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 17 year old boy is sent to an adult prison for robbing a Fotomat with a toy gun. He thinks he's go...

When World War II breaks out, two German lovers are cruelly separated. While he is sent to fight at ...

Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss T...

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 193...

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

Marlon is visiting her mother in jail for the first time since her imprisonment.

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

A midwife is caught in a snowstorm on the way to Anatolia and forced to spend four months in an isol...

Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Cl...

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

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. E...

After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want ...

When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to p...

A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for g...

Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough fr...

A story about friendship and moral dilemmas. Young people yearn for a better future in developing co...

A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.

The story of South Boy. Caught up in a life of crime, he finds himself doing time in Federal Prison.

A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the...