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 captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convict...

A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troub...

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery char...

Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life ra...

When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, t...

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen y...

Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later dep...

Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Du...

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...

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla a...

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter pri...

The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of c...

When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes ...

Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting...

In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious do...

Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is pa...

200 young people under 25 have died in custody since 1992 in England and Wales. This is the story of...

When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and do...