Fireflies at El Mozote vs Magnolia

Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.7/10 for Magnolia). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 3h 9m. Magnolia is the older of the two (1999 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Fireflies at El MozoteMagnolia
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.7/10
Year20251999
Length1h 30m3h 9m
GenresAction, Drama, History, WarDrama
CountryUnited States of AmericaUnited States of America
DirectorErnesto MelaraPaul Thomas Anderson
Main castJeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo ShukWilliam H. Macy, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Baker Hall, Julianne Moore

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.

Magnolia

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

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