Muž, považovaný za bezohledného a tajemného vraha je na útěku před zákonem a snaží se zjistit, díky komu byl obviněn ze dvou vražd, spáchaných v New Yorku. nemá však mnoho času... Zkušený šerif Sam Gerard a jeho muži jsou mu na stopě. Nelítostné pronásledování začíná.
Skutečný příběh Gerryho Conlona, nevýznamného zlodějíčka žijícího ve znesvářeném Belfastu 70. let. Když si Gerry znepřátelí IRA, otec ho raději pošle do Anglie. Ani tam se ale Gerry nechová jako svatoušek a jednoho dne se kvůli svým kouskům objeví v nesprávnou dobu na nesprávném místě. Nevinný, ale pod tlakem donucený doznat účast na krvavém bombovém útoku, se jako jeden ze členů „Guildfordovy čtyřky“ ocitá ve vězení s doživotním trestem. Ve spolupráci se svou neúnavnou a ctižádostivou advokátkou se Gerry pouští do bitvy, na jejímž konci chce dokázat svou nevinu, očistit jméno svého otce a odhalit pravdu, která se skrývá za jedním z nejhanebnějších procesů v dějinách.
Život pozemního leteckého dozorce Jimmieho Rainwooda a jeho rodiny se v jedné chvíli změní v noční můru dva zkorumpovaní policisté Parnell a Scalise něj ušijí boudu, a tak se dostane do vězení ze zločin, který nespáchal. Teprve v tomto prostředí, plném krutosti a násilí se Rainwood mění a jeho pohled na svět a společnost dostává nový rozměr. Připravuje pomstu, která by potrestala ty, co mu přišili fiktivní zločin a je mu jedno, co ho to bude stát! Riskuje vše pro záchranu svého normálního života, aby dokázal, že on je jednou provždy nevinný muž ...
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
Inspired by one of the most savage and violent crimes committed in Rome in the 1980s, "Rabbia Furiosa" is the story of Fabio, a small-time neighborhood crook, known as “Er Canaro” (the Dog Man) who suffers years of abuse and mistreatment from Claudio, a local boss of the criminal underworld. When he is driven to desperation and the brink of madness, he will carry out a terrible and bloody act of vengeance...
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind bars. By the time he gets out of prison, he's determined to put together the pieces of his frame-up and dole out the justice he was denied to those responsible.
On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn’t distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter’s investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee’s freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.
A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.
Obyčejný život prostoduchého dobráka Tomka Komendy (Piotr Trojan), jehož snem je stát se jednoho dne automechanikem, se obrátí nohama naruby poté, co byl omylem obviněn z násilné vraždy a odsouzen k 25 letům do vězení.
"American Criminal" is filmed entirely in one shot ... A police officer, a prosecutor, a judge, and a forensic scientist conspire to manufacture evidence against murderers who they are convinced are guilty, but they lack the full proofs. When a criminal defense attorney threatens to expose their illicit activities, one of the group murders him. The police officer, who was opposed to the killing, is framed for the lawyer's murder and sentenced to life in prison. With this backstory in place, five years later he escapes prison and kidnaps the entire jury who convicted him, as well as his former judge, prosecutor and scientist allies. He assembles them all at a Jewish temple - the scene of the lawyer's murder - and proceeds to prove his innocence to them, while at the same time exacting just a bit more vigilante justice.
A wealthy businesswoman who tried to disinherit her unfaithful husband is murdered. The man's lover is convicted on the basis of circumstantial evidence in a negligent business case. But the now in love lawyer sets out to convict the real culprits ...
A pregnant woman arrested for frustrated murder is sent to the Manila City Jail where she meets several women with shocking pasts.
In August 1996, bus drivers Marcel Van Loock and Wim Moreels are apprehended by the Moroccan Customs for drug trafficking. Inside their bus, hidden behind a false compartment, they have discovered 700 pounds of hashish. Although the owner of the bus company is arrested as well and makes a full confession clearly indicating that both drivers were unaware of the hidden drugs, the Moroccan judge sentences both men to 5 years in the Moroccan prison of Tangiers. Nothing could have prepared the two men for life inside a Moroccan prison. Without food, clothes or medical care, they must learn how to take care of themselves to survive their stay in prison. Corrupt guards, corrupt lawyers and judges, a consul who doesn't care and frequent beatings are only part of the terrible prison. Meanwhile their families at home are left without any information, any help or any hope - finding out that their own government doesn't care for Belgian people in prisons abroad.
Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate and civilized East, so he takes a vacation to see the land he knows nothing about. Rancher Ann Keith and her cowhands, who have read and laughed at Pike's "wild" west, decide to give him a shock impression that is even wilder than depicted in his imaginative literary flights. Gang leader "Killer" Madden and his bandits decide to make the staged robberies real ones and Pike is arrested for the crimes Madden has pulled. Written by Les Adams for IMDb.
