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A woman is kidnapped by a mysterious sex trafficking ring and trained to be a sex slave. Despite the abuse she remains defiant.

Ha-ni was searching for the whereabouts of the people around her. Weirdly, she finds that the writings of Yeong-cheol, a web novelist, started all of this. Sang-her is upset with her husband… Through a friend's recommendation, they find a place to heal, though it is difficult to tell whether it is a dream or a reality. Dong-seok is the husband who found such behaviors as strange… He follows her wife's navigation to see what she's up to. He is also experiencing strange phenomena. In addition, Yeong-jun who had a death experience, has a strange experience of moving in the space of others. Ha-ni and Yeong-cheol's conflict to exhaust the boyfriend and the people around them, and Dong-seok's favor to Yeong-jun to find his wife, they can't tell if it's a dream or reality…

The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances of prison life, and the effects of imposed social roles on behaviour. It was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University.

The film is about the treatment of depression in a psychiatric hospital adjacent to a prison in Russia. The main character becomes a patient, but while in the hospital, she begins to immerse herself in the problems and mental disorders of other patients. Her new friend is a 39-year-old woman, Asya, who jumped from the 12th floor after her husband abandoned her. Every evening, the main character and Asya collect puzzles in the hope that one day they will be cured of mental illness. Asya talks about her life, which she hardly remembers, and subtly tries to ask her new friend how to hang herself. Meanwhile, the main character secretly records life inside the hospital on the webcam of her computer and phone: recording the procedures and experiences of patients like herself.

A lugubrious man hired to do a crime, now awaits for his last, brief contact with the mobsters, to pick-up his money. A very short film which tries to re-imagine film gris and to capture the sub-genre's "greater psychological and social realism".

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Wrongfully imprisoned in a brutal multinational prison, a Hong Kong businessman must escape the sadistic warden's torture to survive.

After being involved in a hit and run incident, a wealthy spoiled brat was sent to prison and must learn several tricks in order to survive the life inside.

A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.

A documentary about the making of Walerian Borowczyk's 'Blanche'.

Examining the case of Martin Sostre, a black Puerto Rican bookstore owner in Buffalo, New York who was framed on drug possession charges in 1967 and sentenced to prison, this film shows how the American justice system can be abused for purposes of political repression.

Leo is taken prisoner before his departure home. The businessman is accused of working for American intelligence. He insists he is innocent, but his time in jail will change him forever.

A young girl gets involved in a family drama when she starts a secret friendship with a prison inmate.

Filmed on the plains of north-western New South Wales, this documentary looks at one man's fight against the scourge of Indigenous imprisonment in his community. Inside Out tells the story of a pastor and former prison guard, Uncle Isaac Gordon, whose dream is to see the numbers of Aboriginal youths heading to jail slashed. Gordon wants to build a 'healing centre' for troubled Aboriginal young people at risk of jail time, built on his family's ancestral land near the towns of Brewarrina and Walgett. But will government bodies get on board?

Since September 2021, Chow Hang-tung, Vice-Chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (the Alliance), has been held at Tai Lam Centre for Women, either serving a prison sentence or in custody on remand. Prolonged pretrial detention is a new normal under the National Security Law. On the eve of the 35th anniversary of June 4th, the Hong Kong national security police, for the first time after the enactment of Article 23, cited the National Security Law to arrest 8 people, accusing them of using "a certain upcoming sensitive date" to continuously post messages inciting hatred against the central and SAR governments. The arrested individuals include the imprisoned Chow Hang-tung. This barrister, still in prison, has received at least five international human rights awards during her period in custody. And how is her own human rights situation in prison? How does she think about the rule of law in Hong Kong?

The film deals with Tove's ups and downs while serving 7 years for cocaine trafficking in Lima, Peru.

This is the 16th installment of the “Psychic Documentary” film series.

Ren Haoming thinks it's Ruan Qingtian's mother who stole his mother's design and then killed his mother. So he asks Ruan Qingtian to be his nanny for one year to repay her mother's debts. He also marries her based on a contract, so as to take more revenge on her. However, during further investigation, he finds that the murderer is someone else. At that time, Ruan Qingtian gets pregnant with his child and prepares to get rid of his imprisonment.

In the middle of the 19th century, in a fort on the Pampean frontier, the Carbajal family -father and son- are left abandoned in a cell after a raid of Indians ravaged the place. Miguel, with very little strength, tries to keep his father, who is seriously wounded, alive.

Batory is a Trans Man and inmate at the Warszawa-Grochów Detention Center in Poland. Truly a film inspired by the cinema-verité movement, Batory navigates having difficult conversations with his significant other and parents upon his release - showing us a unique perspective on the lives of those in other worlds.

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.

Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!

After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.

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 been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills Nick.

A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.

Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game's mastermind.

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

The film follows randy college boys Zack and Brian on a trip to Malibu for a party where there's a shortage of boys but a bevy of buxom girls. Beset on the way by car trouble, and various other distractions, the film also follows the journey of Zack and Brian's girlfriends, who follow the boys to Malibu but end up having their own lusty adventures.

Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.

Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.

Inspired by the true-life experience of its star George Takei, Allegiance follows one family's extraordinary journey in this untold American story following the events of Pearl Harbor. Their loyalty was questioned, their freedom taken away, but their spirit could never be broken.