Dancing in the Dust vs Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for Dancing in the Dust). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 35m. Dancing in the Dust is the older of the two (2004 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Dancing in the Dust
Fireflies at El Mozote| Dancing in the Dust | Fireflies at El Mozote | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2004 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 35m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Drama | Action, Drama, History, War |
| Country | Iran | United States of America |
| Director | Asghar Farhadi | Ernesto Melara |
| Main cast | Faramarz Gharibian, Yousef Khodaparast, Baran Kosari, Jalal Sarhad Seraj, Saeed Noorullahi | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk |
Synopsis
Dancing in the Dust
When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive wedding and to pay some ongoing restitution to his sweet jilted bride, Reyhaneh. When he falls behind in the payments he flees the police and ends up in the desert with an uncommunicative old man who catches poisonous snakes for their venom. These two are forced to coexist…
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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