After a governor issues an executive order to arrest the children of undocumented immigrants, the detained youth are offered an opportunity to have their charges dropped by volunteering to provide care to the elderly. Once inside the elder care facility, however, they discover more twisted secrets than they could have possibly imagined.
Faite prisonnière à Compiègne, Jeanne d'Arc comparaît à Rouen devant un tribunal ecclésiastique. Ses juges cherchent à la compromettre par des questions insidieuses et par diverses formes de torture morale. Condamnée, Jeanne est brûlée vive en place publique. La foule se révolte à ce spectacle, ce qui entraîne une répression rapide par les troupes anglaises.
Soeur Helen Prejean va accompagner jusqu'à sa mort Matthew Poncelet, condamné à la peine capitale pour l'assassinat de deux adolescents.
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.
En 1839, un navire espagnol est le théâtre d'une sanglante mutinerie d'esclaves africains. Lorsque le bateau atteint les côtes de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, les rebelles sont aussitôt arrêtés et jetés au cachot. Leur cause est alors défendue par Theodore Joadson, lui-même un ancien esclave. Il retient les services d'un jeune avocat qui parvient à obtenir la libération des prisonniers. Mais, à l'approche d'une élection, le président Martin Van Buren exige un autre procès afin de ménager la susceptibilité des électeurs sudistes.
Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he had seduced and abandoned years before and tries to convince the authorities of her of his innocence but to no avail. Convinced that he is responsible for her moral fall, he follows her to Siberia where she must serve her sentence.