A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape. Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from ...

A semi-fictional account of Henri Charrière's time in the penal system in French Guyana - some of it spent on infamous Devil's Island - is presented. It's the early 1930s. Charrière - nicknamed ...

Danish director Michael Noer's “Papillon “ remake, adapted from both Henri Charriere's autobiography and the 1973 Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman film, is a sumptuous-looking but slow-moving prison ...

There’s a lot of ugliness at work in the prison drama “Papillon,” but like its butterfly namesake, something beautiful and delicate emerges from its well-spun chrysalis. And that’s the unlikely ...