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 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...

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane lif...

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a la...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

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

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His...

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift ...

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...

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 chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Thro...

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her o...

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resol...

After being transferred from juvenile to adult prison, Mel Blight is taken under the wing of both Ma...

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