Mississippi Burning vs The Raven

Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.3/10 for The Raven). The Raven is the shorter watch at 1h 51m compared with 2h 8m. Mississippi Burning is the older of the two (1988 against 2012). Both are crime, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Mississippi Burning posterMississippi Burning1988 VS The Raven posterThe Raven2012
Mississippi BurningThe Raven
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 6.3/10
Year19882012
Length2h 8m1h 51m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Mystery, Thriller
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorAlan ParkerJames McTeigue
Main castBrad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen TobolowskyBrendan Coyle, Adrian Rawlins, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson

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.

The Raven

A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

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