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.

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

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...

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros...

Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcera...

A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away...

Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Du...

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

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...

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...

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...

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