Fireflies at El Mozote vs The Minister

Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.5/10 for The Minister). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 55m. The Minister is the older of the two (2011 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Fireflies at El MozoteThe Minister
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.5/10
Year20252011
Length1h 30m1h 55m
GenresAction, Drama, History, WarDrama
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorErnesto MelaraPierre Schoeller
Main castJeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo ShukOlivier Gourmet, Arly Jover, François Vincentelli, Jacques Boudet, François Chattot

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 Minister

Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.

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