When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

Five unrelated tales: (1) "The Ravishing Queen" / "La Reina Bella", in which the queen choses a king...

A prim psychology professor fights to hide a murder she committed in self-defense.

Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and st...

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found sh...

An adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zainab, a peasa...

When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written...

Five inmates break out of a remote minimum security prison for women. Four are hardened convicts, th...

Fresh out of prison, all Ray wants is to get back with Lacy, but she's in a stable relationship now ...

Currito, raised in a Seville hospice, ekes out a living while trying to become a bullfighter.

In the 1980s, the building themes were transformed into bipolar moral dilemmas involving overly ambi...

A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for g...

A deranged prison warden with a nasty habit of killing escapees forces the boyfriends of his teenage...

Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough fr...

After losing her job, a single mom falls into a lucrative but ultimately dangerous scheme selling pr...

Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her pos...

The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear dest...

After spending two years in prison, framed for accepting a bribe, former newspaper reporter Harry Ba...

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...

Missie three years later: being a single mother after her husband Willie was shot during a poker scu...

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see th...