Po žmonos ir jos meilužio nužudymo bankininkas Andrew Dufresne nuteisiamas kalėti Šoušenko kalėjime. Bėgant metams, jis išlaiko viltį ir svajones išeiti laisvėn ir ilgainiui užsitarnauja pagarbą iš kitų kalinių, ypač vieno - “Red“ Reddingo, kuris savo rankose laikė visą kalėjimo juodąją rinką. Andrew tampa įtakingu nuteistuoju. Bet ar taps jo svajonės realybe?
Framed for the murder of her husband, Libby Parsons survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her -- finding her son and solving the mystery that destroyed her once-happy life. Standing between her and her quest; however, is her parole officer, Travis Lehman. Libby poses a challenge to the cynical officer, one that forces him to face up to his own failings while pitting him against his superiors and law enforcement colleagues.
Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.
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.
Netolimoje ateityje žmoniją užvaldo pramogų ir žaidimų manija. Iš senųjų gerųjų kompiuterinių žaidimų ir įvairių realybės šou gimė kraupus hibridas: žaidimų personažais tapo gyvi žmonės, kuriuos valdo kažkas kitas, sėdintis anapus ekrano. Keiblas – žaidimo žvaigždė ir kultinis herojus. Keiblą valdo jaunuolis vardu Saimonas. Nepaisant permainingos sėkmės Saimono valdomas Keiblas kiekvieną savaitę laimi skerdynių raundą. Tačiau svarbiausia Keiblo kova dar prieš akis. Jis privalo pasprukti iš žaidimo ir susigrąžinti gyvenimą ir artimuosius, kuriuos taip žiauriai iš jo atėmė...
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A story about a mentally ill man wrongfully imprisoned for murder and his relationship with his 6 year old daughter.
Kiekviename mieste yra namas, apie kurį pasakojami siaubingi dalykai. Suaugusieji kalba apie jį pašnibždomis, o kaimynų vaikai aplenkia kaip įmanoma didesniu lanku. Nuo tokių namų dvelkia vėsa bei mirtimi. Ir vargu ar atsirastų drąsuolis, kuris, net ir susiląžinęs, išdrįstų priartėti prie šios baisios vietos nakties glėbyje. Tačiau atsitiko taip, kad vienąsyk pats paprasčiausias dešimtmetis berniukas peržengė šio namo slenkstį. Košmarą, kurį herojui teks patirti, sunku nupasakoti žodžiais.
Nutrūktgalvis lakūnas Nikas Koltonas (Charles Bronson) už 250 tūkstančių dolerių apsiima ištraukti iš kalėjimo Meksikoje kalinamą Džėjų Vagnerį (Robert Duvall). Tokia kalinio gelbėjimo operacija praktiškai neįmanoma net puikiai paruoštam bei iki dantų ginkluotam spec. operacijų būriui. Užduoties unikalumas tame, kad ją įvykdyti gali tik vienišius. Tačiau tam reikia būti geriausiam iš geriausiųjų.
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.