Eyes Wide Shut vs Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 7.5/10 for Eyes Wide Shut). Mississippi Burning is the shorter watch at 2h 8m compared with 2h 39m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 1999). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Eyes Wide Shut posterEyes Wide Shut1999 VS Mississippi Burning posterMississippi Burning1988
Eyes Wide ShutMississippi Burning
Audience score★ 7.5/10★ 7.7/10
Year19991988
Length2h 39m2h 8m
GenresDrama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country–United States of America
DirectorStanley KubrickAlan Parker
Main castNicole Kidman, Alan Cumming, Rade Šerbedžija, Tom Cruise, Thomas GibsonBrad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis

Eyes Wide Shut

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

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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