Mark Sheridan, acusado del asesinato de dos agentes secretos, es arrestado y trasladado en avión a una penitenciaría. Durante el viaje, debido a una revuelta, el avión sufre un accidente que le permite escapar. Comienza entonces una implacable persecución por parte del agente federal Sam Gerard, que hace años vivió una experiencia similar persiguiendo al doctor Kimble, el famoso fugitivo.
Belfast, años 70. Gerry es un gamberro que sólo sabe beber e ir de juerga, para disgusto de su padre Giuseppe, un hombre tranquilo y educado. Cuando Gerry se enfrenta al IRA, su padre lo manda a Inglaterra. Una vez allí, por caprichos del azar, es acusado de participar en un atentado terrorista y condenado a cadena perpetua junto con los "cuatro de Guildford". También su padre es arrestado y encarcelado. En la cárcel Gerry descubre que la aparente fragilidad de su padre esconde en realidad una gran fuerza interior. Con la ayuda de una abogada entregada a la causa, Gerry se propone demostrar su inocencia, limpiar el nombre de su padre y hacer pública la verdad sobre uno de los más lamentables errores legales de la historia reciente de Irlanda.
Jimmie Rainwood estaba ocupándose de sus propios asuntos cuando dos policías corruptos (que se equivocaron de dirección) irrumpieron en su casa, esperando encontrar a un traficante de drogas importante. Rainwood recibe un disparo y los oficiales lo incriminan como traficante de drogas. Rainwood es condenado por tráfico de drogas, con base en la evidencia de perjurio de un informante de la policía. Arrojado a una cárcel de mala muerte, luchar para demostrar su inocencia es difícil cuando tiene que lidiar con las realidades de la vida en prisión, donde todos afirman que fueron incriminados.
Retrato desolador de la injusticia y el sufrimiento humanos causados por el sistema penal de los Estados Unidos vigente tras la I Guerra Mundial.
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.
Un hombre mata a un policía en defensa propia y le condenan a cuatro años de cárcel. Jura vengarse del alcalde de la ciudad y del jefe de policía.
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.
Una cantante de música country (Linda Haynes) es acusada de un asesinato y encarcelada. El Doctor Kline (Geoffrey Lewis) la somete a una terrible sesión de tortura con la intención de borrarle todas sus memorias mediante un lavado de cerebro, para quitarle sus supuestos instintos asesinos.
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.
En agosto de 1996, dos conductores de autobús belgas, Marcel Van Loock y Wim Moreels, están detenidos por la aduana marroquí por supuesto tráfico de droga. Aunque son inocentes, el juez marroquí les condena a cinco años en la cárcel civil de Tánger: el infierno. No están preparados para sobrevivir ahí. Aparte de un carcelero y algunos prisioneros, a los demás mortales no les importa en absoluto que son inocentes. Lo único que pueden hacer es intentar sobrevivir y aguantarse.
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.
A través de la llegada de una periodista a El Salvador, el documental explorra la lucha de la activista Morena Herrera y la Agrupación Ciudadana para liberar mujeres que han caído presas injustamente, acusadas de practicarse abortos, con penas de hasta 40 años de cárcel.