Eastern Promises vs Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 7.4/10 for Eastern Promises). Eastern Promises is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 2h 8m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2007). Both are crime, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Eastern Promises posterEastern Promises2007 VS Mississippi Burning posterMississippi Burning1988
Eastern PromisesMississippi Burning
Audience score★ 7.4/10★ 7.7/10
Year20071988
Length1h 41m2h 8m
GenresCrime, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
CountryCanadaUnited States of America
DirectorDavid CronenbergAlan Parker
Main castTatiana Maslany, Vincent Cassel, Viggo Mortensen, Jerzy Skolimowski, Donald SumpterBrad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis

Eastern Promises

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

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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