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.

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...

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...

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...

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane lif...

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...

Five star (hotel) is a sarcastic reference to the Pretoria prison which is central to the plot. An...

Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. Wh...

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father...

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

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

Based on the true story of three Christian prisoners who face execution in a third world country and...

The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they ...

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...

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his g...