En 1947, Andy Dufresne, un jeune banquier, est condamné à la prison à vie pour le meurtre de sa femme et de son amant. Ayant beau clamer son innocence, il est emprisonné à Shawshank, le pénitencier le plus sévère de l'Etat du Maine. Il y fait la rencontre de Red, un Noir désabusé, détenu depuis vingt ans. Commence alors une grande histoire d'amitié entre les deux hommes.
Victime d'un coup monté, Libby purge une peine de prison pour le meurtre présumé de son mari. Elle décide donc de se venger et de tuer son « défunt » mari pour de bon.
Séparé de sa fille, un père ayant une déficience intellectuelle doit prouver son innocence quand il est emprisonné pour le meurtre de la fille d'un commandant.
Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.
Ken Castle est à la tête de la téléréalité Slayers, dans laquelle des prisonniers condamnés à mort s’entretuent pour gagner leur liberté. L’originalité de cette télé réalité est que les protagonistes ne sont pas libres de leurs mouvements, ils sont contrôlés à distance par des joueurs en ligne à l’instar d’un simple jeu vidéo. Kable, l’avatar de Simon, est le héros de ce divertissement. Cependant, celui-ci apprend très vite qu’il fait l’objet d’un coup monté et qu’il va devoir s’évader de ce jeu.
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.
A story about a mentally ill man wrongfully imprisoned for murder and his relationship with his 6 year old daughter.
Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the true nature of the homicidal inhabitants, and secret creatures hidden deep within the walls.
A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group with other incarcerated men.
Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.
The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads in 1977. Claudio Tamburrini is a goalie for a minor-league football team when he is abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he is a terrorist. As he is tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he doesn't have, Tamburrini fully expects to be killed. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo and Tano are being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dives out a window during a rainstorm.
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime
A man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison, where he is accused of murdering a brutal guard he killed in self-defense.
On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn’t distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter’s investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee’s freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.
At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were many Jewish refugees and many who were fully assimilated. This film records the story of a group who were sent to a POW camp in Australia aboard the Dunera.
Madan comes from a poor family background. Unable to find employment, he takes to gambling in order to pay for his sister's medical expenses. Soon, he forms a bond with Leena, a dancer, and is falsely accused of her murder.