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.
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.
The story of the final Emperor of China.
A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.
A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.
A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.
During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.