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 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 ...

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 disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

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

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...

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

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her ...

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is...

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witt...

It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing t...

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 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...