Central Station vs Fireflies at El Mozote

Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 8.1/10 for Central Station). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 50m. Central Station is the older of the two (1998 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Central StationFireflies at El Mozote
Audience score★ 8.1/10★ 10.0/10
Year19982025
Length1h 50m1h 30m
GenresDramaAction, Drama, History, War
Country–United States of America
DirectorWalter SallesErnesto Melara
Main castMatheus Nachtergaele, Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra, Othon BastosJeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk

Synopsis

Central Station

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

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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