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

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Thro...

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in o...

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cel...

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 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 ...

A heartfelt depiction of a man facing his own mortality while reflecting on the grave mistakes of hi...

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

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...

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

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

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 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 ...