Fireflies at El Mozote vs Waiting for the Barbarians
Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.9/10 for Waiting for the Barbarians). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 54m. Waiting for the Barbarians is the older of the two (2019 against 2025). Both are drama, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fireflies at El Mozote
Waiting for the Barbarians| Fireflies at El Mozote | Waiting for the Barbarians | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 5.9/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2019 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 1h 54m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, History, War | Drama, History |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Ernesto Melara | Ciro Guerra |
| Main cast | Jeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo Shuk | Sam Reid, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson |
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.
Waiting for the Barbarians
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
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