Riot

Jan 15, 1969

1h 36m

★ 5.2

They exploded the ugliest riot in prison history to cover their dangerous, desperate break for freedom.

Overview

A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Thriller

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

William Castle Productions

Riot Trailers

Cast

Cully Briston

Jim Brown

Red Fraker

Gene Hackman

Bugsy

Mike Kellin

Grossman

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

"Surefoot"

Ben Carruthers

Mary Sheldon

Clifford David

Jake

Bill Walker

Murray

Michael Byron

Fisk

Jerry Thompson

Gravel Gertie

Ricky Summers

Queen #1

Mr. Gerri

Queen #2

John Neiderhauser

After stealing a fortune in unclaimed jewelry, ex-detective Barney Rickert arrives at a run-down dude ranch in Arizona to hide out. When the owner, Dewey Hoople, refuses to sell the land to Rickert, he proceeds to win over the female inhabitants by seducing them one by one which leads to one refusing his advances and a dangerous game played out in which Rickert ruthlessly sets out to get what he wants.

7.2

Arizona Dream

Jan 6, 1993

An Inuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles.

6.3

Foxfire

Jul 13, 1955

A part-Indian mining engineer looks for gold in an Arizona ghost town with his socialite bride.

6.5

Hamburg Altona

Jan 1, 1989

Three prisoners, Combe from Rijeka, Menso from Bosnia, and Bogart from Belgrade, escape from prison. Their final destination is the city of their dreams - Hamburg. They temporarily part ways and agree to meet at the train station in Zagreb. First, each of them goes to his hometown. From there on, we follow three separate stories. In the first, Combe, in the shady harbor district of Rijeka, tries to get back at his former crime partner, Mrvi, who turned him in to the police. In the second story, we witness Mensa's relationship with his wife Riza and their children in a small Bosnian village. The third story depicts Bogart's love affair with a young teacher in a Belgrade suburb. Afterwards, at the train station in Zagreb, Bogart finds out from the newspaper that the police caught his friends. At the last minute, he changes the original plan.

7.0

Pump Up the Volume

Aug 22, 1990

Mark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for a teen committing suicide, the students clash with high school faculty and the authorities.

5.9

Maze

Sep 22, 2017

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.

7.4

My Darling Clementine

Oct 17, 1946

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.

6.3

Bandits

Oct 12, 2001

After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated when they meet Kate, who runs into them with her car. She joins the bandits on their cross-country spree, and eventually she steals something, too: their hearts.

6.7

The Longest Yard

May 27, 2005

Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of prison guards. Crewe suggests a tune-up game which lands him quarterbacking a crew of inmates in a game against the guards. Aided by incarcerated ex-NFL coach and player Nate Scarborough, Crewe and his team must overcome not only the bloodthirstiness of the opposition, but also the corrupt warden trying to fix the game against them.

5.7

Drop Zone

Dec 8, 1994

A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.

7.0

Raising Arizona

Mar 13, 1987

When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

6.2

Rejects

Jul 30, 2021

Guns, cash and four friends who have the wrong idea at the wrong time.

0.0

The Highway

Sep 17, 1913

Prison break. A murderer seeks refuge inside a barn.

7.9

A Man Escaped

Nov 11, 1956

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

6.6

In Hell

Nov 24, 2003

A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.

7.1

The Petrified Forest

Feb 8, 1936

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

7.0

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Dec 9, 1974

After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.