Mississippi Burning vs Parallel Tales
Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 5.7/10 for Parallel Tales). Mississippi Burning is the shorter watch at 2h 8m compared with 2h 20m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2026). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Mississippi Burning
Parallel Tales| Mississippi Burning | Parallel Tales | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 5.7/10 |
| Year | 1988 | 2026 |
| Length | 2h 8m | 2h 20m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | United States of America | France |
| Director | Alan Parker | Asghar Farhadi |
| Main cast | Brad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky | Vincent Cassel, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Pierre Niney, Adam Bessa |
Synopsis
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.
Parallel Tales
In search of inspiration for her new novel, Sylvie spies on her neighbors in the building across the street using a telescope. When she hires young Adam to help her with her daily routine, she has no idea that he will turn her life and her work upside down, until the fiction she had imagined surpasses the reality of them all.
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