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 quiet man is abruptly arrested without explanation, thrust into a surreal legal nightmare where tr...

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutall...

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

After serving a jail sentence, Hasan gets a job driving a hearse for the protestant church, and beco...

During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder ...

Now serving a life sentence for murder, James "Animal" Allen returns to fighting for cash in order t...

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international ...

After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by...

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to strug...

Halil is a teenage boy, son of a poor porter, and sees him dying when serving a man without compassi...

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Brita...

An 18-year-old man, living on a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs ...

Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Prote...

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a deter...

A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local fun...

Pedro Che is a carefree taxi driver who advises his friends Sebastián and Artemio, politically commi...

When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to p...

In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing proj...

Eddie Lomax is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny....

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