The plot revolves around three men waiting to be deported in a prison. To escape the monotony, they form chess pieces from their bread rations, with which they then play against each other. Grünstein, a Polish Jew, proves to be a real talent, because although he is a beginner, he manages to defeat even the experienced player Lodeck, a German sailor, with his "Grünstein Variant".
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a deter...
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local fun...
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of th...
After serving a jail sentence, Hasan gets a job driving a hearse for the protestant church, and beco...
Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienati...
A renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.
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...
Raymond Lembecke is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss T...
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whe...
A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "aut...
Almost casually, the young concrete worker Bastian kills a tramp. The police believe it was an accid...
Jorge is a young man whose plans for the future are put on hold when his father has a stroke. For se...
Shangrao Concentration Camp is set in the hellish confines of a Guomindang prison, where the brutal ...
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre...
The stage of this work is Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo in the early Heisei period. Immediately after t...
A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postw...
A support program brings the two Kanckis Gerd and Steinbock into the care of women. There they are s...
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulat...