of one another. It suits viewers who enjoy a brisk collision of private news and public principles more…0
  3. 3Coherence (2014)Coherence (2014) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 6 Apr 2014The dinner is already full of awkward personal history before a passing comet makes the familiar house unreliable. Small choices about who steps outside become enormously tense because the group cannot agree on what has changed. This is the puzzle-lover's option, with a science-fiction premise…0
  4. 4Perfect Strangers (2016)Perfect Strangers (2016) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 11 Feb 2016Friends agree to share every call and message received during dinner, turning a playful challenge into a test none can control. The Italian original makes phone placement and the timing of interruptions as important as the revelations. Choose it for the uncomfortable gap between wanting openness…0
  5. 5The Invitation (2016)The Invitation (2016) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased 8 Apr 2016A man returns to his former home for a dinner whose hosts seem insistently serene. Karyn Kusama makes grief and social embarrassment compete with the urge to leave, so refusing a drink or questioning a ritual can feel disproportionately difficult. A severe horror choice involving suicide and…0
  6. 6The Celebration (1998)The Celebration (1998) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased 19 Jun 1998A patriarch's birthday banquet is organised to honour a shared family story, until one guest insists on another version. The handheld images make the room's attempts to resume normal service intensely uncomfortable. The revelations concern child sexual abuse, and the film's power comes from the…0
  7. 7Beatriz at Dinner (2017)Beatriz at Dinner (2017) 6.0/10 on IMDbReleased 9 Jun 2017A healer becomes an accidental guest among wealthy people whose pleasant conversation rests on assumptions she cannot share. Salma Hayek makes the effort to remain courteous feel increasingly costly. The gathering exposes who is expected to absorb discomfort so that somebody else's evening can stay…0
  8. 8The People Upstairs (2020)The People Upstairs (2020) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased 30 Oct 2020A couple invite the neighbours whose noisy sex life has become impossible to ignore, only to discover that addressing one problem opens several others. Cesc Gay keeps the comedy close to the exchanges between four adults in one flat. It offers embarrassment and competing ideas of freedom rather…0
  9. 9The Last Supper (1995)The Last Supper (1995) 6.7/10 on IMDbReleased 8 Sept 1995A group of liberal friends turn their regular dinner into a grotesque experiment in judging and eliminating people they despise. The black comedy lets their civilised self-image unravel through the ritual they invent. Pick it for abrasive moral satire, with murder and deliberately ugly arguments at…0
  10. 10The Exterminating Angel (1962)The Exterminating Angel (1962) 7.9/10 on IMDbReleased 16 May 1962After dinner, an affluent group inexplicably fail to leave a drawing room, and etiquette becomes increasingly difficult to maintain. Luis Buñuel needs no elaborate explanation to make their confidence look fragile. This older surrealist choice rewards viewers happy to examine the social rules of…0