Drama set in San Quentin prison.

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and parol...

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after hi...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. Wh...

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His...

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift ...

Five star (hotel) is a sarcastic reference to the Pretoria prison which is central to the plot. An...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros...

Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcera...

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his...

Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the ...

In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing proj...

Eddie Lomax is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny....