Malik is the anti-hero of this somewhat mystical mini-epic of a movie. Just turned adult, illiterate, lacking a clear-cut ethnic identity, he finds himself doing 6 years in a prison run on the inside by a violent Corsican gang with the connivance of corrupt staff. With the guidance of the ghost of a now dead inmate Malik learns not just to read and write but to deal with the power politics of gangsterhood and it is his success at the latter that allows him to emerge from prison... There is a s find out more...

Jimmy Boyle was a young Glaswegian hard man born into, and fully embracing, a life of crime. When Jimmy was imprisoned for murder his first reaction was rage, but while incarcerated he experienced an epiphany and embarked on a journey as far removed from his earlier infamy as it was possible to get. Based on Jimmy Boyle's own life ‘A Sense Of Freedom' is a powerful, often brutal, tale of redemption. find out more...

Lisa and Julien are a blissfully married couple, leading an idyllic life together with their young son Oscar. Tragically, as is so often the case with these celluloid nirvana' s, Lisa is wrongfully arrested for a brutal murder and sentenced to 20 years behind bars. Julien may only be a humble teacher but he is a driven man; to gain his wife her freedom whatever it takes and regardless of the potential consequences. Anything for her is a slick stylish thriller that snorts loudly in the face of pl find out more...

Newly appointed prison warden Henry Brubaker passes himself off as a convict for his first few days to observe the harsh realities of life on the inside. But instead he discovers a number of secret graves and a web of deceit and corruption amongst the officers. A tense, stark and gripping thriller. find out more...

 

A new prison officer finds himself in a desperate struggle for survival when he is mistakenly trapped inside as a riot unfolds. His only hope is to befriend one of the inmates leading the rebellion and pass himself off as one of those incarcerated. Cell 211 is a hard brutal action drama

 

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Based on the notorious Australian criminal Mark "Chopper" Read, the film works in flashback as Mark recounts from his prison cell his many (perhaps embellished) exploits, the vast majority of which involve a frequently fatal act of violence. 'Chopper' is both disturbing, gruesome and extremely funny, with a powerhouse central performance. Not for the faint hearted, but you'd probably already guessed that. find out more...

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

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Sentenced to life on 'The Rock', amidst brutal warders and unpleasant fellow inmates, Frank Morris set himself the task, starting with a pair of nail-clippers, of escaping. Eventually Frank and two fellow prisoners made their bid for freedom and, though none ever publically resurfaced, their bodies were never found and lore logs these guys as the only successful escapees from this soulless prison. A nailbiting thriller, one of Eastwood's best, that never lets up from start to finish. find out more...

A strange, beautiful film. We watch mother and son as they go about their peculiar daily routine, and we see a dead child in the ocean. It's unnerving and, somehow, everything seems eerily sexual, too. Then we are invited to go underwater where we get a closer look at the strange story science and earth have to tell. There are only mothers and sons in this coastal town. There is routine and control - but who is in control and what happens if someone starts to ask que find out more...