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10 Best Movies Like Attica

If you loved Attica, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Against the Wall

Against the Wall

1994★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Attica for fans of Drama & History & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions....

#2
Maze

Maze

2017★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Attica for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II....

#3
Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

1967★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Attica for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragli...

#4
Escape from Pretoria

Escape from Pretoria

2020★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Attica for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape ...

#5
Bronson

Bronson

2009★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Attica for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted ...

#6
The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment

2015★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Attica for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings...

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