Mississippi Burning vs Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.7/10 for Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974). Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 2h 8m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2009). Both are crime, drama, mystery movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Mississippi Burning posterMississippi Burning1988 VS Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 posterRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 19742009
Mississippi BurningRed Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 6.7/10
Year19882009
Length2h 8m1h 42m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie
CountryUnited States of AmericaUnited Kingdom
DirectorAlan ParkerJulian Jarrold
Main castBrad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen TobolowskyMichelle Dockery, Eddie Marsan, David Morrissey, Robert Sheehan, Andrew Garfield

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.

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them…

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