Film pripoveduje resnično zgodbo o Henriju Charriereju, ki je bil zaradi umora, za katerega je vedno trdil, da ga ni zagrešil, obsojen na dosmrtno ječo. Poslali so ga v zapor v Francoski Gvajani, kjer je moral vsak dan trpeti zaradi nečloveških razmer. Zaradi podobe metulja, ki ga je kot simbol svobode imel vtetoviranega na prsih, je dobil vzdevek Metulj. Potem ko je večkrat poskušal zaman pobegniti, je bil kruto kaznovan, nato pa mu je nekega dne po dolgih letih le uspelo pobegniti na svobodo. Kasneje je o svoji izkušnji napisal knjigo, ki je postala svetovna uspešnica in po kateri so posneli tudi film.
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
A story set in Indochina in 1959, a lawless land controlled by the criminal class: Vietnamese warlords and European war-criminals. Den-Dhin-Chan Labor Camp is run by four such dangerous men. The worst prison in the land, it is here that an Irish, former-champion boxer Martin Tillman has made a name for himself fighting tournaments, on which wealthy criminals gamble in high stakes events. When Tillman is due for release, he just wants to return home, but the corrupt forces running the jail will do everything in their power to keep him locked down. When all that Tillman holds dear is taken away in a vicious act of violence, he is forced to confront the men responsible and take his revenge. The birth of a legend.
A young man recalls his childhood growing up in a poor alley in Beijing during the 1950s and 1960s.
In the wild times of the Second World War, Blanka marries political grandee Pavle, who is shortly afterwards sent to Goli Otok as a political prisoner. Blanka has enthusiasm for photography, becomes independent and opens a studio of photography with Laco. But soon she realizes that her business partner is an impostor. Pavle returns from prison, but their relationship, despite awareness of the political interference in their intimate sphere, imbues the bitter chill and misunderstanding. Blanka tries to drown her endless problems in alcohol and seduce her only male friend, but her last rescue, the thread of love, is being interrupted as well. Is every love of Blanka Kolak sentenced to death, is love possible at all, is worth living without it?
Damascus, Oregon, United States. Julie Keith finds a baffling message hidden in a pack of decorative items, a desperate plea for help, written by someone imprisoned in a Chinese labor camp called Masanjia…
When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisionally released.