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Plot Summary:
A young Frenchwoman Claire, resting with her friend on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, becoms the victim of harassment by the local police commissioner Castes. Accused for disturbing public order, and then in the drug trade, she gets to the women's prison. Vacation turns into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
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Children of Chaos (1989)
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"Les Enfants Du Désordre " depicts a lost generation ,a distraught youth who finds comfort in drugs .Marie ,an unwed young mother, a former junkie- prostitute, is in a reformatory school :she has been a misfit for most of her life. If hope can survive ,it's thanks to an educator who tries to pass his love of theater on to them.There's some kind of platonic love between them:anyway it seems that Marie is through with love and men .However the young girl becomes attached to Pierre,a delinquent.When he is arrested after stealing a car ,she escapes from the center, takes refuge in her former partner's place and falls in the hellish world of drugs again.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
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Stop Me Here (2015)
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Samson Cazalet, Taxi driver in his thirties, picks up a client at the airport. The same evening, the daughter of the woman disappears and the overwhelming evidence points to Samson. How can he prove his innocence when he is the ideal suspect?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
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Happy Day (1976)
Plot Summary:
A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled prisoners. The everyday life of the people who live there consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments. One of the prisoners who refuses to yield is subjected to torture. Trying to escape, he falls into the sea. When the Queen visits the island, the prison guards find the runaway and murder him without a second thought, since he is already assumed dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: absurd, allegory
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Lovers of Devil's Island (1973)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Mizhikal Sakshi (2008)
Plot Summary:
A mother finds it hard to believe that her son is convicted as a terrorist and is sent to gallows. Eventually, she loses her mental balance.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching
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Caged Beauties (1993)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of an oppressive revolutionary government randomly arresting unsuspecting citizens. The men are used to target practice and the women become prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
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Kanarifuglen (1973)
Plot Summary:
Together with colleagues Jan goes to a seminar on the Canary Islands. Already on the first day we starts an erotic relation to a stewardess, and during a swim with his boss his life changes dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min
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Crime Of Innocence (1985)
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Two teenage girls are locked up for a minor offence by a harsh judge who thinks a night in jail will do them good. It's a traumatizing experience that includes an assault. Afterwards, one of the girls and her family seek justice against an unfair legal system.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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The Count of Monte-Cristo: Great Revenge (2018)
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Wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years despite his innocence, Dan Saimon manages to get out of his imprisonment at the risk of his own life, and makes a thrilling return as a fresh new character. This is a drama about a man, who, through his elaborate maneuvers and various clever entrapments fulfills his passionate revenge against those who stripped away all his glories. He seeks for the light that he had been striving for.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
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Excessive Torture in a Female Prison Camp (1976)
Plot Summary:
The film centers around a Korean family who gets on the bad side of the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II.A Korean mother and daughter are thrown into a prison run by the Japanese and a lot of surprisingly tame abuse is heaped upon them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
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Dumont's Case (2012)
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Michel Dumont is charged, judged and sentenced for a rape he denies ever having committed. While he serves his time in prison, Solange, who he fell in love with during his trial, embarks on the colossal task of proving his innocence and having the court rehabilitate him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 121 min
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Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991)
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Three novels - three dramatic stories in the walls of the women's prison. The first story - a brand new, first went to prison inmates. The second - about a mother whose son has ceased to go to prison for visits. The third - about the experiences of women on the eve of its release.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult film
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Silent Grace (2001)
Plot Summary:
In 1976 the British Government put an end to the special category status of prisoners from the Provisional Irish Republican Army, no longer treating them as prisoners of war, but as common criminals. Mairéad Farrell - on whose life much of the film seems to be loosely based - was the first woman Republican to be refused political status in 1976. By 1980, when the film is set, Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister and doggedly resolute: “There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime.” Silent Grace seeks to capture the struggle for the restoration of political status that was at the heart of prison protests in Northern Ireland - not just by the more celebrated male prisoners - but by a smaller number of women prisoners, led by Farrell, at the Armagh Women’s Prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 87 min
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Women's Prison (1974)
Plot Summary:
This film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to reenter society-are brought to the limits of depravity. Martine, wrongly imprisoned will bear the scars of a prison system wrongly based on punishment rather than rehabilitation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexploitation film
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Caged Hearts (1995)
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Kate and Sharon kill a man in self defense and are framed by the justice system. They are put in prison and forced into prostitution. With the help of their defense attorney, they devise a plan to bust out of prison and hopefully expose the group of corrupt politicians, judges, lawyers, etc. who put them there in the first place.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Women in Chains (1972)
Plot Summary:
1972 ABC Movie of the Week. Lady parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality, but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is killed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Children's Rebellion (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would (at the very least) go to prison, regardless of their age. However, people of conscience were beginning to protest against this situation. The story takes place in a prison for children where conditions are particularly harsh. The warden is a thick-headed martinet who demands complete compliance with the rules, or the children will be brutally dealt with. The assistant warden is a more modern man, and is appalled by the whole institution, but seeks to begin by reforming it. To that end, he has invited a journalist to come and see the conditions that prevail there, in the hopes that she will rouse public opinion against at least this one form of injustice.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
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Adam's Woman (1970)
Plot Summary:
Adam 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 Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Women in Prison (1988)
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Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow murderess who receives special treatment from the warden Dessombes (Marie-Christine Barrault). The warden frames Nelly (Bernadette Lafont) for drug possession and has her thrown into solitary confinement. Sabien (Corinne Touzet) is a newcomer convicted of armed robbery who latches on to the lesbian Lucie (Milva), a longtime prisoner slated for release.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Left to Die (2012)
Plot Summary:
With help from U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, Tammi Chase (Rachael Leigh Cook) fights to free her mother (Barbara Hershey) from an Ecuadorean prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Tanya's Island (1980)
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Tanya is a female model who lives with her boyfriend Lobo, a surrealist painter who is extremely violent. Subjected to Lobo's constant abuse, Tanya dreams of escaping to a desert island, which comes true. The only other being on her island is an enormous blue-eyed man-ape who was born from one of Lobo's paintings.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film
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The Detention Girls (1969)
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A pretty young college student is arrested during a demonstration. She is taken to a notorious detention center, where she is subjected to sexual harassment by lesbian inmates and guards, and becomes the target of a sadistic, bullwhip-wielding warden.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Butterfly in Grey (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dao returns home and finds her fiance in bed with another woman. She shoots them dead on the spot. She is sentenced to 10 years in prison. She gets out eventually and stays with a friend who runs an escort service and learns that women are even caged in the outside world.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Come to My Voice (2014)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of two women on opposite ends of a lifetime, a very young, curious Jiyan and her life-weary but resistant grandmother Berfe, in order to save the person who links them to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, fairy tale
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Jailbirds (2015)
Plot Summary:
In order to save the man she loves from jail, Mathilde takes his place by helping his break-out. While she exclusively relies on him to survive in this prison setting, Mathilde has not heard from him since her imprisonment. Isolated, with her son as her only support, she is now identified by the inmate number 383205-B. Will Mathilde become a convict like any other one?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, sentimental, captivating
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So Evil, So Young (1961)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl is wrongfully accused of theft and is sent away to a harsh reform school.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: noir, grindhouse, serious, realistic
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Girls in Prison (1994)
Plot Summary:
Framed 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 befriended by other "lifer" inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, erotic, campy
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Three Brothers (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come: Raffaele imagines his death, Rocco dreams of lifting the youth of Naples out of violence, drugs, and corruption, Nicola pictures embracing his estranged wife. Meanwhile, the old man and his young granddaughter explore the rhythms of the farm and grieve together.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Equity (2016)
Plot Summary:
Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop’s world of high-power big money is brutal and fierce, and one she thrives in. When a controversial IPO threatens the fragile balance of power and confidentiality, Naomi finds herself entangled in a web of politics and deception.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, captivating, suspense
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Tangier (2006)
Plot Summary:
In August 1996, bus drivers Marcel Van Loock and Wim Moreels are apprehended by the Moroccan Customs for drug trafficking. Inside their bus, hidden behind a false compartment, they have discovered 700 pounds of hashish. Although the owner of the bus company is arrested as well and makes a full confession clearly indicating that both drivers were unaware of the hidden drugs, the Moroccan judge sentences both men to 5 years in the Moroccan prison of Tangiers. Nothing could have prepared the two men for life inside a Moroccan prison. Without food, clothes or medical care, they must learn how to take care of themselves to survive their stay in prison. Corrupt guards, corrupt lawyers and judges, a consul who doesn't care and frequent beatings are only part of the terrible prison. Meanwhile their families at home are left without any information, any help or any hope - finding out that their own government doesn't care for Belgian people in prisons abroad.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, bleak, realistic