David Aldrich aspires to be an author. The publishers reject most of his manuscripts because they seem to lack realism. David struggles on, however, determined to succeed and kept happy by his love for Helen Chambers and for his bosom friend Morton, who is a young minister working among the people on the East Side.
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...
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...
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...
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemp...
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...
A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking f...
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...
Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift ...
Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to ...
A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the ...
Elspeth Marner is a seventeen-year-old premiere danseuse. Frank Masterson is the most hated as well ...
Agnes Vernon is the daughter of an old prospector whose hard luck leads him to turn holdup. The fath...
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing ...
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla a...
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter pri...