Men of San Quentin

A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.

A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.

The grim news made international headlines: On August 21, 1971, prison authorities discovered a gun on famed Soledad Brother author, activist and San Quentin inmate George Jackson. A shootout ensued, killing Jackson, two other inmates and three guards, and wounding three more officers. Authorities asserted that only lawyer Stephen Bingham could have smuggled the weapon into the prison. Fearing that a conviction for abetting the guards’ deaths would lead to his own murder, the attorney fled, beginning a long, strange odyssey of pseudonymous exile. Strange indeed for the Yale-graduate scion of politically prominent New England elites.

Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. When Jameson tries to separate lawbreakers from hardened criminals, badguy Hansen tries to stir up trouble by telling Joe about Jameson's interest in his sister.

Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.

A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a 20-year-old Korean immigrant who had previous run-ins with the law, was arrested and convicted based on flimsy evidence and the eyewitness accounts of white tourists who couldn’t distinguish between Asian features. Sentenced to life in prison, Chol Soo Lee would spend years fighting to survive behind bars before journalist K.W. Lee took an interest in his case. The intrepid reporter’s investigation would galvanize a first-of-its-kind pan-Asian American grassroots movement to fight for Chol Soo Lee’s freedom, ultimately inspiring a new generation of social justice activists.

An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.

Drama set in San Quentin prison.

San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.

On February 24th, 1969, two days before he turned 37, Johnny Cash led his traveling troupe behind the foreboding walls of the California State Penitentiary at San Quentin, long known as one of America's toughest prisons.

Using rare historical footage, vintage musical recordings, and interviews with 88-year-old Pedro J. Gonzalez and his wife, this film chronicles Gonzalez’s long and colorful life, from his early days with Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, to his career as a popular radio personality in Los Angeles in the 1930s, to the controversial court case that sent him to San Prison, a victim of the repressive forces operating against the Chicano/Mexicano community during that period.

Paul Rodriguez performs stand up comedy at San Quentin State Prison as well as has personal interviews with the prisoners.

A group of West German men on a stag party find themselves stranded in a Montenegrin village inhabited only by vengeful women since all their men were shot during the war.

Three guys from a small town, looking for easy money, decide to rob a local bank. Armed with an excavator, they break into the vault and take everything from there. The morning after the raid, the robbers find out that 25 million rubles have been stolen from the bank. This is where the question "Where is our money?" hangs in the air, because in fact the trio took only a million from the bank, which means that either there is a "rat" among their friends, or there are another 24 million in circulation somewhere in the town.

Anna is independent and principled, she uses a wheelchair, but does not stop in the face of difficulties, inspires others and always relies only on herself. While working as a psychologist in a rehabilitation center, she meets young Maksim, who has just gotten a job at a social center. Maksim was raised by his grandmother. Young, frivolous and irresponsible. This acquaintance will forever change both the fate of the heroes and their worldview.

Misaki, a high school girl aiming for a university recommendation through karate, has a weakness: she's prone to oversleeping. If she's late just one more time, she will be disqualified.

Frederick and Lucienda's lives were a tranquil and happy one until the fateful day when she and their home are targeted by an organization calling itself the "Templar Order". Go back in time and witness the beginning lessons and most telling memories of Frederick Julian as he embarks on a journey to reunite with an old friend and devote his allegiance to the guided philosophy "Nothing is True. Everything is Permitted".

Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an American seller and Chinese communists, and to take out both parties. After almost getting assassinated himself, he takes a wounded civilian with him despite living in a world where no one can be trusted.