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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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...

Hamza, a powerful county landowner killed a hardworking villager named Ahmet. Soon after this incide...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

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

The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced...

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

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 quiet man is abruptly arrested without explanation, thrust into a surreal legal nightmare where tr...

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...

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

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A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being releas...