After the universal abolition of the death penalty, an executioner is assailed by murderous impulses. He then discovers that against all expectations, he has taken a liking to his profession.
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Biel and Aina confront the final conversation about the breakup of their relationship, the first one of both, before she returns with train to her home, making the breakup official. In spite of Aina seemingly having assumed it, Biel wants to fight for the relationship, something that will make her hesitate.
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A fledgling young actor has finally secured a part in a promising production, but disagreements between the director and producer threaten to derail the project—and his career.
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A solid middle American couple meet a stranger who will have a big role in history as we know it.
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
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Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.
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20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder of a friend.
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Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
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An ex-marine enforcer must battle his conscience and code of honor when he is forced to do things for the mob.
