Murder in the First

Sylvie, a nearly sixty-year-old woman, has fallen in love with Michel, a thug she marries in prison. The couple dream of starting again with a clean s...

A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war effort...

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, th...

Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Y...

Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war o...

An unassuming young lawyer leads a fight against the Nazis near the end of the Second World War.

Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappe...

When World War II breaks out, two German lovers are cruelly separated. While he is sent to fight at the front, she, a Jewish girl, is sent to a concen...

Julián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic's Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow prisoner Yane...

A Black attorney in New York is thrust into a stand-your-ground case by a senior partner. He is asked to defend a white woman who has murdered a Black...

Imprisoned journalist Joseph Michaels faces a government execution during a future American Revolution.

An environmental lawyer is successful in closing illicit mining in Los Farallones de Cali. He is attacked, and his wife dies; he resolves to take acti...

Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows m...

In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. No...