Fireflies at El Mozote vs Maddened by His Absence
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.9/10 for Maddened by His Absence). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 38m. Maddened by His Absence is the older of the two (2012 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fireflies at El Mozote
Maddened by His Absence| Fireflies at El Mozote | Maddened by His Absence | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 5.9/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2012 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 38m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, War | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | Belgium |
| Director | Ernesto Melara | Sandrine Bonnaire |
| Main cast | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk | William Hurt, Augustin Legrand, Alexandra Lamy, Jean-François Wolff, Colette Kieffer |
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.
Maddened by His Absence
After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 year old son, Paul. Upon his return, Jacques and Mado meet again; he asks to meet her son Paul; Mado hesitates, then accepts but hides it from her husband. Soon, Paul and Jacques get close and they start…
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