Detachment vs Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.6/10 for Detachment). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 38m. Detachment is the older of the two (2011 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Detachment
Fireflies at El Mozote| Detachment | Fireflies at El Mozote | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.6/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2011 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 38m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Drama | Action, Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Tony Kaye | Ernesto Melara |
| Main cast | Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk |
Synopsis
Detachment
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
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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