Top Pennsylvania Movies / TV
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1.
Weird But True (2016–2020)
Episode:
Trains
(2020)
TV-G | Documentary, Family
Charlie and Carly visit Steamtown Pennsylvania to learn about locomotives.
Director: Brandon Gulish | Stars: Carly Ciarrocchi, Charlie Engelman, Bob Packo, Chris LaBar
2.
Weird But True (2016–2020)
Episode:
Kirby the Falconer
(2016)
TV-G | Documentary, Family
Kirby's lifelong dream of becoming a Falconer comes true thanks to a trip to Hershey, PA.
Stars: Charlie Engelman, Kirby Engelman, Rob Giroux, Jack Hubley
Votes: 8
3.
United Shades of America (2016–2022)
Episode:
Toxic America
(2019)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary, History, Reality-TV
Kamau visits Philadelphia and Chester, Pennsylvania to learn about the toxic man-made disasters that have polluted these communities for generations.
Star: W. Kamau Bell
Votes: 15
4.
United Shades of America (2016–2022)
Episode:
Where Do We Even Start With White Supremacy?
(2020)
Documentary, History, Reality-TV
W. Kamau Bell heads to Pittsburgh to take a deeper look into the damaging systemic applications of White supremacy.
Director: Morgan Fallon | Star: TM Garret
Votes: 33
5. Meltdown: Three Mile Island (2022)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, History
Insiders recount the events, controversies and lingering effects of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
Stars: Rick Parks, Nicole Remsburg, Paula Kinney, Joyce Corradi
Votes: 5,396
6.
Animated Hero Classics (1991–2005)
Episode:
Harriet Tubman
(1996)
30 min | Animation
Harriet Tubman has never known what it means to be free. Having been born and raised into slavery, she works hard and does as she is told. However, she longs to be free and hopes to escape ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Rich | Stars: Virginia Watson, William Dennis Hunt, Billy Mayo, Virginia Smith
Votes: 30
7. Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
PG-13 | 147 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, Biosyn operatives attempt to track down Maisie Lockwood, while Dr Ellie Sattler investigates a genetically engineered swarm of giant insects.
Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Sam Neill
Votes: 204,783 | Gross: $376.85M
8. Unstoppable (2010)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Thriller
With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee
Votes: 207,738 | Gross: $81.56M
9. Harriet (I) (2019)
PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Director: Kasi Lemmons | Stars: Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn
Votes: 30,708
10. Glory (1989)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 144,400 | Gross: $26.83M
11. The Express (2008)
PG | 130 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: Rob Brown, Dennis Quaid, Clancy Brown, Darrin Dewitt Henson
Votes: 22,867 | Gross: $9.59M
12. The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Samantha Caine lives in a small town with her daughter. Eight years ago she emerged, two months pregnant, from a nearby river with no memory of her past or who she is. However, she's getting closer to finding out about her past.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima, Craig Bierko
Votes: 85,659 | Gross: $33.33M
13. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer.
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Stars: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman
Votes: 138,263 | Gross: $6.74M
14. Fences (2016)
PG-13 | 139 min | Drama
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
Director: Denzel Washington | Stars: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo
Votes: 117,993 | Gross: $57.68M
15. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
R | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.
Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher
Votes: 203,093 | Gross: $234.76M
16. Remember the Titans (2000)
PG | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
In 1971 Virginia high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria. But when the school board was forced to integrate an all-black school with an all-white one, the very foundation of football's tradition was put to the test.
Director: Boaz Yakin | Stars: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst
Votes: 231,879 | Gross: $115.65M
17. The Peripheral (2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Set in the future when technology has subtly altered society, a woman discovers a secret connection to an alternate reality as well as a dark future of her own.
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Gary Carr, Jack Reynor, JJ Feild
Votes: 80,211
18. Wrong Turn (2021)
R | 109 min | Horror, Thriller
Friends hiking the Appalachian Trail are confronted by 'The Foundation', a community of people who have lived in the mountains for hundreds of years.
Director: Mike P. Nelson | Stars: Charlotte Vega, Adain Bradley, Bill Sage, Emma Dumont
Votes: 36,474
19. The League (2023)
PG | 103 min | Documentary, Sport
Based on the journey of the Negro Baseball League.
Director: Sam Pollard | Stars: Hank Aaron, Monte Irvin, Sam Pollard, Ernie Banks
Votes: 282
20. Jules (I) (2023)
PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Milton lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard.
Director: Marc Turtletaub | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Harriet Sansom Harris, Jane Curtin, Teddy Cañez
Votes: 10,626
21. Dumb Money (2023)
R | 105 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
David vs. Goliath tale about everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (the video-game store) into the world's hottest company.
Director: Craig Gillespie | Stars: Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, America Ferrera
Votes: 41,191
22. Blue Ridge (2020)
TV-PG | 87 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
A murder in a sleepy town at the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains shocks the community and refuels a longtime feud between two families.
Director: Brent Christy | Stars: Johnathon Schaech, Sarah Lancaster, Lara Silva, Ben Esler
Votes: 668
23. Rico to the Rescue (2023– )
Reality-TV
Rico León gets in to help Denver homeowners salvage renovations that have went off the rails; driven by his parents' past experience with a crooked contractor, he advocates for families who are in need of an expert to fix their stressful situations
Stars: Rico León, Poonam Moore, Matt Plowman, Sia Zadeh
Votes: 95
24.
Tulsa King (2022– )
Episode:
Go West, Old Man
(2022)
TV-MA | 41 min | Crime, Drama
Dwight, blindsided by the news that his mob family has nothing left for him in New York, is sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma; as he settles in and surveys his new surroundings, Dwight wastes no time making new associates.
Director: Allen Coulter | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Andrea Savage, Martin Starr, Jay Will
Votes: 3,688
25. American Rust (2021–2024)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama
A compelling family drama that explores the tattered American dream through the eyes of complicated and compromised Chief of Police Del Harris in a Rust Belt town in southwest Pennsylvania.
Stars: Jeff Daniels, Maura Tierney, David Alvarez, Julia Mayorga
Votes: 10,860
26. Franklin (2024– )
TV-MA | Biography, Drama, History
Explores the story of one of the greatest gambles of Franklin's career. At age 70, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies and French informers while engineering the Franco-American alliance of 1778.
Stars: Michael Douglas, Noah Jupe, Olivier Claverie, Marc Duret
Votes: 1,166
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