An embittered penitentiary social worker receives an unwelcome blast from the past when the case file of his father, a convicted murderer who has been emotionally broken by prison life, lands on his desk.

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 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...

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

Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team.

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

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...

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...

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

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...

Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps inte...

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 ...

The story of Quincy Bosomfield who is the product of colonial education and has risen to become the ...

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