Control vs Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.5/10 for Control). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 1m. Control is the older of the two (2007 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Control | Fireflies at El Mozote | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2007 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 1m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Drama | Action, Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Anton Corbijn | Ernesto Melara |
| Main cast | Harry Treadaway, Toby Kebbell, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Sam Riley | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk |
Synopsis
Control
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
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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