Als die junge und naive Thymian ein uneheliches Kind zur Welt bringt, wird sie von ihrer Familie ausgestoßen und in ein Heim gesteckt. Dort...

A petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, the intertwining lives of the thief, the lawyer,...

William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views...

Ein Lehrer nimmt vorübergehend eine Stelle in der Jugendstrafvollzugsanstalt von Palermo an. Nur mühsam kann er das Vertrauen der...

Der leicht einfältige, buckelige Gotho arbeitet in der Leichenhalle des Krankenhauses von Feldkirch. Seine einzige Freundin ist ein krankes...

Berit, eine junge Frau, steht am Hafen und stürzt sich in das Meer. Doch der Selbstmordversuch misslingt ihr und sie wird von einem...

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed...

On a Christmas Eve, a lifeless body of teenage boy is found. The victim's revenge-driven twin brother checks himself into a juvie to hunt down the...

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...

A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in...

The title character, played by Bonita Granville, is the secretary at a boys' reformatory. Sociology professor Noah Beery Jr. shows up to study the...

A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.

A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are...