"Bob" finds himself in “the zone“ by chance. At first - as a guard. But life in the zone on both sides of the bars is extremely dreary. So "Bob" and his friends drown out the boredom with vodka and local booze, continuing with riots and fights. But at one point, such lawlessness pisses off the chief, and "Bob" is sent to serve his sentence for the brig. And he must be escorted by... by his best drinking buddy "Fidel". For twenty-four hours former colleagues get to the place of detention. But to get to the brig "Bob" is not destined....

Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Du...

Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime afte...

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...

An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship...

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witt...

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...

When Martin, a former GDR citizen, is released from jail, he lately becomes confronted with the cons...

Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. Wh...

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 ...

Adriano is an honest prison guard who is averse to violence. He tries to keep the prison peaceful, e...

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

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

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

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

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