Convicted: A Mother's Story

Four Minutes

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her br

2006

The Edge of Heaven

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reco

2007

Lady Vengeance

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.

2005

White Oleander

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

2002

Vera Drake

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

2004

People I Know

A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.

2002

La corona

Based on the true story of a beauty pageant held inside El Buen Pastor, a women's maximum-security prison in Bogotá, Colombia.

The Reader

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only t

2008

Mondkalb

After her release from prison Alex, who has lost her faith in love, tries to reclaim her psychic balance through a retreat into loneliness. A man and

2008

Madonnas

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the

2007

Double Jeopardy

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. As she has

1999

Caged

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.

1950

Women in Prison

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had

1956

99 Women

Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island prison. When an escape attempt goes awry, the fugitive

1969

Women's Prison

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

1955

The Black Pearl

Women are beaten, raped, tortured and killed in brutal prison.

1982

Black Mama, White Mama

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and ex

1973

Barbed Wire Dolls

Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary w

1976

Chain Gang Women

A shackled murderer and marijuana offender escape from a Georgia chain gang.

1971

Yield to the Night

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

1956