84 Films & TV Shows Set In Mississippi
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Mississippi Burning
Mississippi The 1960s1964. When America was at war with itself. — 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.
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Biloxi Blues
Mississippi The 1940sThe Army made Eugene a man. But Daisy gave him basic training! — During the Second World War, Eugene enlists in the US Army during the last year of the War and is sent to basic training in Biloxi Mississippi. There he must live with a variety of fellow soldiers while enduring the whims of a mentally unstable drill sergeant.
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Crossroads
Mississippi New York The 1980sWhere second best never gets a second chance. — A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.
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Crimes of the Heart
MississippiMeg just left one. Lenny never had one. Babe just shot one. The MaGrath sisters sure have a way with men. — Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it in Hollywood as a singer/actress, has had a wild life filled with many men. Their reunion causes much joy, but also many tensions.
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Hollywood Zap
California MississippiStory of two friends, one searching for his father, the other searching for the ultimate sexual video game competition.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
MississippiBrick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Mississippi The 1960sThis film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community.
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Private Benjamin
Mississippi 🇧🇪 BelgiumThe Army was no laughing matter until Judy Benjamin joined it. — A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
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The Jerk
Mississippi Missouri The 1970sA rags to riches to rags story. — After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
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Smokey and the Bandit
Arkansas Texas Mississippi Alabama GeorgiaWhat we have here is a total lack of respect for the law! — A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.
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Ode to Billy Joe
Mississippi The 1950sWhat the song didn't tell you, the movie will. — Billy Joe confesses his love to the lovely Bobbi Lee only to cover his growing fear that he may, in fact, be homosexual. One night, at a barn dance, he gets a little drunk and rather than going with the hired whores, gives into his desires and sexual relations with an unnamed man. The guilt causes him to run away, hide in the woods and eventually confess everything to Bobbi Lee who doesn't want to believe him only because she was enjoying the forbidden nature of their love. In the end, he cannot accept his sexuality nor can he hide behind Bobbi Lee and that's why he throws himself off the Tallahachee bridge.
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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Mississippi The 1960sAfter three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.
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Thieves Like Us
Mississippi The 1930sRobbing 36 banks was easy. Watch what happens when they hit the 37th. — Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes refuge with the daughter of the gas station attendant, Keechie. They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowie's refusal to turn his back on crime. The film is based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. The novel is also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.
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… tick… tick… tick…
MississippiTwo men with nothing in common but the hate that surrounds them. — Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
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The Reivers
Mississippi The 1900sBoon is a reiver (that's a cheat, a liar, a brawler and womaniser) and he had just four days to teach young Lucius the facts of life (like cheating, lying, brawling and womanizing). — In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
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In the Heat of the Night
MississippiThey got a murder on their hands. They don’t know what to do with it. — An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
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This Property Is Condemned
Mississippi The 1930sIt's all prime property! — A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to escape Alva's mother's (Hazel) clutches and the town's revenge.
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Summer and Smoke
Mississippi The 1910sIn a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door. A 1961 film, adapted from a Tennessee Williams play, starring Geraldine Page, Laurence Harvey, John McIntire, Una Merkel and Rita Moreno.
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Sanctuary
Mississippi The 1920sFrom the Nobel Prize winner...the unadorned truth about the governor's daughter...seared by the fires of her desperate desires...tormented by the new-found emotions within her... — In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
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The Fugitive Kind
Louisiana MississippiWith a guitar and a snake skin jacket he drifted out of the rain...and into the lives of these two women... — Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
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The Horse Soldiers
Mississippi The 1860sJohn Ford's Thundering Spectacle — A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
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The Sound and the Fury
MississippiDrama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
MississippiJust one pillow on her bed... and just one desire in her heart. — An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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The Long, Hot Summer
MississippiThe red-hot lowdown on a southern family...that people talked about in whispers! — Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.
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Tammy and the Bachelor
MississippiAll about a little Mississippi riverboat gal who taught a sophisticated bachelor about love! — An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.
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