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.

Josef tries to survive and repent in prison. However, both authorities and inmates are curious about...

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his fam...

Women rebel against slave labor in a filthy jungle prison where they feed sugar cane to a mechanical...

Metamorphosis is a documentary-style film giving the true account Bill Troester and the transformati...

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.

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

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

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

An embittered penitentiary social worker receives an unwelcome blast from the past when the case fil...

In the spring of 2009 two Norwegian adventurers, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, are accused of k...

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...

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

California teen Anita Minteer struggles in the face of an absentee mother, her mom's abusive boyfrie...

The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexuall...

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery char...

A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life...

During a 10-year sentence for murdering the leader of a rival South Central Los Angeles gang, Bobby ...

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