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.

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...

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...

When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and do...

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

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...

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...

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a la...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

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

Nicholas is the eldest son of a wealthy suburban family, whose businesswoman mother makes deals from...

A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards...

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

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resol...