MISSISSIPPI RIVER THEMED MOVIES

The Help
2011
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently los...
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues ...
Mississippi Burning
1988
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence ...
A Time to Kill
1996
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a reb...
Life
1999
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not co...
Secret Window
2004
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a ps...
The Straight Story
1999
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stro...
Maverick
1994
Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a...
The Cure
1995
Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and...
The Little Mermaid
2018
A young reporter and his niece discover a beautiful and enchanting creature they believe to be the real little mermaid.
The Defiant Ones
1958
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Biloxi Blues
1988
Eugene, an aspiring writer from Brooklyn, is drafted into the US Army during the final months of World War II. For his b...
Mud
2013
Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover an...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real fee...
The Beguiled
1971
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the Sout...
Red Dirt
2000
At only twenty, Griffith is struggling with the responsibilities of caring for his unwell aunt, grieving the loss of the...
Mudbound
2017
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape...
My Dog Skip
2000
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for h...
Mississippi Masala
1991
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run...
Down in the Delta
1998
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in t...