Movies and TV shows set in mississippi
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in mississippi ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, feel good, touching, talky and dramatic films and TV shows about / with family relations, culture clash, dialogue, redemption, storytelling, mentor, runaway, adaptation, small town and catastrophe plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
mississippi
TOP 10 movies tagged as mississippi: Mississippi Burning (1988), A Time to Kill (1996), The Sound and the Fury (2014), Mississippi Masala (1991), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), My Dog Skip (2000), Biloxi Blues (1988), Mudbound (2017), Down in the Delta (1998), The Help (2011).
Best films
List of movies set in mississippi
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, tense, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
racism, small town, civil rights, police, african american, ku klux klan, investigation, murder, suspense, racial slur, violence, politics ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place:
mississippi, canada, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, lawyer, courtroom drama, court, murder, justice, courtroom, small town, rape, legal, injustice, legal action ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, canada, southern usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, parents and children, downfall, life is a bitch, family in crisis, family life, family problems, mental retardation, suicide, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
1910s, 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, southern usa, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
Style:
romantic, touching, sexy, light, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, immigrants, culture clash, interracial relations, racial prejudice, stereotypes, honest, love affair, opposites attract, social differences, fall in love, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972, year 1990
Place:
mississippi, africa, uganda, india, california ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's ...
Style:
road movie, funny, entertaining, surreal, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
prison escape, on the run, small town, music, great depression, treasure hunt, obsessive quest, country music, runaway, dark humor, buddies, satire ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1937
Place:
mississippi, ancient greece, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sweet, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
dog, coming of age, childhood, world war two, small town, animals, child's point of view, friendship, youth, children, baseball, lifestyle ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, oxford university, southern usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During the Second World War, Eugene enlists in the US Army during the last year of the War and is sent to basic training in Biloxi Mississippi. There he must live with a variety of fellow soldiers while enduring the whims of a mentally unstable ...
Style:
humorous, funny, realistic, clever, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, boot camp, gay, basic training, military life, military, adaptation, friendship, soldier, youth, virginity ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, new york, poland, arkansas
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, tense, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
african american, racism, misery, poverty, world war two, farm, drunkenness, post war, prejudice, civil rights, money, doctor ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1941, year 1945, year 1939 ...
Place:
mississippi, belgium
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rosa Lynn sends her druggie daughter Loretta and her children Thomas and Tracy away from the big city to live with their uncle Earl in the ancestral home in rural Mississippi. Earl puts Loretta to work in his restaurant, Just Chicken, while also ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, feel good, affectionate ...
Plot:
slavery, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, drug addiction, african american, anti racism, racism, nude, women of color, multiple storylines, fashion, adoption ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
mississippi, chicago illinois, canada, tokyo, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, thought provoking, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids
Plot:
racism, friendship, writers, civil rights, social relations, maid, master and servant, human spirit, discrimination, life is a bitch, women, racial issues ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, year 1963
Place:
mississippi, usa, africa, southern usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
prison, twists and turns, life sentence, prison escape, prison life, redemption, african american, friendship between men, friendship, criminal, adaptation, escape attempt ...
Time:
1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1932
Place:
mississippi, new jersey, new york, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
Style:
road movie, humorous, atmospheric, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
coming of age, youth, car, supernatural, sex, small town, americana, prostitute, social relations, family relations, on the road, city life ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
mississippi, memphis, usa, southern usa, st. louis missouri
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Billy Joe confesses his love to the lovely Bobbi Lee only to cover his growing fear that he may, in fact, be homosexual. One night, at a barn dance, he gets a little drunk and rather than going with the hired whores, gives into his desires and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching
Plot:
coming of age, gay, doll, cult, children, love, teen suicide, obsessive love, small town, homosexual subtext, young love, sexual identity ...
Time:
50s
Place:
mississippi, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
Style:
witty, humorous, feel good, visually appealing, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
loneliness, suicide, murder, investigation, death, dysfunctional family, greed, eccentricity, fantasy world, obsession, lawyer, satire ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, texas, southern usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A girl from Yazoo City, Mississippi pins all her hopes on winning the local beauty pageant.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, talky, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, small town, underdog, contests and competitions, love and romance, human nature, youth, family problems, couples, cons and scams, looking for love, parents and children ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mississippi, new york, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Cult classic starring Ralph Macchio as a want-to-be blues guitar virtuoso who seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician Robert Johnson.
Style:
road movie, light, inspirational, captivating, buddy movie ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
deal with the devil, music, blues, rock and roll, destiny, coming of age, on the road, mentor, supernatural, musician, transformation, life philosophy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, new york, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent ...
Style:
sentimental, uplifting, realistic, road movie, compassionate ...
Plot:
racism, civil rights, discrimination, interracial relations, racial segregation, social differences, injustice, life is a bitch, society, youth, teaching the ways of the world, family life ...
Time:
1940s, 70s, 50s
Place:
mississippi, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
Style:
funny, entertaining, humorous, absurd, clever ...
Plot:
heist, dark humor, robbery, crime gone awry, painting, cons and scams, eccentricity, greed, culture clash, african american, murder, con artists ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mississippi, new orleans, usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife, Amy, to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
Style:
tense, disturbing, psychological, rough, brutal ...
Plot:
rape, home invasion, gang rape, small town, revenge, rape and revenge, infidelity, vengeance, cheating wife, self defense, rape victim, sexual humiliation ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, california, new orleans
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, thought provoking, intense ...
Plot:
racism, prejudice, small town, african american, racial slur, police, murder, racial tension, murder mystery, investigation, police officer, police procedural ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, california, north carolina ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown and he's left to burn the days caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep ...
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, youth, family relations, family problems, american football, social relations, innocence lost, dysfunctional family, teenage life, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes ...
Style:
neo noir, road movie, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
on the run, gangsters, murder, criminal, great depression, prison, heist, lovers on the run, thief, female nudity, love, loneliness ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door. A 1961 film, adapted from a Tennessee Williams play, starring Geraldine Page, Laurence Harvey, John McIntire, Una Merkel and Rita ...
Style:
realistic, serious, gloomy, emotional, neurotic ...
Plot:
small town, unfulfilled love, spinster, summer, womanizer, repression, family relations, love triangle, small town life, loneliness, cockfight, couples ...
Time:
1910s, pre world war one
Place:
mississippi, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, railway, boarding house, mental disorder, mother and daughter, revenge, betrayal, family relations, mother daughter relationship, adolescence, obsession ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
mississippi, australia, tennessee, usa, new orleans
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Genre: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A famous violinist Caroline Waverly returns to her home town. A killer is on the streets, and Caroline may be a target for murder.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot:
womanizer, brother brother relationship, female protagonist, murder, dead woman, father son relationship, suspense, musician, murder mystery, getting home, serial murder, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mississippi
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
Style:
talky, touching, humorous, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
sisters, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, childhood, betrayal, redemption, adaptation, parenthood, family relations, parents and children, eccentric family, family problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
bullying, coming of age, vietnam war, childhood, father son relationship, friendship, child, children, youth, war, bittersweet, boy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, vietnam, usa, asia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Skyler Day stars as Ociee Nash, a spirited nine-year-old from rural Mississippi. Ociee's idyllic life is thrown into a tailspin when she's sent to live with her Aunt Mamie to become a "young lady". Ociee's true bravery, ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, feel good, realistic, gothic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, mischievous children, farm, starting over, young heroes, friendship, lifestyle, single parent, family life, adoption, teaching the ways of the world, nanny ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
north carolina, mississippi, tennessee, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Red Dirt offers the story of a young man's search to belong in this sublime expression of love and reconciliation. At only twenty, Griffith is struggling with the responsibilities of caring for his unwell aunt, grieving the loss of their ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
aunt nephew relationship, friendship, cousin cousin relationship, drifter, family relations, leaving home, love and romance, mentally unstable, social relations, misfit, small town, secret ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, louisiana, montana, southern usa
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Ghosts of Mississippi is a drama covering the final trial of the assassin, Bryon De La Beckwith, of the 60s civil rights leader Medgar Evers. It begins with the murder and the events surrounding the two initial trials which both ended in a hung ...
Style:
thought provoking, talky, factual, compassionate, intense ...
Plot:
racism, courtroom drama, courtroom, civil rights, court, legal, lawyer, racial violence, legal investigation, murder, investigation, assassination ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 90s
Place:
usa, mississippi, southern usa
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