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 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...

Despite her parents' misgivings, Brianne marries Clay, and the couple soon have a daughter. It's the...

In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

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...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

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...

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

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Val...

The men in prison are frustrated and in agony. It's difficult because the desires of these men are c...

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...

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

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

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