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

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...

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the ...

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

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

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

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane lif...

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...

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

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...

The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced...

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a wo...

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...

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

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...