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 doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a deter...
A young Nigerian student and poet, abused and neglected by his cruel stepmother, finds solace in fri...
A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
California teen Anita Minteer struggles in the face of an absentee mother, her mom's abusive boyfrie...
An embittered penitentiary social worker receives an unwelcome blast from the past when the case fil...
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in...
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among th...
Ervin, an ex con man, is released from prison to find his old pal Micky waiting for him. The 75 year...
A young pickpocket is taken in by an attorney who attempts to 'civilize' her.
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Brita...
Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In priso...
A boy grows up not knowing his real identity. One day a mysterious lady, claiming to be his real mot...
A story depicting the life of executed murderer and gang leader, Marciál "Baby" Ama. Ama, who becam...
David Aldrich aspires to be an author. The publishers reject most of his manuscripts because they se...
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
Hamza, a powerful county landowner killed a hardworking villager named Ahmet. Soon after this incide...
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and...