17-year-old Yu Gwan-Sun participates in the Korean independence movement. The country is under the rule of Japan, which annexed the country in 1910.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants t...

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros...

After her release from prison Alex, who has lost her faith in love, tries to reclaim her psychic bal...

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her o...

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her ...

An elderly bell maker reminisces about his life filled with tragedy.

In an Edo-era women's prison, Ochiyo manages to escape execution during a fire and becomes determine...

Kim Chang-su, who participated in the Donghak Movement, escapes to Manchuria after being chased by t...

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...

Jeong-hye gives a birth to a baby boy in the prison. Her and other inmates create a women's choir to...

Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island pris...

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

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

A shackled murderer and marijuana offender escape from a Georgia chain gang.

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

A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a ...

At the end of the Joseon Dynasty, shortly after the Eulsa Treaty has been forced to be concluded by ...