1947 ൽ നിരപരാധിയായ ആന്ഡി ഡുഫ്രൈൻ എന്ന ബാങ്കെറെ ഭാര്യയുടെ കൊലപാതകക്കുറ്റം ചുമത്തി ഇരട്ട ജീവപര്യന്തം വിധിക്കുന്നിടത്താണ് കഥ ആരംഭിക്കുന്നത്.മെയിനിലെ ഷൊഷാങ്ക് ജയിലിൽ തീർത്തും നിരാശനായി എത്തുന്ന ആൻഡിക്ക് ജയിൽ സാഹചര്യങ്ങളുമായി പൊരുത്തപ്പെടാനാകുന്നില്ല. ജയിലിലെ സഹഅന്തേവാസിയും അനധികൃതമായി പ്രത്യേക വസ്തുക്കൾ ജയിലിലേക്ക് കടത്തുന്നയാളുമായ റെഡുമായി സൌഹൃദം സ്ഥാപിക്കുന്ന ആന്ടിയും റെഡുമായുള്ള സൗഹൃദമാണ് ചലച്ചിത്ര ഇതിവൃത്തം.
2035-ൽ, കുറ്റവാളി ജെയിംസ് കോൾ മനസ്സില്ലാമനസ്സോടെ, ഭൂമിയിലെ മിക്കവാറും എല്ലാ ജനസംഖ്യയെയും നശിപ്പിക്കുകയും അതിജീവിച്ചവരെ ഭൂഗർഭ സമൂഹങ്ങളിലേക്ക് നിർബന്ധിതരാക്കുകയും ചെയ്ത ഒരു മാരകമായ വൈറസിന്റെ ഉത്ഭവം കണ്ടെത്താൻ കൃത്യസമയത്ത് തിരികെ അയയ്ക്കാൻ സന്നദ്ധനായി. എന്നാൽ കോളിനെ 1996-ന് പകരം 1990-ലേക്ക് അബദ്ധത്തിൽ അയച്ചപ്പോൾ, അയാൾ അറസ്റ്റിലാവുകയും മാനസികരോഗാശുപത്രിയിൽ അടയ്ക്കപ്പെടുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു. അവിടെ അദ്ദേഹം സൈക്യാട്രിസ്‌റ്റ് ഡോ. കാതറിൻ റെയ്‌ലിയെയും ഒരു പ്രശസ്ത വൈറസ് വിദഗ്ധന്റെ മകൻ രോഗിയായ ജെഫ്രി ഗോയിൻസിനെയും കണ്ടുമുട്ടുന്നു, കൊലയാളി രോഗം അഴിച്ചുവിട്ടതിന് ഉത്തരവാദികളാണെന്ന് കരുതപ്പെടുന്ന നിഗൂഢമായ തെമ്മാടി ഗ്രൂപ്പായ ആർമി ഓഫ് ദ 12 മങ്കിസിന്റെ താക്കോൽ കൈവശം വച്ചിരിക്കാം.
Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight tournament begins - an international affair, matching the best fighters from prisons around the globe, enticing them with the promise of freedom for the winner - Boyka must reclaim his dignity and fight for his position in the tournament.
A businessman wakes up beside an ancient grist mill situated in the center of an open-air prison cell with no idea how he got there. Forced to work as a beast of burden to stay alive, he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child.
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
A story about a mentally ill man wrongfully imprisoned for murder and his relationship with his 6 year old daughter.
Yoon-young, a 19-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a civil servant, is framed as a murderer and imprisoned in a women's prison.
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence — a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted prematurely when the experimenters lost control.
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
Once again tampering with mother nature to disastrous results, Dr. Herbert West continues his research while serving time in a maximum security prison for his previous exploits. West's limited prison-cell experiments are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a new prison doctor and the brother of the girl who suffered from West's experiments 13 years earlier.
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
A condemned prisoner slowly falls in love with the married female artist who decorates his prison cell. Jin is a convicted killer awaiting execution on Death Row; Yeon is a lonely artist locked in a loveless marriage.
The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations. R also stands for Rachid, a young Muslim prisoner who becomes Rune's friend and accomplice, defying the rigid racial stratifications among the inmates.
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.
Panic arises among Allied POWs aboard a Japanese freighter when they learn that the ship is actually a decoy target for American submarines on night patrol. The prisoners unite and attack their Japanese captors just as an American sub surfaces and, not knowing the prisoners are aboard, prepares to torpedo the ship.