Fireflies at El Mozote vs You Can Count on Me

Fireflies at El Mozote has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for You Can Count on Me). Fireflies at El Mozote is the shorter watch at 1h 30m compared with 1h 51m. You Can Count on Me is the older of the two (2000 against 2025). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Fireflies at El Mozote posterFireflies at El Mozote2025 VS You Can Count on Me posterYou Can Count on Me2000
Fireflies at El MozoteYou Can Count on Me
Audience score★ 10.0/10★ 6.8/10
Year20252000
Length1h 30m1h 51m
GenresAction, Drama, History, WarDrama
CountryUnited States of AmericaUnited States of America
DirectorErnesto MelaraKenneth Lonergan
Main castJeff Fahey, Mena Suvari, Yancey Arias, Paz Vega, Juan Pablo ShukJ. Smith-Cameron, Laura Linney, Josh Lucas, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick

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.

You Can Count on Me

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

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