Fireflies at El Mozote vs Liberty Heights

Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.7/10 for Liberty Heights). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 7m. Liberty Heights is the older of the two (1999 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Fireflies at El Mozote posterFireflies at El Mozote2025 VS Liberty Heights posterLiberty Heights1999
Fireflies at El MozoteLiberty Heights
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.7/10
Year20251999
Length1h 30m2h 7m
GenresAction, Drama, History, WarDrama
CountryUnited States of AmericaUnited States of America
DirectorErnesto MelaraBarry Levinson
Main castJeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo ShukDavid Krumholtz, Anthony Anderson, James Pickens Jr., Joe Mantegna, Orlando Jones

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.

Liberty Heights

This semi-autobiographical film by Barry Levinson follows various members of the Kurtzman clan, a Jewish family living in suburban Baltimore during the 1950s. As teenaged Ben completes high school, he falls for Sylvia, a black classmate, creating inevitable tensions. Meanwhile, Ben's brother, Van, attends college and becomes smitten with a mysterious woman while their father tries to maintain his burlesque business.

Where to watch

Where to watch Fireflies at El MozoteWhere to watch Liberty Heights

More like Fireflies at El Mozote · More like Liberty Heights · Compare other titles