Hallin Janne (1950)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 20M
Director : Roland af Hällström
Sinopsis
In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.
The true story of baseball star Ron LeFlore, from his days as a street-corner punk with no future to his days behind bars on a petty robbery conviction to his ultimate once-in-a-lifetime chance with the Detroit Tigers, where he became an outstanding baseball player.
This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California. The place takes a humanistic approach to reform and there are no armed guards, no lockups and no uniforms. The underlying philosophy is that if these things are not there, the prisoners will not want to escape, and will instead accept their punishment. A new inmate arrives and soon accustoms himself to the new idea. The story includes the Oscar nominated song Unchained Melody.
A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his emotional journey through the trial, imprisonment and beyond.
Dos niños (Holly Deveaux y Christian Martyn) son testigos de un asesinato en un viaje donde realizarán una acampada con un amigo de la familia (Daniel Kash). Cuando los criminales y también hermanos (Purcell y Suplee) comienzan a dar caza a los niños para matarlos e impedir que puedan declarar en su contra, aparece el padre para intentar salvarlos.
Un periodista es detenido en Irán durante más de cien días y sufre un brutal interrogatorio en prisión durante 118 días. Maziar Bahari permaneció con los ojos vendados reconociendo únicamente el olor de agua de rosas de su captor.
Un hombre que lleva 24 años preso en una cárcel de máxima seguridad por cometer un crimen violento está a punto de salir, pero antes conoce a Beech, un nuevo preso que le ofrece su amistad, algo que complicará las cosas.
Año 1862. La piloto Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) y el científico James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) deciden embarcarse en un viaje para descubrir los secretos del cielo, volando en un globo aeroestático más alto de lo que nadie lo había hecho antes. Pero al llegar a las capas más altas de la atmósfera, ambos comienzan a tener problemas con el oxigeno y la altitud, viéndose forzados a luchar por su propia superviviencia.
'Welcome to Curiosity' es un thriller en el que se explora cuatro historias paralelas en las que el destino de los personajes está entrelazado de forma involuntaria y, en ocasiones, de forma fatal. Las tramas se conectan con la fuga de un asesino en serie de la prisión. Con un asesino en serie arrasándolo todo, un atraco que sale mal, un lunático desaparecido de un manicomio, una chica vulnerable con un depredador y un vendedor con una imaginación desbordante todo se conecta bajo una misma premisa: la curiosidad insaciable puede costarles la vida.
The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumously) its most successful writer.
Three young orphans team up with the Frankenstein Monster to battle a Wolfman in their small mountain community.
Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flourished in the Weimar Republic, perished in the Nazi dictatorship, and was rebuilt after its partial destruction.
After Murat is released from prison, he will do illegal deeds to help street kids.
A group of prisoners were doing a variety of activities on the courtyard. Big Fool (William Ho) and Crazy Bill (Tommy Wong) were playing basketball where Bill kicks the ball towards Tung (Ben Wong), who kicks it away. Bill felt humiliated by it and stars a fight with Tung where Tung ends out hospitalized. During hospitalization, Tung thinks about the time when his family moved to another house and opened a food stall nearby. However, their stall was burnt by triad leader Sing (Bill Lung), who constantly bullies Tung's family and also raped Tung's girlfriend, Sau (Iris Wong). Unable to tolerate Sing's bullying, Tung kills Sing by chopping him to death, which leads Tung to being imprisoned.
In this Aussie prison drama directed by Kate Woods, no one can explain why inmate Kevin Jones (Hugh Jackman) arrived at Blackstream Penitentiary with brain damage and horrible bruises on his body -- least of all Kevin. Can a jailhouse psychologist (played by Deborra-Lee Furness) help Kevin regain his memory, or will it take an act of violence to bring out the truth? This "Correlli" TV series pilot "The Rat Tamer" was later released separately on DVD as a feature.
When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives, who have fled by foot and boat and now have begun to turn on each other.
In 19th century France, an escaped convict seeks redemption while caring for a young woman whose mother he once protected, and aligning himself with a band of student revolutionaries.
A Man's Past (1927)
Una mujer de las llanuras se enfrenta a la dureza y el aislamiento de la tierra indómita en la frontera occidental de finales del siglo XIX.
Mientras disfruta de un permiso, un convicto logra escapar de la justicia con el objetivo de dar caza a los responsables de que se convirtiese en un asesino a sangre fría. Su batalla es tan física como espiritual, pues busca redimir su alma de todos los años que invirtió manchando de sangre una ciudad fría y austera.
Maryam Henderson-Uloho spent thirteen years in prison in Louisiana, seven in solitary confinement. After her release she struggled to find housing or employment. She began selling secondhand goods out of a suitcase on a street corner in New Orleans. In just three years, she grew her business to a brick-and-mortar thrift store—one that also provides housing and employment for other formerly-incarcerated women. She calls those women—and her store—Sister Hearts.