Women in Prison Flix
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1. The Godless Girl (1928)
Passed | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Two teenagers, one an atheist and the other a Christian, fall in love at a brutal reform school.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Lina Basquette, Marie Prevost, Tom Keene, Noah Beery
Votes: 810
2. Ladies of the Big House (1931)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Married couple is imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit.
Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Gene Raymond, Wynne Gibson, Earle Foxe
Votes: 154
3. Ladies They Talk About (1933)
Approved | 69 min | Drama
Attractive Nan, member of a bank-robbery gang, goes to prison thanks to evangelist Dave Slade...who loves her.
Directors: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess
Votes: 1,827
4. Condemned Women (1938)
Passed | 77 min | Drama
Shoplifter Linda Wilson doesn't care much for life inside or outside jail until she starts a relationship with prison psychiatrist Philip Duncan. When the Warden asks her to break off the ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Sally Eilers, Louis Hayward, Anne Shirley, Esther Dale
Votes: 245
5. Girls on Probation (1938)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Jane Bryan, Ronald Reagan, Anthony Averill, Sheila Bromley
Votes: 447
6. Marked Girls (1938)
102 min | Drama
Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not speak of her tumultuous past.
Director: Roger Richebé | Stars: Viviane Romance, Renée Saint-Cyr, Marguerite Deval, Jean Worms
Votes: 28
7. Convicted Woman (1940)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis and a reporter, Jim Brent ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Frieda Inescort, June Lang, Lola Lane
Votes: 285
8. Women Without Names (1950)
89 min | Drama, War
This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for displaced women after the end of World War II. Among them, Anna, a Yugoslav, who has seen her... See full summary »
Director: Géza von Radványi | Stars: Simone Simon, Vivi Gioi, Françoise Rosay, Irasema Dilián
Votes: 72
9. Caged (1950)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A 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?
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson
Votes: 4,706
10. So Young, So Bad (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Drama
A psychiatrist and nurse overthrow the abusive heads of a girls' reform school in order to teach the unfortunate young women that they have a chance at healthy lives.
Directors: Bernard Vorhaus, Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Paul Henreid, Catherine McLeod, Grace Coppin, Cecil Clovelly
Votes: 579
11. House of Women (1962)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama
Drama about a young woman, Erica, who is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years, where she faces deplorable conditions. With the aid of the warden, she sets out to prove her innocence.
Directors: Walter Doniger, Crane Wilbur | Stars: Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford, Barbara Nichols
Votes: 354
12. Reform School Girl (1957)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama
A young man steals a car and ends up involved in a pedestrian fatality. The only witness is a girl he had just met. He threatens her life if she talks, so when she refuses to tell what she knows, she is sent to reform school.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Gloria Castillo, Ross Ford, Edd Byrnes, Ralph Reed
Votes: 306
13. Reform School Girls (1986)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A new group of girls arrives at Pridemore Juvenile Facility, where the brutal warden plays favoritism with a few, and treats the rest like animals. But one girl is not taking this horrible treatment lying down.
Director: Tom DeSimone | Stars: Linda Carol, Wendy O. Williams, Pat Ast, Sybil Danning
Votes: 2,984 | Gross: $2.51M
14. Women's Prison (1955)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A 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.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore, Audrey Totter
Votes: 1,152
15. Betrayed Women (1955)
70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The 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.... See full summary »
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Carole Mathews, Beverly Michaels, Peggy Knudsen, Tom Drake
Votes: 107
16. Untamed Youth (1957)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Follows the vagrant sisters working for crooked characters at a rock 'n' roll prison-farm.
Director: Howard W. Koch | Stars: Mamie Van Doren, Lori Nelson, John Russell, Don Burnett
Votes: 1,360
17. Girls Town (1959)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Silver is a troubled teenage girl sent to a Catholic reform school, where she has trouble fitting in.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé, Ray Anthony, Margaret Hayes
Votes: 1,003
18. Violent Women (1959)
59 min | Crime, Drama
Five female prisoners murder an informer, then escape through a drainpipe into the streets of New York.
Director: Barry Mahon | Stars: Jennifer Statler, Pamela Perry, Pati Magee, Jo Ann Kelly
Votes: 23
19. Why Must I Die? (1960)
86 min | Crime, Drama
Dottie 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. ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Terry Moore, Debra Paget, Bert Freed, Juli Reding
Votes: 149
20. So Evil, So Young (1961)
77 min | Drama
A young girl is framed for a robbery, and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Jill Ireland, Ellen Pollock, John Charlesworth, Jocelyn Britton
Votes: 185
21. School for Unclaimed Girls (1969)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama
A traumatized and troubled teenager is sent to an all-girls detention home where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with a fellow inmate.
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis | Stars: Madeleine Hinde, Renée Asherson, Dennis Waterman, Patrick Mower
Votes: 230
22. 99 Women (1969)
Unrated | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A 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.
Directors: Jesús Franco, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Maria Schell, Luciana Paluzzi, Mercedes McCambridge, Herbert Lom
Votes: 1,593
23. Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
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.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Paul Muller, Monica Swinn, Roger Darton
Votes: 1,503
24. Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977)
X | 90 min | Drama, Horror
After the mysterious disappearance of her sister, a desperate young woman infiltrates brutal warden Ilsa's mental health facility for sexually deviant women. Will she escape the hellhole and live to tell the tale?
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Dyanne Thorne, Lina Romay, Angela Ritschard, Peggy Markoff
Votes: 2,668
25. Hellhole Women (1981)
Unrated | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A 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.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Ajita Wilson, Andrea Guzon, Ursula Buchfellner, Antonio Mayans
Votes: 1,167
26. Black Mama White Mama (1973)
R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Black prostitute and a white revolutionary must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison, then pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the Army.
Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Sid Haig, Lynn Borden
Votes: 3,637 | Gross: $0.19M
27. The Big Bird Cage (1972)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Pam Grier, Anitra Ford, Candice Roman, Teda Bracci
Votes: 3,015
28. The Big Doll House (1971)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Beautiful female prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with reluctant help from two male fruit vendors.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Judith Brown, Brooke Mills
Votes: 3,092 | Gross: $10.00M
29. Women in Cages (1971)
R | 81 min | Action, Crime, Drama
American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.
Director: Gerardo de Leon | Stars: Judith Brown, Roberta Collins, Jennifer Gan, Pam Grier
Votes: 1,936
30. Caged Heat (1974)
R | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the crippled female warden and the corrupt prison doctor.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Juanita Brown, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Ella Reid
Votes: 2,987 | Gross: $0.10M
31. Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom (1994)
R | 72 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A CIA agent attempts to save a captured princess and return her to her father.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Jewel Shepard, Pamella D'Pella, Susan Harvey, Chanel Akiko Hirai
Votes: 451
32. Caged Fury (1983)
R | 89 min | Crime, Drama
North American and Asian women are brainwashed into becoming suicide bombers in an evil Filipino POW camp
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Bernadette Williams, Jennifer Lane, Taaffe O'Connell, Catherine March
Votes: 193
33. Naked Vengeance (1985)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A beautiful woman seeks revenge for tragedy forced upon her family.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Deborah Tranelli, Kaz Garas, Bill McLaughlin, Ed Crick
Votes: 858
34. The Naked Cage (1986)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young woman falsely convicted of a bank robbery is sent to a prison run by a corrupt warden. She struggles to survive the harsh prison life, where violent bullying, sexual assault and drug addiction run rampant.
Director: Paul Nicholas | Stars: Shari Shattuck, Angel Tompkins, Lucinda Crosby, Stacey Shaffer
Votes: 883 | Gross: $3.14M
35. Hellhole (1985)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Horror
A young woman becomes amnesiac after an attack by a hired killer. She's admitted to a mental asylum run by a ruthless doctor who experiments on her patients with a lethal drug, and her attacker just got employed there.
Directors: Pierre De Moro, Tom DeSimone | Stars: Ray Sharkey, Judy Landers, Marjoe Gortner, Richard Cox
Votes: 1,043
36. Switchblade Sisters (1975)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The leader of an inner-city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighborhood.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, Monica Gayle, Asher Brauner
Votes: 4,280 | Gross: $0.05M
37. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Rie Yokoyama, Yayoi Watanabe, Yôko Mihara
Votes: 4,868
38. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Yukie Kagawa, Kayoko Shiraishi
Votes: 3,371
39. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Matsu is sheltered by an incestuous prostitute on her run from the police, her ex-prison mate and a cop whose arm she hacked off.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Mikio Narita, Reisen Ri, Yayoi Watanabe
Votes: 2,103
40. Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song (1973)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Once again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who's trying to find her.
Director: Yasuharu Hasebe | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, Yumi Kanei, Hiroshi Tsukata
Votes: 1,602
41. Shin joshû Sasori: 701-gô (1976)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Nami Matsushima's sister goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, Nami is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's sent to an all women prison where she's not exactly welcome.
Director: Yutaka Kohira | Stars: Yumi Takigawa, Yûsuke Natsu, Yoko Konno, Ichirô Nakatani
Votes: 182
42. Shin joshuu sasori: Tokushu-bô X (1977)
84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A nurse is framed for her involvement in the hospital murder of a politician who was threatening to expose corrupt practices. She escapes from jail but is captured and sent back.
Director: Yutaka Kohira | Stars: Yôko Natsuki, Takeo Chii, Masashi Ishibashi, Junkichi Orimoto
Votes: 132
43. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat (1991 Video)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman, disguised as a beggar, turns out to be a formidable assassin.
Director: Toshiharu Ikeda | Stars: Naoko Amihama, Dump Matsumoto, Junko Miyashita, Yûko Mizushima
Votes: 25
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