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Is the movie Mississippi Mermaid available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?

At Stream Tracker, we help you find where to watch François Truffaut’s Mississippi Mermaid (1969) — a smoky, sun-soaked thriller set on Réunion island where a tobacco planter’s life is upended by a mysterious correspondence. What begins as a chance romance through letters across the Indian Ocean turns into a dangerous masquerade when the woman who arrives doesn’t match her photograph, and marriage becomes a tense game of deception. Read on to see whether this Truffaut classic is streaming on Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video or AppleTV+.

Mississippi Mermaid

Synopsis

On the remote island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, a tobacco grower begins a relationship by letters with a Frenchwoman he has never met. When she finally arrives, she is nothing like the photograph he received, but he goes ahead and marries her anyway, forcing them both to face the gap between illusion and reality in their fragile new life together.

Release date

1969

Duration

2h 3min

Rating

Country

France, Italie

Genre(s)

Crime, Drame, Romance

Watch on which platform Mississippi Mermaid

Updated on 12/03/2026

Netflix

Not available

Disney+

Not available

Prime Video

Not available

Apple TV+

Not available

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