In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...

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

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...

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

A guard prevents the inmate's escape from the prison. During his second attempt, the inmate decides ...

Inspired by true events, "Dreptate în lanturi" is a rough and poetic film, whose action is placed at...

A former resident of the town of Peyton Place, now wealthy and powerful, secretly returns to the tow...

Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time ...

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security...

A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-countr...

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery...

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner...

The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into...

An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law,...

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Micha...

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros...

The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life t...

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...

Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all...