In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.

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...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

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

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

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

An American priest working in Mexico is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due ...

A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away...

After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the ...

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially...

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...

Hamza, a powerful county landowner killed a hardworking villager named Ahmet. Soon after this incide...

About Murat's struggle for his family, who got into trouble because of his brother Kemal. As Murat t...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father...

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

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being releas...