Dogtooth vs Fireflies at El Mozote
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.1/10 for Dogtooth). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 38m. Dogtooth is the older of the two (2009 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Dogtooth | Fireflies at El Mozote | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.1/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2025 |
| Length | 1h 38m | 1h 30m |
| Genres | Drama | Action, Drama, History, War |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Yorgos Lanthimos | Ernesto Melara |
| Main cast | Angeliki Papoulia, Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Hristos Passalis, Mary Tsoni | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk |
Synopsis
Dogtooth
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his…
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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