Movies by Lists - Best of Woman in Prison Movies (59 [92]) 
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| ...and the Wild Wild Women [Nella città l'inferno]A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a female prison environment. The story concerns a young girl sent to prison who experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from tough dangerous dames ... | 1959 | Renato Castellani | Drama | 7.2 (571 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| 99 WomenOff the coast of Panama, there is an island with a female penal colony, run by a sadistic superintendent. When several prisoners mysteriously die, leading to a breakout and mutiny, an extensive investigation of the horrific events be | 1969 | Jesús Franco | Crime, Drama | 4.7 (1.4K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Adam's WomanAdam (Beau Bridges) is a young American wrongly accused of being an accomplice to murder while on shore leave in Liverpool. He is sentenced to death by hanging, but the sentence is commuted to twenty years in a convict settlement in | 1970 | Philip Leacock | Drama | 6.3 (174 votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Amazon Jail [Curral de Mulheres]Edgar, a sex trafficker, sends his men to lure groups of women to his estate in the woods, imprisoning them, and selling them. One strong minded woman refuses to be sold and plots an escape, while convincing other girls to join her. | 1985 | Oswaldo de Oliveira | Action, Crime, Thriller | 3.8 (732 votes) | 99 | 20231001 |
| Bangkok HiltonThe story of Kat Stanton, an Australian woman searching for her father who, whilst travelling back from London to Australia via Thailand, makes friends with Arkie Ragan, a photographer. Kat is tricked into carrying some luggage th... | 1989 | Ken Cameron | Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (5K votes) | 0 | 20231013 |
| Barb WireWomen's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula. | 1976 | Jesús Franco | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 4.6 (1.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Barbed Wire DollsWomen's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula. | 1976 | Jesús Franco | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 4.6 (1.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Barbed Wire Dolls [Frauengefängnis]Women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula. | 1976 | Jesús Franco | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 4.6 (1.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Big Bird Cage, TheGrier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside. | 1972 | Jack Hill | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.9 (2.6K votes) | 88 | 20220315 |
| Big Bust-Out, The [Io monaca... per tre carogne e sette peccatrici]Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out. | 1972 | Ernst Ritter von Theumer | Action, Thriller | 4.5 (212 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Big Doll House, TheBeautiful women prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison, until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with the reluctant help of two male fruit vendors. | 1971 | Jack Hill | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.8 (2.7K votes) | 95 | 20220414 |
| Black Mama, White MamaA black prostitute and a white revolutionary must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison and are pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the army. | 1973 | Eddie Romero | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.6 (3.1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Brokedown PalaceTwo women are arrested for smuggling while vacationing in Thailand. | 1999 | Jonathan Kaplan | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (22.5K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| CagedA gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly and inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence is up? | 1950 | John Cromwell | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.7 (3.9K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Caged HeatIn a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the warden and the corrupt prison doctor. | 1974 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Action, Comedy, Drama | 5.3 (2.5K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Cárcel de mujeresEvangelina asesina a su amante Alberto. En prisión ella conoce a Dora, la novia de Alberto, quien fue privada de su libertad por los negocios ilicitos de él. Una interesante historia esta a punto de tejerse. | 1951 | Miguel M. Delgado | Drama, Crime | 6.9 (89 votes) | 83 | 20220315 |
| Chained HeatYoung Carol Henderson ends up in prison where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs and staff corruption and brutality. | 1983 | Paul Nicholas | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.0 (2.5K votes) | 95 | 20230424 |
| ChasersA hapless Navy sailor is assigned SP duty. The catch: he must escort a beautiful female prisoner on her way to prison for going UA. She in turn will try anything to escape. | 1994 | Dennis Hopper (*) | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.1 (6.5K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Condition RedPrison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape. | 1995 | Mika Kaurismäki | Action, Drama, Thriller | 4.7 (381 votes) | 83 | 20240501 |
| East of Berlin [Convoi de filles]nan | 1978 | Pierre Chevalier, Jesús Franco | Drama, Thriller, War | 3.5 (130 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Escape from Hell [Femmine infernali]A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is dealt with swiftly and savagely. The camp do... | 1980 | Edoardo Mulargia | Adventure, Crime, Thriller | 4.7 (576 votes) | 93 | 20230424 |
| Female Prisoner 701 Scorpion [Joshuu 701-gô Sasori]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. | 1972 | Shun'ya Itô | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (4K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Female Prisoner Scorpion - Jailhouse 41 [Joshû sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô]After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs. | 1972 | Shun'ya Itô | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (2.9K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Gestapo's Last Orgy, The [L'ultima orgia del III Reich]A Jewish WWII survivor revisits the ruins of a hellish concentration camp, and the memories are still vivid. How did she escape the humiliation, the tortures, and the destruction of human flesh? How did she flee from Gestapo's last o | 1977 | Cesare Canevari | Horror, War | 4.4 (1.4K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Girls in PrisonFramed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is b... | 1994 | John McNaughton (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 4.8 (651 votes) | 83 | 20220822 |
| Girls in PrisonAnne Carson, meeting the seamy side of prison life, finds that everyone thinks she knows where unrecovered bank loot is. | 1956 | Edward L. Cahn | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 5.2 (300 votes) | 88 | 20230619 |
| Helga, la louve de StilbergHelga moves the action to South America, where she lords over a castle of female political prisoners, who are stripped and tortured at whim. | 1978 | Patrice Rhomm | Action, Drama, Thriller, War | 3.8 (307 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Hell Behind the Bars [Perverse oltre le sbarre]A woman murders her boyfriend and steals some diamonds he has smuggled. She gets found out though, and locked in a prison with an evil, sadistic bisexual warden. She sets about planning her escape with some of her fellow inmates. | 1984 | Gianni Siragusa | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 3.7 (386 votes) | 82 | 20240630 |
| Hell's HouseJimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions. | 1932 | Howard Higgin | Drama | 6.1 (1.3K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Hotel Paradise [Orinoco - Prigioniere del sesso]Girls kept prisoner under appalling conditions to dig emeralds for an evil tyrant are rescued by revolutionaries disguised as soldiers. | 1980 | Edoardo Mulargia | Action, Adult, Adventure, Drama | 4.4 (335 votes) | 101 | 20240519 |
| House of WhipcordAn old man who lives in an old house conducts a correctional institute for girls. But he does not realize that the date is the present as he's been cooped up in the house. He is assisted by a matron who likes to get the girls into tr | 1974 | Pete Walker | Horror | 5.9 (1.6K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Ilsa She Wolf Of The SSIlsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts "medical experiments." Ilsa's goal is to prove women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the front lines. | 1975 | Don Edmonds | Drama, Horror, Thriller, War | 5.1 (7.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Ilsa The Wicked WardenAfter the mysterious disappearance of her sister, a desperate young woman goes undercover to infiltrate brutal warden Ilsa's mental health facility for the sexually deviant women. | 1977 | Jesús Franco | Drama, Horror | 4.6 (2.4K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil SheiksIn the vast deserts of the Middle East, the lascivious tigress, Ilsa, joins the sex-trafficking ring of a maniacal sheikh who enjoys importing helpless female slaves for his perverse amusement. | 1976 | Don Edmonds | Horror, Thriller | 5.0 (2.8K votes) | 85 | 20220806 |
| Ladies They Talk AboutAttractive Nan, member of a bank-robbery gang, goes to prison thanks to evangelist Dave Slade...who loves her. | 1933 | Howard Bretherton, William Keighley | Drama | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Lady GangsterDot Burton (Faye Emerson) has acted as a decoy in a bank robbery and fails to get away. Her arrest attracts the attention of Ken Phillips (Frank Wilcox), a former childhood sweetheart who believe her innocent until she confesses. But | 1942 | Robert Florey | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 5.8 (619 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Love Camp 7Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there. | 1969 | Lee Frost | Drama, Thriller, War | 3.9 (1K votes) | 96 | 20220806 |
| Lust for FreedomA former female cop is framed by corrupt police, acting in collusion with the local judge, and has to fight her way out of the pen, alone, against tough inmates, and the people in charge. | 1987 | Eric Louzil | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 3.8 (496 votes) | 92 | 20220315 |
| Nazi Love Camp 27 [La svastica nel ventre]As the menacing clouds of WWII spread all over across Europe, a young flaxen-haired Jew woman will witness her idyllic life crumble into pieces as she is rounded up and thrown to forced prostitution at the infamous "joy-camp" 27. | 1977 | Mario Caiano | Drama, Thriller, War | 4.6 (343 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Prison GirlsA prison psychiatrist prepares six female inmates for parole by granting them a weekend furlough, during which each of them has a sexual encounter. | 1972 | Tom DeSimone | Crime, Drama | 4.0 (515 votes) | 93 | 20231207 |
| Prison HeatFour American babes on vacation in the Middle East run into trouble when they are imprisoned by corrupt army officials. | 1993 | Joel Silberg | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 4.1 (993 votes) | 91 | 20240127 |
| Reform School GirlsThey're sexy, they're beautiful, and they're bad. Bad enough to be locked up in Pridemore Juvenile Facility, where there are no windows, no possibility of escape, and no hope. | 1986 | Tom DeSimone | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.3 (2.5K votes) | 94 | 20220315 |
| Riot in a Women's Prison [Prigione di donne]Gorgeous young French tourist Martine gets arrested while on vacation in Italy. After being found guilty of a trumped-up drug possession charge, Martine finds herself incarcerated at a hellish women's penitentiary where the inmates a | 1974 | Brunello Rondi | Crime, Drama | 5.0 (162 votes) | 87 | 20220315 |
| SadomaniaA newly-wed couple in love finds a seemingly desolate place to park the car and make love. Soon, they will face the fearsome warden Magda Urtado's cruel reality. | 1981 | Jesús Franco | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 4.8 (1.1K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Scorpion - Double Venom [Sasori - Joshuu 701-gô]With the law helpless and the authorities unable and unwilling to step in a woman proceeds and takes direct action when as coincidence would have it one of the murdering kidnappers of a her sister becomes a patient in the hospital... | 1998 | Ryôji Niimura | Drama, Thriller, Crime | 5.8 (60 votes) | 91 | 20240306 |
| Sophie's ChoiceSophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. | 1982 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (46.6K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| SS Experiment Love CampNear the end of WW2, prisoners of war are used in experiments to perfect the "Aryan" race. | 1976 | Sergio Garrone | Drama, Thriller, War | 3.5 (1.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| SS Lager 5: L'inferno delle donneDuring the last days of WW2, several female prisoners arrive at Camp 5 to work as sex slaves for officers and guinea pigs for horrific experiments by Nazi doctors who are trying to find a cure for burns. But these women are not going | 1977 | Sergio Garrone | Horror, War | 4.1 (598 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Sweet SugarProstitute Sugar is set up by a corrupt politician. She is convinced of the futility of appealing her case in the courts and signs on to a chain gang run by the notorious Dr. John who performs cruel medical experiments on the people | 1972 | Michel Levesque | Action, Drama | 5.2 (623 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Switchblade SistersThe leader of an inner-city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighborhood. | 1975 | Jack Hill | Action, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (3.6K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Ten Violent WomenEight women miners get fed up with their lifestyle and decide to try crime. After successfully pulling off a jewelry store robbery, they are busted by narcs when they try to buy cocaine. | 1982 | Ted V. Mikels | Action, Crime, Drama | 3.4 (527 votes) | 97 | 20231001 |
| Terminal IslandAfter the abolishment of the death penalty, California murderers are dumped on an island to spend the rest of their lives unsupervised. There, two groups are formed, one lead by a psychopath, and another group determined to bring him | 1973 | Stephanie Rothman | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.2 (1.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Tropical InfernoSomewhere in the jungles of South America mercenaries stop a truck which has allegedly loaded fruit. The cargo turns out to be six young women. Apprehended and handed over to the custody of the local women's prison. | 1978 | Jesús Franco | Action, Crime, Drama, Horror | 4.5 (881 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Virgins from Hell [Perawan di Sarang Sindikat]Two sisters plot for revenge against the drug-lord who murdered their family and took their home, now being used as a base for their experiments on aphrodisiacs. The older sister becomes a prostitute in order to get close to the g... | 1987 | Ackyl Anwari | Action, Crime, Thriller | 5.2 (306 votes) | 93 | 20230830 |
| Werewolf in a Womens PrisonWhen camping with her boyfriend, Sarah is attacked by a werewolf. She wakes up in a corrupt prison only to find out her boyfriend has been torn apart and she is the only suspect. | 2006 | Jeff Leroy | Horror | 4.5 (566 votes) | 83 | 20240504 |
| Women In CagesAmerican women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action. | 1971 | Gerardo de Leon | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.1 (1.6K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Women in Cellblock 9Somewhere in the jungles of South America mercenaries stop a truck which has allegedly loaded fruit. The cargo turns out to be six young women. Apprehended and handed over to the custody of the local women's prison. | 1978 | Jesús Franco | Action, Crime, Drama, Horror | 4.5 (882 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Women's PrisonLife at a 1950s women's maximum security prison where the warden and the guards are as brutal as the inmates. | 1955 | Lewis Seiler | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.5 (864 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Womens Prison MassacreA vehicle transporting dangerous male prisoners crashes near a women's prison run by a corrupt warden. The male prisoners take over the prison and proceed to rape, torture and kill the female inmates. | 1983 | Bruno Mattei, Gilbert Roussel | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 4.7 (1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Bad Girls Dormitory | 1986 | Tim Kincaid | Action, Drama, Horror | 3.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Concrete Jungle | 1982 | Tom DeSimone | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 4.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Femmine in fuga | 1984 | Michele Massimo Tarantini | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Return to Paradise | 1998 | Joseph Ruben | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Caged Heat 3000 | 1995 | Aaron Osborne | Action, Sci-Fi | 3.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Love Child | 1982 | Larry Peerce | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Time Served | 1999 | Glen Pitre | Drama, Thriller | 3.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Slammer Girls | 1987 | Chuck Vincent | Comedy | 4.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Bikini Chain Gang | 2005 | Fred Olen Ray | Comedy | 4.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Joshû shokeinin Maria: Gekijô-ban | 1995 | Shûji Kataoka | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 4.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Go for Broke | 2002 | Jean-Claude La Marre | Comedy | 4.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Sins of the Realm | 2003 | Lloyd A. Simandl | Fantasy, Action, Adventure | 3.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Cellblock Sisters: Banished Behind Bars | 1995 | Henri Charr | Crime, Drama | 3.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Atrapadas | 1984 | AnÃbal Di Salvo | Crime, Drama | 4.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Prison of Secrets | 1997 | Fred Gerber | Crime, Drama | 6.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Thunder County | 1974 | Chris Robinson | Crime, Drama | 3.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Violenza in un carcere femminile | 1982 | Bruno Mattei | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 4.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Last Dance | 1996 | Bruce Beresford | Drama, Thriller | 5.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Swamp Women | 1956 | Roger Corman | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 3.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Johnny Greyeyes | 2000 | Jorge Manzano | Drama | 5.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Against Their Will | 1994 | Karen Arthur | Action, Crime, Drama | 5.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69 | 2008 | Keith J. Crocker | Horror, War | 3.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Die Insel der blutigen Plantage | 1983 | Kurt Raab, Peter Kern | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 4.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Sugar Boxx | 2009 | Cody Jarrett | Crime, Drama | 3.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Paradise Road | 1997 | Bruce Beresford | Drama, History, War | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Mo'Nique: I Coulda Been Your Cellmate | 2007 | James Yukich, Gary Binkow | Comedy | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Crime of Innocence | 1985 | Michael Miller | Drama | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Elsa Fräulein SS | 1977 | Patrice Rhomm | Horror, Thriller, War | 3.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Smashing Bird I Used to Know | 1969 | Robert Hartford-Davis | Crime, Drama | 4.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Nü er gu | 1995 | Jin Xie | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Zendan-e zanan | 2002 | Manijeh Hekmat | Drama | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| A Prisão | 1980 | Oswaldo de Oliveira | Adult, Crime, Drama | 4.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom | 1994 | Cirio H. Santiago | Action, Crime, Thriller | 3.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |