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.

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla a...

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter pri...

The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of c...

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

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...

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...

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's sh...

When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes ...

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

In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the...

A support program brings the two convicts Gerd and Steinbock into the care of women. There they are ...

Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulat...

When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and do...

Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is pa...

Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting...

In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious do...

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...