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.

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A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father...

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

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The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially...

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and parol...

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...

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

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...

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing ...

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....

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...