A quintessential 1970s story, devoid of unequivocal good guys and replete with public and private turmoil.

Rating: 10/10 (14 September 2010)

Two robbers (Al Pacino and John Cazale) are besieged in a New York bank after their heist, the takings of which were to pay for a sex-change operation, goes badly wrong. The film was nominated for several Academy Awards and Golden Globe awards, and won one Academy Award.
Dog Day Afternoon is a recreation of a tragi-comic episode from the newspaper headlines; a largely fascinating and acutely observed film, with Pacino in peak form. The film ranks 443rd on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. In 2009, it was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant and will be preserved for all time.