Fireflies at El Mozote vs The Lower Depths
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7/10 for The Lower Depths). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 2h 5m. The Lower Depths is the older of the two (1957 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fireflies at El Mozote
The Lower Depths| Fireflies at El Mozote | The Lower Depths | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 7.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 1957 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 2h 5m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, War | Drama |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Ernesto Melara | Akira Kurosawa |
| Main cast | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk | Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Yū Fujiki, Toshirō Mifune, Eijirō Tōno |
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 Lower Depths
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.
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