Fireflies at El Mozote vs The Good Lie
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.4/10 for The Good Lie). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 50m. The Good Lie is the older of the two (2014 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fireflies at El Mozote
The Good Lie| Fireflies at El Mozote | The Good Lie | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.4/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2014 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 50m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, War | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Ernesto Melara | Philippe Falardeau |
| Main cast | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk | Corey Stoll, Reese Witherspoon, Joshua Mikel, Thad Luckinbill, Maria Howell |
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 Good Lie
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
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