Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "attica"

1. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

R | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar

Votes: 273,064 | Gross: $50.00M

2. Pain & Gain (2013)

R | 129 min | Action, Biography, Comedy

A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Tony Shalhoub

Votes: 229,340 | Gross: $49.88M

3. He Got Game (1998)

R | 136 min | Drama, Sport

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Milla Jovovich, Ray Allen, Rosario Dawson

Votes: 51,451 | Gross: $21.55M

4. The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)

G | 77 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The Chipmunks compete with the Chipettes in a round-the-world race.

Director: Janice Karman | Stars: Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Janice Karman, Dody Goodman, Susan Tyrrell

Votes: 5,969 | Gross: $6.80M

5. Against the Wall (1994 TV Movie)

R | 111 min | Action, Drama, History

Based on the true story of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Samuel L. Jackson, Clarence Williams III, Frederic Forrest

Votes: 3,283

6. Never on Sunday (1960)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, Giorgos Foundas, Titos Vandis

Votes: 6,147

7. The Other Me (2016)

101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A professor of criminology tries to solve five completely unrelated murders whose only link is quotes from Pythagoras.

Director: Sotiris Tsafoulias | Stars: Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Dimitris Katalifos, Manos Vakousis, Ioanna Kolliopoulou

Votes: 12,662

8. Attica (2021)

TV-MA | 116 min | Documentary, History

This unnervingly vivid dive into the 1971 uprising from Emmy® winning director Stanley Nelson sheds new light on the enduring violence and racism of the prison system and highlights the urgent, ongoing need for reform 50 years later.

Directors: Traci Curry, Stanley Nelson | Stars: Arthur Harrison, Carlos Roche, Tyrone Larkins, George Che Nieves

Votes: 3,079

9. The Giant of Marathon (1959)

90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.

Directors: Jacques Tourneur, Bruno Vailati, Mario Bava | Stars: Steve Reeves, Mylène Demongeot, Sergio Fantoni, Alberto Lupo

Votes: 1,076

10. The Red Lanterns (1963)

132 min | Drama, Romance

The inextricably intertwined stories of five women who work as prostitutes just before the ban on brothels in Troumba.

Director: Vasilis Georgiadis | Stars: Jenny Karezi, Giorgos Foundas, Dimitris Papamichael, Manos Katrakis

Votes: 2,024

11. The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984)

237 min | Drama, History, Sport

This movie describes the founding of the modern Olympics and concentrates on the creation of the American team and their trials in getting to the Olympics in Athens.

Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Hunt Block, David Caruso, Alex Hyde-White

Votes: 434

12. Attica (1980 TV Movie)

97 min | Drama

The true story of the events leading up to and during the 1971 Attica Correctional Facility riot and the aftermath.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Henry Darrow, Charles Durning, Joel Fabiani, Morgan Freeman

Votes: 541

13. The Ogre of Athens (1956)

103 min | Crime, Drama

A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large. He briefly and reluctantly rules the underworld until they realize their mistake.

Director: Nikos Koundouros | Stars: Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Giannis Argyris, Thanasis Vengos

Votes: 2,195

14. The Last Note (2017)

Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, History, War

The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters and Communists by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.

Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Andreas Konstantinou, André Hennicke, Melia Kreiling, Tasos Dimas

Votes: 3,328

15. The Weather Underground (2002)

Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, History, War

The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.

Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel | Stars: Lili Taylor, Pamela Z, Jim Lange, Evan White

Votes: 3,769 | Gross: $0.56M

16. The Big House (1998– )

Documentary

History channel goes inside some of the toughest prisons in America

Stars: Paul Sorvino, Jim Perry, George Kelly, Robert Stroud

Votes: 46

17. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, History

Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish filmmaker.

Director: Göran Hugo Olsson | Stars: Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Abiodun Oyewole

Votes: 2,497 | Gross: $0.26M

18. Lola (1964)

104 min | Drama

Betrayed by his accomplices, Aris, the fastest knife in Troumba, reunites with his true love, Lola. Now, a mean cabaret owner wants him dead, and he must tie up all the loose ends. But, is there an easy way out from the port of lost souls?

Director: Dinos Dimopoulos | Stars: Jenny Karezi, Nikos Kourkoulos, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Pantelis Zervos

Votes: 754

19. Little City (1997)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

San Francisco is a little city, where you keep running into the same 6 people, here 5 around 30 y.o. and a cougar on the prowl for young women, all going in and out of relationships.

Director: Roberto Benabib | Stars: Jon Bon Jovi, Penelope Ann Miller, Joe Bellan, Robert Elross

Votes: 1,138

20. William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2009)

Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary

The life of the great American lawyer and advocate for the political underdog, William Kunstler.

Directors: Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler | Stars: Herman Badillo, Harry Belafonte, Clyde Bellecourt, Daniel Berrigan

Votes: 342 | Gross: $0.06M

21. Ghosts of Attica (2001)

90 min | Documentary

Documentary about Attica prison riot and lawsuits to get compensation for the victims of these events.

Director: Brad Lichtenstein | Star: Susan Sarandon

Votes: 56

22. The Attica (2008)

25 min | Short, Fantasy

The Attica world for the insane. Those who who have not lost their sanity will soon have it taken from them once they step into this world. Our story is only one of many tales. A man named ... See full summary »

Director: Nathan Letteer | Stars: Omid Dastán Harrison, Shane Hoffman, Shale Le Page, Heidi Rowan

Votes: 14

23. Death of a Beatle (2001 TV Movie)

88 min | Documentary

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Stars: Pete Best, Harvey Goldsmith, Bob Gruen, George Harrison

Votes: 33

24. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: Son of Sam Part 2: I Am A Monster (2020)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

In 1977, the city of New York was being stalked by a seemingly faceless serial killer known as, "Son of Sam"; after his final shooting took him to Brooklyn, a twist of fate and a little luck- led to his capture.

Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Jeff Kamen, Casey Jordan, Patrick Breslin

Votes: 29

25. The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness (2021)
Episode: The Ultimate Evil (2021)

TV-MA | 58 min | Documentary, Crime, History

New leads send Maury down a twisted path, investigating a web of cults. As a "satanic panic" grips the nation, he publishes a book.

Director: Joshua Zeman | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Maury Terry, Frank Anthony, David Berkowitz

Votes: 617

26. Gordon, Gino & Fred's Road Trip (2018– )
Episode: Clash of Three Titans (2021)

Adventure, Comedy, Reality-TV

The boys conclude their Greek adventure in Athens where they race in an ancient Olympic stadium, visit a bio-dynamic vineyard, sample liquid Greek salad cocktails, visit bee-keeping nuns and go truffle hunting with dogs in Meteora.

Director: Ben Archard | Stars: Gordon Ramsay, Gino D'Acampo, Fred Sirieix, Maria Polyzou

Votes: 69

27. The Century: America's Time (1999– )
Episode: 1971-1975: Approaching the Apocalypse (1999)

Not Rated | Documentary

From Nixon's inauguration to his resignation, this episode details the developments in the American psyche from the first moon landing to the end of the Vietnam war and beyond to disco and Attica and the Watergate scandal.

Director: Roger Goodman | Stars: Spiro Agnew, Buzz Aldrin, Stephen Ambrose, Neil Armstrong

28. The Empire Files (2015– )
Episode: Enter the Biggest Prison System in History (2015)

Documentary, News, Talk-Show

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Stars: Eddie Conway, Abby Martin, Eugene Puryear

Votes: 17