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.

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienati...

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments...

Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Prote...

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

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

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security...

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his...

Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the ...

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make a...

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down lif...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

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...

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

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

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...

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

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

Joselito is a mentally-challenged man who is wrongfully charged with sexually assaulting and murderi...