Flightplan vs Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.5/10 for Flightplan). Flightplan is the shorter watch at 1h 38m compared with 2h 8m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2005). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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FlightplanMississippi Burning
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 7.7/10
Year20051988
Length1h 38m2h 8m
GenresDrama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country–United States of America
DirectorRobert SchwentkeAlan Parker
Main castPeter Sarsgaard, Jodie Foster, Greta Scacchi, Michael Irby, Erika ChristensenBrad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis

Flightplan

Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.

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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