Being 17 vs Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for Being 17). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 56m. Being 17 is the older of the two (2016 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Being 17
Fireflies at El Mozote| Being 17 | Fireflies at El Mozote | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.8/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2016 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 56m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Drama | Action, Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | André Téchiné | Ernesto Melara |
| Main cast | Kacey Mottet Klein, Sandrine Kiberlain, Corentin Fila, Alexis Loret, Jean Fornerod | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk |
Synopsis
Being 17
Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father, a pilot, is on a tour of duty abroad with the French military. At school, Damien is bullied by Thomas, who lives in the farming community up in the mountains. The boys find themselves living together when Marianne invites Thomas to come and stay with them while his mother is ill in hospital. Damien must learn to live with the boy who terrorized him.
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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