Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
The story of the final Emperor of China.
After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.
Young Danny Flynn is released from prison after 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts.
A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.
Sherry tries to integrate again into society and become a good mother.
A reporter returns to his Florida home-town to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.