Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As in the outside world, there is a "system"; and just as on the outside, there is accommodation, honesty, cynicism, violence and all the other factors that make up our society. The film follows the three newcomers, it records the grim, terrifying, sometimes fascinating events that occur.
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A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...
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Two prostitutes in a small corrupt South American town, falls in love with a freedom fighter, posing...