Fireflies at El Mozote vs The Shadow in My Eye

Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 7.8/10 for The Shadow in My Eye). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 47m. The Shadow in My Eye is the older of the two (2021 against 2025). Both are drama, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Fireflies at El Mozote posterFireflies at El Mozote2025 VS The Shadow in My Eye posterThe Shadow in My Eye2021
Fireflies at El MozoteThe Shadow in My Eye
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 7.8/10
Year20252021
Length1h 30m1h 47m
GenresAction, Drama, History, WarDrama, History, War
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorErnesto MelaraOle Bornedal
Main castJeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo ShukAlex Høgh Andersen, Danica Ćurčić, James Tarpey, Fanny Leander Bornedal, Rikke Louise Andersson

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 Shadow in My Eye

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.

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