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 World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...

Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Cl...

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienati...

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 193...
Career criminal Eddy gets sent to prison for raping a country girl and while in jail indulges in hom...

Marlon is visiting her mother in jail for the first time since her imprisonment.

Five inmates break out of a remote minimum security prison for women. Four are hardened convicts, th...

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

Two young crooks steal fabric, which is of course sorely missed. In addition to the former owners, a...

Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sent...

A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has ...

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of th...

As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade popu...

A young girl discovers the truth regarding the secrets of her past. Just as she discovers the truth,...

A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the...

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments...

After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want ...

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. E...

A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for g...