Made for the landmark anthology series, For the Record, Seer Was Here is an example of the bold dramatic programming made at the CBC in the mid-70s, while theatre director John Hirsch was serving as the head of the drama department. Saul Rubinek plays an inmate of a cruel Vancouver prison who brings humour, warmth, a little joy and self-understanding to the fellow prisoners of his cell block. An irreverent satire also featuring Eric Peterson and Martin Short. “Absolutely great, It’s also funny. Very Funny. Very Warm. Very touching… in some ways, a Canadian One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” (Calgary Herald, 1978)
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
A provincial detective seeks to take down a local gambling syndicate with the help of two convicts.
Three women uncover the rags-to respectability tale of their ancestors?the feisty convicts who became the unlikely founding mothers of modern Australia. This is the rip-roaring tale of The Lady Juliana and the boatload of streetgirls, thieves and con-women who sailed to the ends of the earth to breathe life into a dying colony.
A silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama about a man who gets out of prison after ten years and discovers that his wife has divorced him and married the man who sent him to prison. Worse yet, she fears he will want to exact revenge, so she sets up her new husband to frame her first husband, so he will be sent back to prison!
Thoughtful documentary exploring the shocking court decision to grant custody to a child’s father, a convicted murderer, rather than her lesbian mother.
A college football team recruits a tough convict.
Grupka studentów psychologii pod opieką profesora Jeremiego Davisa (Danny NucciDanny Nucci) odbywa praktyki w szpitalu psychiatrycznym "Parker Mental Hospital". Podczas jednych z zajęć Abby (Christine Evangelista) ma niepokojące zajście z Harmonem (Dominic Purcell). Mężczyzna kilka godzin później ucieka. Wiedziony obsesją na punkcie atrakcyjnej studentki, kieruje się do jej domu. Na tropie Hamona są detektywi Alison Jensen (Faith Ford) i Pars. Nieświadome zagrożenia Abby i jej współlokatorka Lynn (Carly Chaikin) koncentrują się na nauce. Tymczasem Harmon jest coraz bliżej i nie ustąpi dopóki nie osiągnie celu.
The Most Dangerous Game formula gets a monstrous twist as the mythical Hydra turns the tables on a group of wealthy human-hunters. Kidnapped along with three ex-convicts, former Marine Tim Nolan is transported to a deserted island where the super rich pay a fortune to hunt human prey. But this island isn't exactly deserted; it's actually home to Hydra the Beast!
A sultry woman joins an illiterate killer and a brainy hacker, both escaped convicts, to search for gold.
W niedalekiej przyszłości. 10 skazanych na karę śmierci będzie musiało konkurować w wirtualnej rzeczywistości, w której grają przeciwko dinozaurom i sobie nawzajem.
A woman's lifelong pursuit of lost family diamonds is interrupted by the appearance of two escaped convicts.
When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives, who have fled by foot and boat and now have begun to turn on each other.
An Argentine writer agrees to travel with a detective, a married individual and a woman in a car, to cross the mountain range. A storm forces them to seek refuge in a cabin, inhabited by an old fan of esoteric arts. Along the way, we learn about Alberto's story and the reasons for his arrest. In an oversight the criminal and the woman escape the detective's vigil ...
In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they are all released, the magnate appoints them both as executives in his company.
A convict marries the warder's daughter after his escape and she eventually persuades him to finish his sentence.
After four years in prison, Bobby is released into a world he no longer recognizes. His exgirlfriend Penny is abusing drugs. Their daughter is in foster care. Bobby's sister is in the process of rebuilding her life after a bad relationship.
A sleepy fishing port town is consumed with terror when a small crater crash-lands nearby and releases a slimy parasitic agent that transforms the residents into brain-eating zombies. Cornered in an abandoned fishing lodge, six strangers are forced to band together to stave off the blood-sucking monsters clawing the walls outside.
In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would (at the very least) go to prison, regardless of their age. However, people of conscience were beginning to protest against this situation. The story takes place in a prison for children where conditions are particularly harsh. The warden is a thick-headed martinet who demands complete compliance with the rules, or the children will be brutally dealt with. The assistant warden is a more modern man, and is appalled by the whole institution, but seeks to begin by reforming it. To that end, he has invited a journalist to come and see the conditions that prevail there, in the hopes that she will rouse public opinion against at least this one form of injustice.
Więzień o imieniu Stone (Norton) stara się o przedwczesne zwolnienie. Potrzebna jest do tego pozytywna opinia kuratora Jacka (De Niro), który nie wierzy w resocjalizację więźnia. Przekonać ma go dziewczyna Stone’a, Lucetta (Jovovich), która próbuje uwieść Jacka.