Movies Like Mississippi Mermaid

If you liked Mississippi Mermaid (1969), a romance and drama movie directed by François Truffaut, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Hot Spot (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and crime
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
2
The Last Seduction (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and crime
A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.
3
Original Sin (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and drama
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
4
The Piano (1993)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged…
5
The Blue Lagoon (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and…
6
Killer Heat (2024)
★ 5.8/10Also crime and drama
An expat PI is hired to investigate a suspicious death in Crete, Greece, where jealousies run deep amongst the victim's powerful family.
7
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and romance
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
8
The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama
Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a romantic pen pal in Ray Fernandez. Martha falls hard for Ray, and is intent on sticking with him even when she discovers…
9
In a Lonely Place (1950)
★ 7.6/10Also thriller and drama
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
10
Mandingo (1975)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and drama
Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he…
11
In Secret (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching…
12
Lonely Hearts (2006)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller
In the late 1940s, a murderous couple known as the 'The Lonely Hearts Killers' kills close to a dozen people. Two detectives try to nab the duo who find their targets via the personals in the paper.
13
The Shipping News (2001)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
14
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
15
Nightmare Alley (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
16
Addicted (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller
A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
17
Body Heat (1981)
★ 7/10Also thriller and crime
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
18
One Deadly Summer (1983)
★ 7/10Also drama and crime
Shortly after Elle Wieck moves to a small French village, she begins dating Pin-Pon, a quiet young mechanic who has grown obsessed with the beautiful newcomer. But Elle has her own reason for the relationship...
19
The Burning Plain (2008)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance
A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is…
20
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic…