露西童年时被一神秘组织绑架，在那一年的黑暗岁月里，她饱受折磨。最终她趁守卫不注意逃脱，在孤儿院结识了新的朋友安娜。然而露西心灵受到严重创伤，她经常能够看到一个全身赤裸、伤痕累累的恐怖女人对她进行恐吓与追杀。露西就在恐慌与悲痛中度过了童年。 15年后，经过一番追查，露西和安娜查到了当年的行凶者之一。露西将对方一家杀害，却仍无法摆脱童年的梦魇，最终在歇斯底里中自杀身亡。悲伤的安娜很快被那个神秘组织抓到，她将如朋友一样，被迫成为传说中的殉道者……
哈瑞和玛丽安彼此相爱，梦想着开个服装店，梦想着有个美好的明天。然而他们都离不开毒品，并想着以销毒赚得第一桶金。哈瑞的母亲是个彻底的电视迷，最大的梦想是上电视，为此不顾年迈吞食减肥药。由于药品里的毒品成分，她渐渐上了瘾。哈瑞的朋友狄龙同样是个瘾君子，为了挣大钱加入了黑社会。为了梦想，他们努力着，却一步步深陷毒品难以自拔。
哈瑞的胳膊因注射毒品感染而被割去；玛丽安为了毒品出卖肉体和自尊；哈瑞的母亲最终住进了精神病院受尽折磨；狄龙锒铛入狱。当视线变得模糊，梦在遥远处呼唤，迷失的人该以怎样的姿态安抚自己的灵魂。
天真可爱的伊丽莎白（安娜·弗莱尔 Anna Friel 饰）自幼嫁入贵族，肩负着振兴家世的的重任。适时战争不断，匈牙利的土地上未见安宁之地，伊丽莎白的夫家弗伦茨·纳达斯第（文森特·瑞根 Vincent Regan 饰）则在战争中愈加强大。弗伦茨连年征战在外，伊丽莎白则体验着孤独与无聊，她沉湎黑魔法、不伦之爱、蕾丝之情，更成为百姓谈及色变的吸血鬼女伯爵。真相在历史的长河中早已扑朔迷离，真正的伊丽莎白究竟如何无人得知…… 本片根据中世纪匈牙利臭名昭著的“吸血女伯爵”伊丽莎白·巴瑟（Elizabeth Bathory）的故事改编，并荣获2009年捷克金狮奖最佳艺术指导奖。
在亚伦被指控谋杀后，他利用祈祷的力量来帮助证明自己的清白，改变自己的生活，并在为时已晚之前拯救他的儿子贾伦免受街头生活的影响。
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
《水泥之夜》讲述了赫尔辛基贫民社区一单亲家庭一天的故事。14岁少年西门敏感迷惘，其母亲有心理问题需要服药不能独处，其哥哥因为贩毒被抓一天后要进监牢。这特别的一天始于西门梦见自己乘坐的火车脱轨沉入水底，河水四面涌入，无处逃生…
A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a perceived adversary into an ally. Power is found in coming to know our neighbor’s hearts. For in the darkness of ignorance, enemies are made and wars are waged, but in the light of understanding, family extends beyond blood lines and legacies of hatred crumble.
Arthur, a young Korean-American, tries to manage one brother, sentenced to spend his life in jail; his other brother, a drug addict; and pressure from their Korean-born mother.
Could dyslexia be a gift? Or can it only ever be a disability? Documentary maker Richard Macer sets off on a road trip with his dyslexic son Arthur to find the answer. En route, they meet Richard Branson and Eddie Izzard, and many other successful dyslexic people. - BBC
Set in a speakeasy in Atlanta, “Twenty” is a feature documentary about fifteen young people making it through 2020. The film is an observational time capsule that lays bare the raw reflections of a group of people surviving a year that will be seared into our generational memory.
An inside look as the 38-year-old prepares to perform at the famed Bridgestone Arena in his hometown of Nashville, featuring never-before-seen tour footage and interviews with the musician and those closest to him. It also shows how Jelly Roll balances life on tour with philanthropic work, including a visit to a juvenile detention facility where he was incarcerated multiple times to share his story in the hopes of inspiring positive change in others.
Preschool to Prison is a compelling examination of how the United States public school system is built and operated like prisons. Zero-tolerance policies are used to justify suspension and arrests that set up a pathway to send children of color and children with special needs from school to prison. Children are being suspended, restrained, dragged, physically manhandled, and subsequently arrested for minor offenses such as throwing candy on a school bus. These personal accounts from people affected by the school-to-prison pipeline give riveting tales about the generational impact on society.
A look beyond the shock and inhumanity of prison rape to the intricate social hierarchy that keeps it alive. A filmmaker goes deep inside Alabama's infamous Limestone penitentiary to uncover the long-term causes and consequences of prison rape. With a startling lack of inhibition, five inmates reveal the workings of an elaborate inner society.
An intimate portrait of Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, who for more than three decades has advocated on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned, seeking to eradicate racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.
Young Dimitris, on the verge of manhood yet very much a child, has romanticized his imprisoned father to mythic proportions. When he gets released after ten years, Dimitris cannot wait to finally know him and make up for lost time. But when his father reveals his true nature, Dimitris must face a great dilemma: will his need of belonging prevail over his sense of justice?
Achille, 13, awaits, full of hope, the release from prison of his father, unknown and fantasized. His dream of living as a threesome, like a real family, will be seriously undermined by a mother exhausted from waiting and this father who is unsuitable and made irresponsible by so many years of incarceration. Will this vulnerable person with a flamboyant past be able to keep the promise he made to his son to never live apart from him again?
Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'
Chennu committed his first crime when he was 15 years old: being a street kid. And he entered hell: Pademba Road. The adult prison in Freetown. In hell, Mr. Sillah is in charge, and there is no hope. Chennu got out after four years. Now he wants to go back.
Babz Dubreuil, a lonely ex-convict, works as a cook in a brunch restaurant. At the encouragement of a colleague, she finds the courage to ask an attractive customer on a date. It might be the beginning of redemption.
Bubu is a poet who has been committed to state institutions for the insane twelve times. He challenges the meaning of hospital-jails, hybrid institutions which sentence the insane to life imprisonment. The poem "The House of the Dead" was written during the filming of the documentary and reveals the forgotten deaths that occur in these judicial asylums. There are three stories in three acts of death. Jaime, Antonio, and Almerindo are anonymous men, considered dangers to society, whose punishment is the tragedy of suicide, the unending cycle of being committed to the asylum, or surviving life imprisonment in the house of the dead. Bubu is the narrator of his own life and also of his own destiny-death in the asylum.