Beasts of No Nation vs Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Beasts of No Nation). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 17m. Beasts of No Nation is the older of the two (2015 against 2025). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Beasts of No Nation
Fireflies at El Mozote| Beasts of No Nation | Fireflies at El Mozote | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2015 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 17m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Drama, War | Action, Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Cary Joji Fukunaga | Ernesto Melara |
| Main cast | Nana Mensah, Idris Elba, Jude Akuwudike, Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk |
Synopsis
Beasts of No Nation
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.
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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