Banzo vs Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for Banzo). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 7m. Banzo is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Banzo
Fireflies at El Mozote| Banzo | Fireflies at El Mozote | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.8/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 7m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Drama | Action, Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Margarida Cardoso | Ernesto Melara |
| Main cast | Beatriz Batarda, Carloto Cotta, Albano Jerónimo, Gonçalo Waddington, Hoji Fortuna | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk |
Synopsis
Banzo
1907. Afonso, a doctor, arrives at Principe Island to cure servants from a cocoa plantation “infected” with Banzo, nostalgia of the slaves, who are dying from starvation and suicide. The group is confined to the forest, where Afonso decides to heal them by trying to understand what is affecting their soul. Will he manage to save them?
Fireflies at El Mozote
During the 1980s civil war in El Salvador, a rebel group of leftist guerrillas fight to expose its government's death squads via an underground radio network and hope to end their government's reign of terror with the help of an American journalist.
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