Five star (hotel) is a sarcastic reference to the Pretoria prison which is central to the plot. An inmate Skollie (A nickname meaning delinquent) escapes from jail with one desire, to be united with his son again. Life outside is much different to what Skollie remembers. Still behind bars are inmates Pappa, Priester and Polka, who are doing everything to prevent Skollie from being reunited with his son, even if that means they have to kill. Skollie discovers that Pappa might be responsible for the death of his mother and he vows revenge.

Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Cl...

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments...

A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the...

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...

Five inmates break out of a remote minimum security prison for women. Four are hardened convicts, th...

Marlon is visiting her mother in jail for the first time since her imprisonment.

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of th...

Two young crooks steal fabric, which is of course sorely missed. In addition to the former owners, a...

Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sent...

A crime boss goes searching for his ex-wife and son after a ten-year prison stint. His old gang has ...

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't s...

Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biologi...
Career criminal Eddy gets sent to prison for raping a country girl and while in jail indulges in hom...

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which ...

Pedro Che is a carefree taxi driver who advises his friends Sebastián and Artemio, politically commi...

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

Josef tries to survive and repent in prison. However, both authorities and inmates are curious about...

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

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.