In May of 1946, Alcatraz inmate Bernie Coy initiates a carefully thought out plan to escape the island prison. His plan, carried out with five accomplices, falls apart when they can't obtain a key to unlock a door leading to the yard.

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

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

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

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...

Imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces a government execution during a future American Revoluti...

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma...

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

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...

After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigne...

In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is r...

Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In priso...

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among th...

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...

Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mis...

The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's...

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood...

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aid...

Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting...