Movies like Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
The best movies like Mississippi Mermaid (1969) are Purple Noon (1960), Shoot the Piano Player (1960) and Two English Girls (1971). If Mississippi Mermaid hooked you with its romance and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLe Samouraï (1967)7.8/10 from 1,339 votes
- NewestRead My Lips (2001)Released 2001
- In FrenchPurple Noon (1960)Also in French
Purple Noon (1960)
Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisShoot the Piano Player (1960)
Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTwo English Girls (1971)
In the early 20th-century, Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her family home, intending him for her sister Muriel. Claude falls for Muriel, but families demand year-long separation before approving marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Unfaithful Wife (1969)
A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJules and Jim (1962)
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Bride Wore Black (1968)
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home with the intent to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Soft Skin (1964)
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1972)
Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is writing a thesis on criminal women, so he visits Camille Bliss in prison for an interview. Accused of murdering her husband and her lover, Camille recounts her life and love affairs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStolen Kisses (1968)
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBreathless (1960)
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Sicilian Clan (1969)
An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWedding in Blood (1973)
In a small French town, the mayor discovers his wife is cheating on him, a betrayal that eventually leads to murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCasque d'Or (1952)
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisElevator to the Gallows (1958)
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPierrot le Fou (1965)
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisViolette Nozière (1978)
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLe Samouraï (1967)
After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLes Biches (1968)
A bored bisexual millionaire picks up a young destitute street artist and whisks her away to her villa in Saint Tropez. They meet a dashing local architect and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLe Doulos (1962)
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Apartment (1996)
Max is a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However, when Max catches a glimpse of the great lost love of his life, he becomes obsessed with rekindling their relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBay of Angels (1963)
A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Story of Adèle H. (1975)
In the 19th century a mysterious woman named Adele H. crosses the ocean, from Europe to North America, to relentlessly pursue a handsome officer that denies her satisfaction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDiva (1981)
Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following day, Jules runs into a woman who is being pursued by armed thugs. Before she is killed, the woman slips an audio cassette into his mail bag...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Metro (1980)
In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Butcher (1970)
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDevil in the Flesh (1947)
In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dalliance before marrying Jacques. Jealous François struggles with the fact that Marthe is married, while she tries to prove her devotion to her young, hotheaded lover. Things become even more complex when Marthe becomes pregnant with Jacques' baby.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Read My Lips (2001)
She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisConfidentially Yours (1983)
After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent goes on the lam while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mississippi Mermaid?
The closest matches to Mississippi Mermaid are Purple Noon (1960), Shoot the Piano Player (1960) and Two English Girls (1971). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mississippi Mermaid?
People who watched Mississippi Mermaid most often go on to Purple Noon (1960), Shoot the Piano Player (1960) and Two English Girls (1971).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mississippi Mermaid?
Le Samouraï (1967), rated 7.8/10 by 1,339 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mississippi Mermaid?
Read My Lips (2001) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Mississippi Mermaid?
Yes: Purple Noon (1960), Shoot the Piano Player (1960) and Two English Girls (1971).
How are movies similar to Mississippi Mermaid chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mississippi Mermaid, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.