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- DirectorJohn CromwellStarsEleanor ParkerAgnes MooreheadEllen CorbyA gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly, 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?
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsIda LupinoJan SterlingCleo MooreA sadistic prison warden takes out her sexual frustration on her women inmates. While a caring physician tries to improve the jail's brutal atmosphere, a pair of rebellious inmates take matters into their own hands.
- DirectorJesús FrancoBruno MatteiStarsMaria SchellLuciana PaluzziMercedes McCambridgeA new female inmate at an island prison is abused by fellow convicts and staff, and her disillusionment with the new warden prompts her to join in an attempted breakout and mutiny.
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsSerge ReggianiJean DavyMonique MélinandStory takes place in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsCarole MathewsBeverly MichaelsPeggy KnudsenThe governor appoints lawyer Jeff Darrow to open an investigation on the reported cruelties inflicted on the inmates of the Bayou Reformatory For Women. The investigation is opposed by Mrs. Ballard, head of the prison, whose moronic brother, Cletus, is keeper of the prison bloodhounds. Nora Collins, once engaged to Jeff, but now an inmate because she had stolen to protect her brother, is resentful of prison methods and particularly bitter against the sadistic methods of a brutal prison guard named Darcy. Honey Blake and Kate unsuccessfully try to use Cletus in an escape attempt. But they try a second escape using Jeff, Nora and Mrs. Ballard as hostages. Mabry, Kate's gangland lover, hears of the escape and knowing she will go where she had hidden $50,000 gets there ahead of her.
- DirectorElmo WilliamsStarsBeverly MichaelsJim DavisJoan RiceU.S. State Department agent Kent Foster, on the trail of a murderous traitor, Nick Randall, hopes to trap Randall through singer/stripper Angela Booth. The latter has promised to marry Randall on New Year's Eve even though she is not to see him until then. However, she lands in prison after a quarrel with influential Julius Lord, during which she defended herself with a broken mirror. Foster arranges for her escape with the aid of "Granny" Ramsey in hope that she will lead him to Randall. The plan is snarled when another girl prisoner with her infant joins the escape and Angel slips away. She manages to meet Randall, and, when he slaps her, she realizes that all she has heard about him is true.
- DirectorRenato CastellaniStarsAnna MagnaniGiulietta MasinaCristina GaioniA 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 to smaller submissive women who are totally lost in prison life.
- DirectorEwald André DupontStarsHelen WalkerRoss ElliottSusan MorrowReform school for rich girls behaving badly, is a good cover for the misbehaving adults in charge.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsSusan HaywardSimon OaklandVirginia VincentA prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsTerry MooreDebra PagetBert FreedDottie Manson commits a murder for which club singer Lois King is arrested, tried, and condemned to die. The story line wanders through the trial and Miss King's final hours on Death Row. The true killer is finally ready to confess, but already Miss King (who has by now been strapped into the electric chair) is at risk. Will she be rescued in the nick of time?
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsDiana DorsYvonne MitchellMichael CraigWoman abused by men meets a man she thinks loves her. He cheats, she kills his mistress. Based on Ruth Ellis, last woman executed in Britain. Less than
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsLina RomayMartine StedilNathalie ChapeA small-time hood brings the attention of the law with an insurance scam and diamond theft, but things become even more interesting when his moll murders him and is slammed behind bars where she faces all manner of electric shock treatments to various parts of her anatomy.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsMarcia HendersonPeter WalkerKatherine BarrettFramed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.
- DirectorElmo WilliamsBert GlazerStarsBeverly MichaelsJoan RiceThora HirdComedy and drama as three women, including one with her baby, escape from prison.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsGlynis JohnsDiana DorsJohn GregsonFrank "women in prison" story that sympathetically tracks several inmates through their imprisonment and subsequent return to society. Some are successfully rehabilitated; some are not.
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsJune HavocJohn RussellDorothy HartAfter gang leader Rick is killed, his wife Molly takes over his gang but a robbery goes wrong and Molly finds herself in jail where she undergoes a personal transformation.
- DirectorBruno MatteiStarsLaura GemserGabriele TintiMaria RomanoPhotojournalist Emanuelle goes undercover into a woman's prison, where she discovers and experiences the abuse, torture and humiliation the inmates are subjected to.
- DirectorRino Di SilvestroStarsAnita StrindbergEva CzemerysOlga BiseraA woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.
- DirectorBrunello RondiStarsMartine BrochardMarilù ToloErna SchurerYoung French tourist Martine gets falsely accused of drug possession in Italy. She's imprisoned in a brutal women's prison where inmates face abuse from staff and other prisoners. A riot erupts, intensifying the ordeal.
- DirectorGodfrey HoStarsLi-Yun ChenShou-Ping TsuiChia-Fen LiuWomen prisoners are tortured, whipped, beaten and humiliated inside a WWII detention camp. The commander of the camp (Shou-Ping Tsui) and his aides (Yvonne Wang and Celia Kong) interrogate the prisoners looking for some important microfilm. Meanwhile, some of the prisoners hatch a plan to escape the camp.Even the trees attack the prisoners at one point.
- DirectorMichele Massimo TarantiniStarsSuzane CarvalhoRossana GhessaGloria CristalThe young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in a Brazilian prison. Whilst there she is brutally "initiated" by the other inmates. The nice, honest and handsome prison doctor believes she's innocent and tries to help her.
- DirectorGianni SiragusaStarsAjita WilsonRita SilvaLinda JonesJulia, a medical student, infiltrates a prison to find the witness to what she believes was her sister's killing. In the midst of violent inmates and corrupt officials, her inquiry risks to end suddenly - by her own death.
- DirectorManijeh HekmatStarsRoya NonahaliRoya TeymourianPegah AhangaraniSpanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing. The warden's attitude starts to change after 8 years, when Mitra tries to protect a new inmate from rape at the hands of her older cellmates. When the baby comes back in 1991 as a 17 year old delinquent, Sepideh, the warden respects Mitra enough to protect the girl.
- DirectorMaurice ClocheStarsDanièle DelormeJacques DubyVega VinciAlice Rémon, a pharmacist, is a prostitute who managed to leave the streets by getting married. Her husband dies one day, poisoned. Her mother-in-law, who hates her, accuses her of murder.
- DirectorKamran ShirdelA documentary which study the situation and the conditions of the women's prison and the prisoners.