Culprit vs Mississippi Burning
Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 4.6/10 for Culprit). Culprit is the shorter watch at 1h 37m compared with 2h 8m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2025). Both are crime, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Culprit
Mississippi Burning| Culprit | Mississippi Burning | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 4.6/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 1988 |
| Length | 1h 37m | 2h 8m |
| Genres | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Rich Ronat | Alan Parker |
| Main cast | Jamie Donovan, Michael Dempsey, Robert Lewis Stephenson, Carolyn Mignini, Laura McLauchlin | Brad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky |
Synopsis
Culprit
In the small town of Huntsville, Texas, there is an unsolved murder of a nine-year-old girl. A convicted ex-con, Jack, has been released from prison after new DNA evidence proved he was not present at the scene of the crime. But when another little girl is brutally murdered after Jack's release, the town points their fingers at the ex-con. As Jack works to free his name, new suspects emerge in a town trying hard to keep secrets buried.
Mississippi Burning
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.
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