Casino: The rise and fall of a crooked casino owner, his family and hoodlums due to drugs, sex, and betrayal. Carlito's way: After getting out of jail, a Puerto Rican drug lord wants to go straight, but his cohorts in the New York Underworld won't let him.

Dov'é la libertà: Rossellini's darkly comic satire showcases the great Italian comic Totò as a barber who is imprisoned for murdering his wife's suspected lover. After twenty years, Salvatore leaves the prison walls to find the world he once knew gone. His wife is dead, he encounters one deceitful person after another, and his family and friends are even more disloyal. Salvatore realizes he has no choice but to find a way back to prison where he...

Joe: A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin. Drive Angry : Hardened ex-con Milton is out for revenge against the crazed, bloodthirsty cult that was responsible for killing his daughter and kidnapping her baby. Taking to the highway with waitress Piper,...

"Wallace Beery stars as a thickheaded waiter in a German beer garden who uses his muscles to clear out rowdy patrons. Beery channels his strength into a wrestling career, grappling his way up to the championship. His wife Karen Morley enjoys the creature comforts of Beery's success, but her heart belongs to her ex-lover Ricardo Cortez, and soon Karen is stepping out on her husband. Beery finds out and exacts a terrible revenge on Cortez--just minutes...

A South Los Angeles woman who self-medicated with drugs after her son?s death and was in and out of prison for 15 years describes her struggle to get clean and how she became an advocate and supporter of women facing similar situations.

Keeda Haynes was a Girl Scout and a churchgoer, but after college graduation, she was imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. Her boyfriend had asked her to sign for some packages; packages she did not know were filled with marijuana. As a young Black woman falsely accused, prosecuted, and ultimately imprisoned, Haynes suffered the abuses of our racist and sexist justice system. But rather than give in to despair, she decided to fight for change....

In this remarkable memoir, President Obama's Kenyan half-brother, twenty-seven-year-old George Obama, describes his unique struggles with family, tribe, inheritance, and redemption and the seminal influence his brother had on his own future.

A deeply reported, narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga of one life that sheds vitally important light on the failures of the American justice system at every level.

A satire on factory life centering on the activities of a couple of ex-prisoners, one of whom, an ambitious crook, becomes the boss of a large factory while the other, a sentimental old tramp, becomes a worker there. Eventually both discover that happiness and peace of mind cannot be bought with money and revert to their former life as vagabonds. This film inspired Charlie Chaplin's Modern times.

American gangster: A New York City cop seeks to bring down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas. Carlito's way: A Puerto Rican former convict tires to go straight despite the pressure of drugs and violence around him. Casino: Two best friends, a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire and a fast living socialite. Public enemies: FBI agent Melvin Purvis tries to take down John Dillinger, Baby Face nelson...