Carandiru vs Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Carandiru). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 25m. Carandiru is the older of the two (2003 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Carandiru
Fireflies at El Mozote| Carandiru | Fireflies at El Mozote | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2003 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 25m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Drama | Action, Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Héctor Babenco | Ernesto Melara |
| Main cast | Caio Blat, Wagner Moura, Lázaro Ramos, Rodrigo Santoro, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk |
Synopsis
Carandiru
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.
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.
Where to watch
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