Victime de torture dans son enfance, une jeune femme tente de refaire sa vie après quinze ans d'internement. Persuadée d'avoir retrouvé ses tortionnaires, elle les abat. Une amie venue à son secours est séquestrée et soumise à d'atroces souffrances.
L'histoire vraie de Gertrude Baniszewski qui, dans les années 60, séquestra dans sa cave une adolescente du nom de Sylvia Likens...
L'avocat d'un prisonnier d'Alcatraz qui est accusé du meurtre d'un codétenu veut prouver que son client a souffert de conditions de détention inhumaines.
This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the inside. The movie is an account of actual events surrounding Nellie’s stay beginning after she has undergone treatment, leaving her with no recollection of how she came to the asylum or her real identity.
A young woman comes back home. She gets undressed, puts on her swimsuit, and sinks into the underwater depths of her apartment. Overcomed by a baroque aquatic flora, her home has become the ecosystem of her spouse: an octopus. Until the following morning, she complies with this hostile, wet and suffocating environment that is now her everyday life with her man (octopus).