Best "mississippi river" Movies of All Time

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The Help(2011)

PG-13

| 2h 26min | Drama

4.1/5 (with 3,547 votes)

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 struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

Directed by Tate Taylor - With Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly, Chris Lowell, ...

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A Time to Kill(1996)

| 2h 29min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 1,090 votes)

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.

Directed by Joel Schumacher - With Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Ashley Judd, Donald Sutherland, ...

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?(2000)

PG-13

| 1h 47min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

3.7/5 (with 1,804 votes)

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 'Odyssey'.

Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - With George Clooney, John Goodman, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Holly Hunter, Charles Durning, ...

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(1958)

| 1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 316 votes)

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Directed by Richard Brooks - With Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Madeleine Sherwood, ...

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Mississippi Burning(1988)

| 2h 8min | Drama, Thriller, Crime, History, Mystery

3.8/5 (with 691 votes)

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 small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

Directed by Alan Parker - With Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, R. Lee Ermey, Michael Rooker, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, ...

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Life(1999)

| 1h 48min | Comedy, Crime

3.3/5 (with 330 votes)

Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.

Directed by Ted Demme - With Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Nick Cassavetes, Ned Beatty, Anthony Anderson, Bernie Mac, ...

Secret Window(2004)

PG-13

| 1h 36min | Mystery, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 1,611 votes)

Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

Directed by David Koepp - With Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles S. Dutton, Len Cariou, ...

The Little Mermaid(2018)

| 1h 38min | Kids & Family, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance / Love, Drama

2.5/5 (with 395 votes)

A young reporter and his niece discover a beautiful and enchanting creature they believe to be the real little mermaid.

Directed by Chris Bouchard - With Gina Gershon, Shirley MacLaine, Poppy Drayton, William Moseley

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Maverick(1994)

| 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western

3.4/5 (with 682 votes)

Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game that begins in a few days, so he joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvellous southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.

Directed by Richard Donner - With Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, James Coburn, Alfred Molina, ...

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The Straight Story(1999)

| 1h 52min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 637 votes)

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.

Directed by David Lynch - With Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton, Everett McGill, Wiley Harker, Kevin Farley, ...

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The Beguiled(1971)

| 1h 45min | Drama, Thriller, War

3.5/5 (with 182 votes)

Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.

Directed by Don Siegel - With Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darleen Carr, Melody Thomas Scott, ...

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The Cure(1995)

PG-13

| 1h 37min | Drama, Kids & Family

4.0/5 (with 128 votes)

Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer.

Directed by Peter Horton - With Brad Renfro, Joseph Mazzello, Diana Scarwid, Annabella Sciorra, Bruce Davison, John Carroll Lynch, ...

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The Big Trail(1930)

2h 2min | Adventure, Western, Romance / Love, Drama

3.4/5 (with 43 votes)

Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, Tyrone Power Sr., El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Ian Keith, ...

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Mudbound(2017)

| 2h 15min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 547 votes)

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.

Directed by Dee Rees - With Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, David Jensen, ...

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Goodbye Uncle Tom(1971)

2h 3min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 22 votes)

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

Directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco E. Prosperi, Franco Prosperi - With Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco E. Prosperi, Franco Prosperi

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Biloxi Blues(1988)

PG-13

| 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 88 votes)

Eugene, an aspiring writer from Brooklyn, is drafted into the US Army during the final months of World War II. For his basic training, the Army sends him to Camp Shelby in Mississippi, where toil, bad food, and antisemitic jibes await. Eugene takes refuge in his sense of humor and in his diary, but they won't protect him in a battle of wills with an unstable drill sergeant.

Directed by Mike Nichols - With Christopher Walken, Casey Siemaszko, Corey Parker, David Schwimmer, Matthew Broderick, Penelope Ann Miller, ...

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Tom and Huck(1995)

| 1h 37min | Kids & Family, Action, Adventure, Drama

2.7/5 (with 77 votes)

A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several adventures trying to retrieve evidence.

Directed by Peter Hewitt - With Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Eric Schweig, Charles Rocket, Amy Wright, Mike McShane, ...

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The Defiant Ones(1958)

| 1h 36min | Crime, Drama

3.6/5 (with 96 votes)

Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.

Directed by Stanley Kramer, Paul Helmick - With Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Cara Williams, Charles McGraw, Lon Chaney Jr., ...

This Property Is Condemned(1966)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 39 votes)

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 escape Alva's mother's (Hazel) clutches and the town's revenge.

Directed by Sydney Pollack - With Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid, Mary Badham, Dabney Coleman, ...

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My Dog Skip(2000)

| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family

3.4/5 (with 125 votes)

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 the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris.

Directed by Jay Russell - With Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Kevin Bacon, Caitlin Wachs, Carl Davis, ...

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Cookie's Fortune(1999)

1h 58min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 71 votes)

Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.

Directed by Robert Altman - With Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell, Charles S. Dutton, Patricia Neal, ...

Mississippi Masala(1991)

1h 58min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

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.

Directed by Mira Nair - With Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth, Sarita Choudhury, Sharmila Tagore, Charles S. Dutton, Joe Seneca, ...

The Reivers(1969)

PG-13

| 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama

3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

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.

Directed by Mark Rydell - With Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Mitch Vogel, Burgess Meredith, Will Geer, Michael Constantine, ...

Crimes of the Heart(1986)

PG-13

| 1h 45min | Comedy, Drama

3.2/5 (with 26 votes)

Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.

Directed by Bruce Beresford - With Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Tess Harper, Hurd Hatfield, ...

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Thieves Like Us(1974)

2h 3min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

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 refuge with the daughter of the gas station attendant, Keechie. They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowie's refusal to turn his back on crime. The film is based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. The novel is also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.

Directed by Robert Altman - With Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen, Louise Fletcher, Tom Skerritt, ...

Duel on the Mississippi(1955)

1h 12min | Drama, Western

3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

In bustling era of 19th-century Louisiana, sugar is as valuable as gold, and pirates like Lili Scarlet (Patricia Medina, Mr. Arkadin) will do anything to get it. After robbing Jules Tulane’s (John Dehner, The Boys from Brazil) estate of his crop, Scarlet takes over Tulane’s land debt and forces him to pay or go to prison. In exchange for postponing his debt, Scarlet allows Tulane’s son, André (Lex Barker, Robin Hood and the Pirates), to work as her servant. When André and Scarlet fall in love, it leads to jealous rage from Scarlet’s former paramour, expert swordsman Hugo (Warren Stevens, Forbidden Planet) — and when Hugo looks to raid the Tulane estate again, it is up to André and Scarlet to take him down and save the estate.

Directed by William Castle - With Lex Barker, Patricia Medina, Warren Stevens, Craig Stevens, Ian Keith, Jean Del Val, ...

Ode to Billy Joe(1976)

| 1h 45min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

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 sexual relations with an unnamed man. The guilt causes him to run away, hide in the woods and eventually confess everything to Bobbi Lee who doesn't want to believe him only because she was enjoying the forbidden nature of their love. In the end, he cannot accept his sexuality nor can he hide behind Bobbi Lee and that's why he throws himself off the Tallahachee bridge.

Directed by Max Baer, Jr. - With Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor

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