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10 Best Movies Like Mississippi Burning

If you loved Mississippi Burning, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
A Time to Kill

A Time to Kill

1996★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mississippi Burning for fans of Drama & Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK....

#2
The Devil All the Time

The Devil All the Time

2020★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mississippi Burning for fans of Drama & Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family....

#3
Winter's Bone

Winter's Bone

2010★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mississippi Burning for fans of Drama & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilder...

#4
Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

1967★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mississippi Burning for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragli...

#5
In the Electric Mist

In the Electric Mist

2009★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mississippi Burning for fans of Drama & Crime & Mystery & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a ...

#6
Above Suspicion

Above Suspicion

2019★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mississippi Burning for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local ...

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