Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.

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

Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcera...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in p...

The film tells the story of a convict who fights against the injustice of prison management. Arap Ka...

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

After being released from a mental hospital, a troubled young man tracks down an actress he once had...

An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor H...

Kim Hyun-pil, an orphan, gets caught for picking pockets. At the police station, he causes trouble f...

A teenage girl is held captive in the home of a wealthy family. She is befriended by the family's yo...

After serving a jail sentence, Hasan gets a job driving a hearse for the protestant church, and beco...

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Val...

A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for hi...

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his...

Four female cons who have formed a band in prison get a chance to play at a police ball outside the ...

A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughe...

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years....

Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, ha...