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 young Nigerian student and poet, abused and neglected by his cruel stepmother, finds solace in fri...

Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, bu...

In this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He ...

In a dystopian nation where people's lives are determined based on 3 phases, a 13-year-old living in...

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

In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious do...

When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and do...

The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Nat...

Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is pa...

For the third time, HBO cameras go inside Trenton State Maximum Security Prison--and inside the mind...

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

Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So i...

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 ...

Almost casually, the young concrete worker Bastian kills a tramp. The police believe it was an accid...

Jorge is a young man whose plans for the future are put on hold when his father has a stroke. For se...

Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a hig...

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years....

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