Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen...

An American bandleader woos a Brazilian beauty who is already engaged to his employer. His friends...

A convicted racketeer becomes prison trustee when an inmate whom he persuaded to escape is killed.

Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biologi...

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

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

San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor ...

Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an ...

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Polic...

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Mei...

A man convicted of killing his own father and sister escapes from a long-stay criminal hospital to t...

When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug tra...

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,...

In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to dec...

Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby Fre...

Rio de Janeiro. Confronted with the violence that exists in the favela where he lives, Tiago sees th...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...