Mississippi Burning vs Shanghai
Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.1/10 for Shanghai). Shanghai is the shorter watch at 1h 45m compared with 2h 8m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2010). Both are drama, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Mississippi Burning
Shanghai| Mississippi Burning | Shanghai | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 6.1/10 |
| Year | 1988 | 2010 |
| Length | 2h 8m | 1h 45m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | United States of America | – |
| Director | Alan Parker | Mikael Håfström |
| Main cast | Brad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky | Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Hugh Bonneville, Benedict Wong, Franka Potente, David Morse |
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.
Shanghai
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
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