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.

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

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

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and parol...

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...

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

Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In priso...

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among th...

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

Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mis...

The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's...

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood...

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aid...

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...

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

His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum...