Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)

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...

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

Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearb...

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

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sittin...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In priso...

An American priest working in Mexico is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due ...

A quiet man is abruptly arrested without explanation, thrust into a surreal legal nightmare where tr...

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...

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in o...

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after hi...

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the ...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among th...

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His...