In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a leg wound. He now makes her a prisoner in her own home. Almost without a word, as if she secretly enjoys the excitement or just mesmerized, she obeys Vassily, every single command, even sexual services, submissively or after a symbolic struggle. Somehow that seems to change, but can force initiate love?

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...

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

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and parol...

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

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...

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...

Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's sh...

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resol...

A support program brings the two convicts Gerd and Steinbock into the care of women. There they are ...

Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulat...

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman livi...

In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing proj...

Eddie Lomax is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny....