Code Unknown vs Fireflies at El Mozote

Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.7/10 for Code Unknown). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 58m. Code Unknown is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Code Unknown posterCode Unknown2000 VS Fireflies at El Mozote posterFireflies at El Mozote2025
Code UnknownFireflies at El Mozote
Audience score★ 6.7/10★ 10.0/10
Year20002025
Length1h 58m1h 30m
GenresDramaAction, Drama, History, War
Country––
DirectorMichael HanekeErnesto Melara
Main castBruno Todeschini, Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre HamidiJeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk

Synopsis

Code Unknown

A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.

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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