Departures vs Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.8/10 for Departures). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 10m. Departures is the older of the two (2008 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Departures
Fireflies at El Mozote| Departures | Fireflies at El Mozote | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.8/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2008 | 2025 |
| Length | 2h 10m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Drama | Action, Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Yojiro Takita | Ernesto Melara |
| Main cast | Tatsuo Yamada, Tetta Sugimoto, Ryoko Hirosue, Takashi Sasano, Kazuko Yoshiyuki | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk |
Synopsis
Departures
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
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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