Fireflies at El Mozote vs The Death of a Lumberjack

Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 4.9/10 for The Death of a Lumberjack). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 55m. The Death of a Lumberjack is the older of the two (1973 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Fireflies at El Mozote posterFireflies at El Mozote2025 VS The Death of a Lumberjack posterThe Death of a Lumberjack1973
Fireflies at El MozoteThe Death of a Lumberjack
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 4.9/10
Year20251973
Length1h 30m1h 55m
GenresAction, Drama, History, WarDrama
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorErnesto MelaraGilles Carle
Main castJeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo ShukDaniel Pilon, Carole Laure, Willie Lamothe, Pauline Julien, Marcel Sabourin

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.

The Death of a Lumberjack

This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that…

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