Fireflies at El Mozote vs The Edge of Heaven
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.2/10 for The Edge of Heaven). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 2m. The Edge of Heaven is the older of the two (2007 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
| Fireflies at El Mozote | The Edge of Heaven | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.2/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2007 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 2h 2m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, War | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Ernesto Melara | Fatih Akin |
| Main cast | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk | Nejat İşler, Lars Rudolph, İdil Üner, Hanna Schygulla, Güven Kıraç |
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 Edge of Heaven
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
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