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.

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 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...

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being releas...

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

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially...

After being released from a mental hospital, a troubled young man tracks down an actress he once had...

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

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...

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane lif...

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...

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

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...