Dark Places vs Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 5.9/10 for Dark Places). Dark Places is the shorter watch at 1h 53m compared with 2h 8m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2015). Both are crime, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dark Places posterDark Places2015 VS Mississippi Burning posterMississippi Burning1988
Dark PlacesMississippi Burning
Audience score★ 5.9/10★ 7.7/10
Year20151988
Length1h 53m2h 8m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country–United States of America
DirectorGilles Paquet-BrennerAlan Parker
Main castDrea de Matteo, Christina Hendricks, Shannon Kook, Corey Stoll, Charlize TheronBrad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis

Dark Places

A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

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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