Ao ser sentenciado por fraude, o insignificante trambiqueiro Stan (Rob Schneider) entra em pânico com a perspectiva nada agradável do que o aguarda na prisão, principalmente a idéia de se tornar o "namorado" de algum condenado grandalhão. Aproveitando seus últimos meses de liberdade, busca a ajuda de um misterioso guru das artes marciais, conhecido apenas como O Mestre (David Carradine), que milagrosamente consegue tranformar o atrapalhado malandro num especialista em kung fu. O Que ninguém poderia imaginar era que este inesperado talento de Stan acabaria com os conflitos entre várias gangues rivais provocando muitas gargalhadas, momentos constrangedoramente românticos e uma pilha de confusões dentro das paredes de pedra.
A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain gang.
A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.
A story of Tomasz Komenda - a man, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison, for a crime he did not commit.
Carlito 'Kado' is sentenced to three years in prison for fraud, leaving his pregnant girlfriend to fend for herself in the real world.