84 Films & TV Shows Set In Mississippi
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Vanquish
MississippiShe's got one night to save her life. — Victoria is a young mother trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage. Now, Victoria must use guns, guts and a motorcycle to take out a series of violent gangsters—or she may never see her child again.
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Deadpool 2
New York Mississippi 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Osaka Prefecture 🇮🇹 Italy The 2010sPrepare for the Second Coming. — Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.
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The Little Mermaid
MississippiA new twist on the classic tail — A young reporter and his niece discover a beautiful and enchanting creature they believe to be the real little mermaid.
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Tales from the Hood 2
Mississippi The 1950sMr. Simms returns to tell more eerie, unsettling tales involving dolls, psychics, possession and ghosts.
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Green Book
New York Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Iowa Kentucky North Carolina Tennessee Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Georgia The 1960sInspired by a True Friendship — Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
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Same Kind of Different as Me
MississippiBased On The Incredible True Story That Inspired Millions — International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
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Arsenal
MississippiBrotherhood has its price. — After the deadbeat brother of a businessman is assumed to be in on his own kidnapping, his sibling must take action to rescue him.
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Mudbound
Mississippi 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sIn the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
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My Nephew Emmett
Mississippi The 1950sThis visually ravishing and thought-provoking work portrays one of the USA’s great shames—the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till by two white men in Mississippi—and movingly reminds us of this dark episode’s enduring relevance.
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Free State of Jones
Mississippi The 1940s The 1870s The 1860sIn 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.
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Don't Kill It
MississippiDemon hunter, Jebediah Huntley teams up with an FBI agent to battle a supernatural force in the southern state of Mississippi.
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The Sound and the Fury
Mississippi The 1900s The 1910s The 1920sMan is the sum of his misfortunes — A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.
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Dixieland
MississippiGet out while you can. — A young, recently-released and unpredictable ex-con with bad luck, and a sexy, listless girl-next-door with a troubled family, become trapped in a downward spiral of crime and obsessive love, as they try to ditch their dead-end town for a better life.
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Faith of Our Fathers
Mississippi The 1990s The 1960sA story of fatherhood. A journey of brotherhood. — With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty. A man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul (David A.R. White and Kevin Downes), meet as strangers. Guided by handwritten letters from their fathers from the battlefield, they embark on an unforgettable journey to The Wall-the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Along the way, they discover the devastation of war cannot break the love of a father for his son.
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Mud
Arkansas MississippiRunning from his past. Hiding from the law. Only one way out. — Two boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and form a pact to help him reunite with his lover and escape.
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Gideon's Army
Georgia MississippiEveryone deserves the best defense. They fight to provide it. — Follows three young, committed Public Defenders who are dedicated to working for the people society would rather forget. Long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads are so common that even the most committed often give up.
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Django Unchained
Mississippi Tennessee Texas The 1850sLife, liberty and the pursuit of vengeance. — With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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The Help
Mississippi The 1960sChange begins with a whisper. — Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
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Straw Dogs
MississippiEveryone Has A Breaking Point — L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife, Amy, to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
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Due Date
New Mexico Arizona California Texas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama GeorgiaLeave your comfort zone. — Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet and luggage are stolen, and put on the 'no-fly' list. Peter embarks on a terrifying journey when he accepts a ride from an actor.
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The Blind Side
Tennessee Mississippi KentuckyBased on the extraordinary true story — The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
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Mississippi Damned
Mississippi The 1980sWanting to escape was the easy part. — Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
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Witless Protection
Illinois MississippiProtecting America's assets. — The story centers on a small-town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue a woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big Enron-type corruption trial in Chicago but are later found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her
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Ballast
MississippiA single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway store owner, awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict.
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The Ladykillers
Mississippi The 1990sThe greatest criminal minds of all time have finally met their match. — An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
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