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.
A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
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.
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 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.