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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

After being released from a mental hospital, a troubled young man tracks down an actress he once had...

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...

After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and Cali...

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