Everynight... Everynight(1995)

Everynight... Everynight is an Australian drama film from 1994 that examines the brutal reality of prison life through the eyes of Christopher Dale Flannery, a contract killer awaiting trial in Melbourne's maximum security H Division. Directed by Alkinos Tsilimidos and based on Ray Mooney's stage play, the film documents Flannery's descent into the prison system's machinery of violence. Subjected to repeated beatings and institutional cruelty, Flannery gradually hardens, developing subversive ways to survive and channel his rage. As he navigates the dehumanising corridors of HM Prison Pentridge, a portrait emerges of a man who refuses to be broken by the system designed to contain him. The film becomes a stark critique of the correctional system's failure to reform, instead revealing how it strips away humanity while paradoxically strengthening the defiance of those it imprisons.