Fireflies at El Mozote vs Taking Sides
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.2/10 for Taking Sides). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 48m. Taking Sides is the older of the two (2002 against 2025). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fireflies at El Mozote
Taking Sides| Fireflies at El Mozote | Taking Sides | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.2/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2002 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 48m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, War | Drama, Music, War |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Ernesto Melara | István Szabó |
| Main cast | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk | Harvey Keitel, R. Lee Ermey, August Zirner, Moritz Bleibtreu, Stellan Skarsgård |
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.
Taking Sides
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute…
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