U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard hænger på et fly fuld af fanger. Efter et dramatisk styrt i Ohio-floden savnes en fange - Mark Roberts, der er mistænkt for mordet på to Secret Service-agenter. Gerard sætter alt ind i jagten, som går gennem skove, sumpe og Manhattans gader. Hver time, hvert minut på døgnet udnyttes til det yderste for at finde den mistænkte...
Gerry Conlon er en ubetydelig tyv i 70'ernes splittede Belfast, og hans største interesser er at drikke sig fuld og feste, hvilket hans stille og skrøbelige far Giuseppe er meget imod. Da Gerry gør IRA vrede, sender hans far ham til England, hvor hans udskejelser gør, at han er på det forkerte sted på det forkerte tidspunkt. Han er uskyldig, men tvinges til at tilstå terroristers bombeangreb og idømmes livsvarigt fængsel. Den uskyldige Giuseppe bliver også anholdt og fængslet, og i fængslet opdager Gerry langsomt, at faderens tilsyneladende skrøbelighed dækker over en utrolig styrke og klogskab. Sammen med en meget engageret forsvarer beslutter Gerry at få sin uskyld bevist, rense sin fars navn og afsløre sandheden bag en af juraens mest skamfulde begivenheder i nyere tid.
Jimmie Rainwood (Tom Selleck) er en ganske almindelig borger, hvis liv bliver til et mareridt, da et par uhæderlige betjente retter falske anklager mod ham og fængsler ham for en forbrydelse, han ikke har begået. Rainwood sværger, at han vil kæmpe og sørge for, at retfærdigheden sker fyldest over for de to uærlige betjente - koste, hvad det vil! Og i sidste ende sætter han alt på spil - selv sin frihed - for at bevise sin uskyld.
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.
Tomasz Komenda was 23 years old when his normal life was brutally interrupted. Overnight he was arrested, thrown into prison and charged with murder. Subsequent expert opinions confirmed his participation in the crime, and any evidence was against him. For nearly two decades in prison, he was beaten, intimidated, humiliated and on his own. Finally, after 18 years of imprisonment, prosecutors and a policeman appeared on his way, who decided to discover the truth behind the mysterious case of the detainee.
"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.