A young man is sentenced to prison for a term of eight years, yet he's allowed out if he promises not to get married for those eight years, lest he be forced to complete his sentence behind bars. He goes to live on an old ship in the harbor with an old sea captain. One day a homeless girl is fished out of the water and brought to live on the boat, soon marrying the young man. All is well until his parole officer finds out.

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...
Billie is the "little mother" of the family and cares for the two smaller children. Her father has f...

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

Assuming the worst Geoffrey Challoner impulsively storms out of the house when he sees his new wife ...

Rosemary van Voort lives in the countryside with her elderly Dutch parents. The wooden dolls she car...

A mountain girl with an army-hating father, meets a handsome army captain, who teaches her how to lo...

In their small-minded New England village Liz and her alcoholic father are rejected by the townspeop...

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

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 $5,000 wager is made between two prominent jewelers, Mr. Thorpe and Mr. Chandler, as to whether th...

Broadway star Mona Mainard retires from the stage for marriage to rising attorney John Norton and wa...
David Clary runs a sleepy little dry-goods store in a sleepy little town. A vamp from the big city s...

When Arthur Gilpin, a black night watchman, finds young Myrtle Gunsaulus mysteriously murdered in th...

Myrtle Downing, an African-American woman, is coerced into marrying a corrupt would-be politician na...
Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a...

A young black Harvard graduate fights against a variety of obstacles, including racist opposition, i...

A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away...