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In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry, Ron and Hermione, now teenagers, return for their third year at Hogwarts, where they are forced to face escaped prisoner, Sirius Black, who poses a great threat to Harry. Harry and his friends spend their third year learning how to handle a half-horse half-eagle Hippogriff, repel shape-shifting Boggarts and master the art of Divination. They also visit the wizarding village of Hogsmeade and the Shrieking Shack, which is considered the most haunted building in Britain. In addition to these new experiences, Harry must overcome the threats of the soul-sucking Dementors, outsmart a dangerous werewolf and finally deal with the truth about Sirius Black and his relationship to Harry and his parents. With his best friends, Harry masters advanced magic, crosses the barriers of time and changes the course of more than one life. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón and based on J.K. Rowling's third book, this wondrous spellbinder soars with laughs, and the kind of breathless surprise only found in a Harry Potter adventure.

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Ribald, tasteless and hilarious ... this classic spoof of the Western genre by director Mel Brooks pokes fun at everyone and everything. A corrupt governor grants a reprieve to an African American convict if the condemned man agrees to serve as sheriff of a small Western town, believing that new sheriff will only live long enough to serve the needs of the governor and his nefarious railroad-baron backer.

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What happens when a college psych study goes shockingly wrong? In this tense, psychological thriller based on the notorious true story, Billy Crudup stars as Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days. Winner of two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including Best Screenplay, and created with the close participation of Dr. Zimbardo himself, 'The Stanford Prison Experiment' is a chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller about the dark side of power and the effects of imprisonment. Featuring an extraordinary cast of rising young actors, including Ezra Miller, Olivia Thirlby, Tye Sheridan, Keir Gilchrist, Michael Angarano, and Thomas Mann.

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High-flying reindeer! Mischievous elves! Warp-speed sleigh rides! Get set for a magical dose of holiday cheer, zany season's greetings, and spell-binding special effects in this fast-paced, heartwarming comedy hit! When Santa Claus decides to retire and pass on his magic bag of Christmas surprises to a new St. Nick, he enlists the aid of a hilarious assortment of characters, including that lovable know-it-all Ernest P. Worrell (Emmy Award-winning comedian Jim Varney)! Along the way, Santa and Ernest help a cynical teen experience the season's spirit like never before. And that's where the fun -- and magic -- begin! Ernest Saves Christmas... one delightful, surprising tale you'll never forget!

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In this spellbinding thriller, detectives Jake Doyle (Martin Lawrence) and Mary Kelly (Melissa Roxburgh) seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist (John Malkovich) when a copycat killer strikes. While Mary searches for clues in The Artist’s brilliant but twisted psyche, she and Jake are lured into a diabolical game of cat and mouse, racing against time to stay one step ahead of The Artist and his copycat.

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This fourth installment of the erotic thriller trilogy Poison Ivy, features Daisy, an orphan who leaves her small town life on the ranch to attend a New England University. There, she is recruited by the Ivy Society, which secretly has ties to various murders around the school. The Ivies do not take no for an answer and as they attempt to end Daisys life in school, Daisy attempts to put a stop to the Society and their evil reigns. What began as an opportunity to start and new life and escape a troubled past ends up a being more troublesome than she ever expected.

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In the follow up to Poison Ivy and Poision Ivy II, Emmy-winner and Golden Globe-nominee Jaime Pressly (TVs "My Name is Earl," "Torque") stars as the beautiful evil seductress Violet, the evil sister of the original Ivy. Using sexuality to weave a web of seduction and lies, she returns to her hometown to wreak havoc on the family she believes betrayed her sister.

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Even from the grave, Poison Ivy continues to sting Alyssa Milano ("Fear," TV's "Charmed") stars as a beautiful art student drawn into a dangerous world of obsession and desire when she discovers a diary containing Ivy's deep and dark secrets in this erotic thriller. As she begins remaking herself into the late Ivy's image and engages in passion affairs, she doesn't realize until it's too late that her powers come with perilous consequences. This thriller also stars Xander Berkeley ("Fracture," "Air Force One") and Camilla Belle ("10,000 BC," "Practical Magic").

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Only a bumbling bank janitor like know-it-all knucklehead Ernest P. Worrell (Emmy® Award-winning comedian Jim Varney) could serve on jury duty and wind up serving time -- in the slammer! The laughs start when a crooked lawyer discovers that Ernest is a dead ringer for his crime-boss client...and before you can say "Framed!" -- the switch is on! While Ernest is behind bars trying to fit in and break out, he manages to turn the big house into a nuthouse full of big laughs. Meanwhile, his evil double is busy taking his place at the bank and in his girlfriend's life! Full of comic inventiveness, a wacky cast of characters, and slam-bang special effects, "Ernest Goes to Jail" is guilty of maximum fun in the first degree!

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Naruto's battle to reclaim his honor begins! Naruto is convicted of a serious crime he didn’t commit and is sent to the inescapable prison, Hozuki Castle. The warden, Mui, quickly seals away Naruto’s chakra to prevent him from rebelling. Refusing to give up, Naruto plans his escape while also befriending his fellow inmates Ryuzetsu and Maroi. But he can't help but wonder what their ulterior motives are...

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Academy Award-winners Jack Lemmon ("Glengarry Glen Ross," "Grumpy Old Men") and Anne Bancroft ("The Graduate," "Agnes of God") are a sweetly melancholic 48-year-old man and his wife who must face the trivial and relentless vexations of New York life when the husband loses not just his job, but also his confidence. From the hilarious hit play by Neil Simon ("The Goodbye Girl"), and featuring Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham ("Amadeus") and superstar Sylvester Stallone.

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Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison is a comedic tale of a stubborn ex-convict with dreams of becoming a world renowned motivational speaker. Two things stand in his way: his attitude and his no-nonsense probation officer.

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While on vacation in Europe, four beautiful young American women are framed for drug smuggling and find themselves held captive in a harsh Turkish prison run by a sadistic commander, unaware that they are to be sold into slavery.

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As the world rages in war and civil strife, CIA agent Carmen Reese arrives at a secret underground prison to interrogate a captured terrorist with links to recent attacks on American soil. But the prisoner is more than he appears – he has arrived from the future with ninety-eight other time travelers who are still at large and wreaking havoc across the globe. Now it’s a race against the clock as Carmen and the prisoner engage in a battle of wills to see whose version of the future will triumph.

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From director Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Thirteen), Prisoner’s Daughter is a gritty, family drama that follows Max (Brian Cox) who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and granted a compassionate release after 12 years in prison with the condition he resides with his estranged daughter, Maxine (Kate Beckinsale). As a single mom desperate for income to raise her only son, Ezra (Christopher Convery), she reluctantly agrees but has no interest in reconciliation or allowing Max to have a relationship with her son. To make matters worse, Maxine also has to contend with Ezra’s father, Tyler (Tyson Ritter), an abusive addict who wants more control of his son's life. As Max seeks one last chance to redeem himself in her eyes, they must contend with his dark, violent past as it comes back to haunt them all.

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After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.

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In this remarkable documentary, filmmaker Brett Story excavates the often-unseen links and connections that prisons – and our system of mass incarceration – have on communities and industries all around us; from a blazing California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires to a Bronx warehouse that specializes in prison-approved care packages to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of new prison jobs to the street where Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson (and to the nearby St. Louis County, where African-Americans are still fending off police harassment, but of a different form). THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES is a film about our criminal justice system in which we never see a penitentiary.

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In 1997, Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus spent a year filming inside of Louisiana’s maximum-security penitentiary. Surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River and spread across 18,000 acres, Angola with 5000 inmates, is one of the oldest and largest prisons in the US. Louisiana doles out sentences so extremes that 95% of those who enter its gates die here. A slave plantation until the end of the Civil War and a prison ever since, Angola was long considered the bloodiest prison in the country. “The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison” intimately captured the day-to-day reality of six men living – and dying – in America’s most infamous penal institution. In the process, it captured their innate humanity, and the relationships and community that they build to sustain one another. By revealing a powerful and universal truth – that to err is human and to forgive, Divine – “The Farm” touched an enormous and receptive audience and garnered many of cinema and broadcast’s top awards, including Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize, three Emmys and an Oscar nomination. When first broadcast on A&E, “The Farm” attracted the largest audience for a documentary feature in the network’s history. “The Farm” was broadcast in 15 countries, including Japan, Australia, and throughout Europe, and has been the basis of educational programs throughout the nation since.

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Easygoing but psychotic Dennis is released from jail, where he has served a sentence for his complicity in a suspicious death. Wandering through an Ozzie & Harriet-type small town, Dennis makes friends with a seemingly normal high schooler, Sue Ann. He lies to her about his imaginary career as a secret agent, and she is thrilled to the point of joining him in his further adventures. Their developing relationship becomes a lethal combination as Sue Ann uses Dennis's undying devotion and his bragging about being a secret agent for her own evil ends.

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Ron Perlman (HELLBOY, "Sons of Anarchy") is electrifying as a corrupt and cold-blooded sheriff in this contemporary western that delivers a double-barreled blast of action. After two deputy sheriffs lose their jobs because of poor arrest records, they purse an escaped convict to try and win back their badges. But nabbing the convict won’t be half as dangerous as facing the ruthless sheriff who is tracking their every move.

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Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and David Niven star in this swashbuckling adaptation of Anthony Hope's classic novel The Prisoner of Zenda. An Englishman (Colman) visiting a small Central European kingdom looks like a twin of that country's crown prince--who is his distant cousin. When the prince is drugged and then kidnapped in a plot to block his coronation, the tourist is enlisted to double as the prince--saving the prince and the country.

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Reina Kisaragi, a news reporter, deliberately gets herself thrown into prison after receiving a tip that Haruna, her missing sister, may be inside. But once imprisoned, she discovers that the inmates are forced to participate in a twisted game, created as a betting ground for the rich and elite. Politicians and CEOs alike gather to watch, as the female prisoners are forced to fight each other to the death. The rule: 15 kills, and release from prison is guaranteed. The women battle desperately to try to earn their freedom, but in order to save her sister, Reina must discover what she is truly capable of.

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From the Oscar-nominated director of“Far from Heaven,” “I’m Not There” and the new HBO mini-series “Mildred Pierce,” this controversial masterpiece is the most fervently debated film of the 1990’s and a trailblazing landmark of Queer Cinema. Todd Haynes’ second feature—after the underground sensation “Superstar:The Karen Carpenter Story”—this groundbreaking American indie is thrilling work of immense visual invention. Inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, Poison deftly interweaves a trio of transgressive tales—“Hero,” “Horror” and “Homo”—that build toward a devastating climax. “Hero,” shot in mock TV-documentary style, tells a bizarre story of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice; “Horror,” filmed like a delirious ’50s B-movie melodrama, is a gothic tale of a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague; while “Homo” explores the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates. A runaway hit which made national headlines when it was attacked by conservative figures including Dick Armey, Ralph Reed and Minister Donald Wildmon, Poison is audacious, unforgettable and thoroughly entertaining.

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Two old friends and fellow resistance fighters are on opposite sides of the table when one of them is ordered to interrogate the other and gain his confession to a string of trumped-up charges.

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Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr star in this swashbuckling adaptation of Anthony Hope's classic novel The Prisoner of Zenda. An English tourist (Granger) visiting a small Balkan kingdom looks like a twin of that country's crown prince. When the royal heir is poisoned and then kidnapped in a plot to block his coronation, the tourist is enlisted to double as the prince--saving the man and the country.

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The Poison Squad tells the story of government chemist Dr. Harvey Wiley. The film charts the path of the forgotten man who laid the groundwork for U.S. consumer protection laws, and ultimately the creation of the FDA.

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The writer, actor, and director Sacha Guitry emerged from the theater to become one of France’s best-known and most inventive filmmakers, and La poison marked his first collaboration with another titan of the screen, the incomparably expressive Michel Simon. With Guitry’s witty dialogue and fleet pacing, the black comedy is the quintessential depiction of a marriage gone sour: after thirty years together, a village gardener (Simon) and his wife (Germaine Reuver) find themselves contemplating how to do away with each other, with the former even planning how he’ll negotiate his eventual criminal trial. Inspired by Guitry’s own post–World War II tangle with the law—a wrongful charge of collaborationism—La poison is a blithely caustic broadside against the French legal system and a society all too eager to capitalize on others’ misfortunes.

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How to Prepare for Prison focuses on the lives of three vastly different people who are steeling themselves against the daunting prospect of serving prison sentences for the very first time. Shot over three years, the film captures their growing psychological trauma as their children and families face poverty and social shame, and the individuals charged face their fears about violence in prison and whether or not they can survive the loss of freedom. All three experience protracted waits for their trials and, whether they've really done the crime or not, feel the enormous power of the law. The film goes beyond the notion of guilt or innocence. By offering an intimate look at the lives and states of mind of those awaiting judgment—filled with regret, defiance and stark fear—it deepens our understanding of the legal system and cultural ideas about crime and punishment. The stakes are high. Lives are changed forever.

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When Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani are sent to prison, Trump seizes the moment to build his next empire. Armed with "Trump Bucks" and outrageous plans, he seeks to rule the prison in this clever and biting political satire.

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The impending demolition of an abandoned prison has the paranormal investigation team "The Skeptic and the Scientist" rushed to spend a locked-in night within the prison's walls before the wrecking balls start swinging turning the now state historical building into condos. Knowing their channel needs views, team leader Matthew (Todd Haberkorn) funds one last-ditch effort in hopes the device science expert Sara (Paris Warner) has invented will be their ticket to fame and fortune. Along with their sound technician Ashley (Coryn Treadwell), cameraman Jacob (Brian Telestai) and guided by their assigned park ranger, the team recorded everything, hoping to capture elusive spirits. What they captured instead will change paranormal investigation forever, and may have even solved a long-standing mystery.

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2014 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Short Subject, Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall breaks through the walls of one of America’s oldest maximum security prisons to tell the incredibly moving story of the final months of the life of a terminally ill prisoner, Jack Hall, and the hospice volunteers, prisoners themselves, who care for him. A poignant account of life and death behind bars that shows how the hospice experience can transform the lives of the incarcerated.

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Stephanie Zimbalist stars as a woman who is wrongfully sent to prison. But that's only the beginning of her ordeal when she learns that the prisoners are wrongfully taken off the grounds and forced into prostitution by the guards who double as pimps.

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Cut Poison Burn is a searing film that illuminates the grim truth about America's so-called War on Cancer. This thought-provoking documentary takes on the forces that have conspired to thwart meaningful advances in cancer research and treatment over the past century. These forces include the federal government (in its effort to label and persecute innovators as quacks), drug companies eager to suppress alternative treatments and powerful industry organizations that place profit over human lives. The story centers on the Navarros, a family struggling to keep their young son alive. The war between the Navarro Family and the FDA is perhaps this country's greatest evidence as to why there should be medical freedom. As the personal meets the political, we see how the FDA holds a vise-like grip on treatment options. Heart-wrenching and informative, the film ultimately expresses the hope that we can create a new paradigm of prevention, medical freedom and acceptance of highly-tailored therapies to usher in a more enlightened era. Over 12 years, 150 hours of footage and interviews with top oncologists, researchers, policy-makers, homeopaths and patients carry the story and reveal that we are on the brink of disaster and in desperate need of reform.

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After a fatal accident, Yu-gon, a former police inspector, is sentenced to hard time in a prison he once helped fill. Once inside, he discovers the entire penitentiary is no longer controlled by the guards, but by a vicious crime syndicate that breaks out at night, using their prison sentences as the perfect alibi to commit intricate heists. Looking for revenge against the system that placed him inside, Yu-gon joins the syndicate... but with every man out for himself, how long can the perfect crime last?

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Convicted of armed robbery, Isa, arrives at the prison. Following her on her daily walk in the yard, it's clear that this is not the first time she has been here. As she embraces Dolores, a blond gipsy who has killed her husband, Rosa, a fragile and tender prostitute, and the other inmates, we feel that she is returning home. Yeserias women's prison houses a number of repeat offenders. Bonded by love and friendship, and dehumanised by the rules and regulations by which they are forced to live, its female inmates have lost the ability to function in a normal society. However, when failed actress Mar arrives to start work at the prison, her ability to see these convicts as people gains her a new kind of trust. Desperate to inspire the prisoners, she starts a theatre group, Modulo 4. This group gives the women a new confidence, and through their performances they find the freedom to express their individual personalities and begin to learn to live as regular people once again.

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Matsu is sheltered by an incestuous prostitute on her run from the police, her ex-prison mate and a cop whose arm she hacked off.

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When a fracking mishap accidentally rips apart the earth's crust, the resulting hole opens up a gaping underground waterway to a vast and mysterious ocean somewhere deep below. Instantly, giant prehistoric sharks begin wending their way upward toward a murky bog in the heart of the Arkansas Bayou. Unfortunately for a group of female prisoners on a work detail in the swamp, the deadly sharks attack without warning - pinning a hapless group of intended victims in a small deserted cabin in the heart of the wetlands. Death may be the only means of escape!

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A cop goes undercover to infiltrate a deadly prison where a team of mercernaries is being assembled.

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Philadelphia native Tommy Oliver follows the efforts of Mike Africa Jr. to exonerate his parents, both incarcerated members of the revolutionary group MOVE.

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After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards who are led by a vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.

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Incarcerated for murder and armed robbery, New York criminals learn to love again by raising puppies behind bars. In this inspirational tale, three selected prisoners battle self-doubt, anger and regret in their attempt to transform dependent pups into service dogs for injured US veterans. Bound together by fate, this uniquely vulnerable trio of puppy, prisoner and veteran come to discover the redemptive power of second chances.

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Working with the PlayStation stimulus word "Share", Uwe Flade crafted the story of two downhearted convicts and their efforts to create an imaginary world within the confines of their prison cell. Explicit.

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Once again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who's trying to find her.

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Aggie is a sweet young songstress having a hard time making it in the sleazy music biz, though it's not nearly as hard as the time she'll have to do for a murder she didn't commit. Yet even in the slammer, the same shady characters responsible for her fiendish frame-up target her. Featuring some of Hollywood's most memorable "bad-girl" performances, you’re sure to get caught up as Aggie fights to be declared innocent before she's silenced forever.

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In the shadows of other dimensions, there lies a nefarious force waging war upon humans for millennia from the space between spaces - a dark force that governs not just our thoughts and actions but our very souls. The very advent of time began the slave master hierarchy between us and those unseen forces behind our every action and thought. They built and created "rules" and systems of thought, created kingdoms and spawned religions used to rule the masses from afar by controlling the ebb and flow of space and time on an epic level. We think we have the right to choose, but we do not.

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On corrections officer struggles against a sadistic penal system and hard-core criminal inmates to improve the brutal conditions Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison.

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On the night of February 15, 2001, Sonia Reich fled her home in Skokie, Illinois, insisting that someone was trying to kill her — to “put a bullet in [her] head." It would take a year for her son, Chicago Tribune journalist Howard Reich, to understand why she was running the streets, fearing for her life. Prisoner of Her Past tracks Howard’s journey across the United States and Eastern Europe to discover why his mother believes that the world has conspired to try to execute her. As Howard learns, Sonia has late-onset Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a little-known but extremely debilitating illness that has pushed her into delusion. However, Sonia remains fully aware of her surroundings, totally alert to the world, thoroughly cognizant of the present. She has no hints of Alzheimer’s disease or any form of dementia. One doctor told Howard, “Dementia would be a relief for your mother, because then she wouldn’t remember.” Sonia’s horrific childhood fleeing the Nazis — about which she told Howard nothing when he was growing up — has come back to haunt her. She believes that yellow Stars of David have been sewn to her clothes, that doctors and nurses are trying to poison her, that her grandchildren have been taken away. Past and present merge in Sonia’s perceptions, and Howard sets out to discover why. He locates the few experts who can explain the obscure phenomenon of late-onset PTSD, and travels to the city of Sonia’s birth, in Ukraine, to uncover the horrors that now haunt his mother. Prisoner of Her Past ventures beyond Sonia’s story, to show what can be done to help traumatized children today. The film looks at victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, an area of special interest to Howard, a jazz critic. Some are benefiting from psychiatric awareness and techniques unavailable to Sonia and children of her generation. Prisoner of Her Past makes it clear that if childhood trauma victims are not helped, they will be retracing Sonia’s steps 60 years from now.

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In un piccolo centro del Casertano, una umile famiglia di agricoltori vive il dramma di un territorio violato, contaminato dai veleni che criminali senza scrupoli hanno disseminato in buona parte di quella provincia. Cosimo, il capofamiglia, e sua moglie Rosaria ostinatamente rifiutano di lasciare che i loro terreni diventino una discarica destinata ai rifiuti tossici: le minacce e le ripercussioni da parte di alcuni esponenti della camorra non li piegano.

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When the Lupin gang gets wind of the news that Finnegan Corbett, fondly referred to as the 'Modern Day Robin Hood' by the public, is finally set to be executed, they travel to Kingdom of Dorrente to break him loose. Can the master thief conquer the notoriously impregnable prison El Guille and “steal” Finnegan? Get ready for an action-packed prison break adventure with Lupin and the gang.

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You're more likely to go to prison in the USA than any other country in the world, so in the unfortunate case it happens to you, this is the SURVIVORS GUIDE TO PRISON. Following the stories of two innocent men who spent decades behind bars for murders they did not commit. Gripping testimony from inmates, guards, staff, cops, analysts, lawyers and reformers, SURVIVORS GUIDE exposes the failed “punishment model” and examines the dramatic programs proven to work.