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...

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...

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

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in p...

The film tells the story of a convict who fights against the injustice of prison management. Arap Ka...

Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time ...

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security...

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

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years....

Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, ha...

François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely im...

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his...

Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the ...

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make a...

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down lif...