Mississippi Burning vs The Secret Woman

Mississippi Burning has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.4/10 for The Secret Woman). The Secret Woman is the shorter watch at 1h 59m compared with 2h 8m. 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 posterMississippi Burning1988 VS The Secret Woman posterThe Secret Woman2026
Mississippi BurningThe Secret Woman
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 6.4/10
Year19882026
Length2h 8m1h 59m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerDrama, Mystery, Thriller
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorAlan ParkerBarbara Topsøe-Rothenborg
Main castBrad Dourif, Kevin Dunn, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Willem Dafoe, Stephen TobolowskyMia Jexen, Stina Ekblad, Pål Sverre Hagen, Claes Bang, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal

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 Secret Woman

After discovering she has a family and a shipping empire, a woman with amnesia returns to a wealthy and seemingly perfect past to uncover why she left.

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