Fireflies at El Mozote vs Gioia

Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.5/10 for Gioia). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 48m. Fireflies at El Mozote is the older of the two (2025 against 2026). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Fireflies at El MozoteGioia
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.5/10
Year20252026
Length1h 30m1h 48m
GenresAction, Drama, History, WarDrama
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorErnesto MelaraNicolangelo Gelormini
Main castJeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo ShukJasmine Trinca, Valeria Golino, Betti Pedrazzi, Saul Nanni, Laura Mazzi

Synopsis

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.

Gioia

Gioia is a high school teacher who has never known any other love than the oppressive bond with her own parents, with whom she still lives. One of the students at her school, Alessio, is cashing in on his own body to make a couple of hundred euros to help his mother, a cashier in a supermarket. The relationship that dawns between Gioia and Alessio is forbidden fruit, fragile yet, inexplicably, one they can’t do without. Still, Alessio’s desire…

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