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Plot Summary:
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 doctor is horrified at what he sees happening, and drinks heavily to push the horror away. Finally the inmates have had had enough, and they enlist the help of the doctor to try and escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 624
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, rough, captivating, grindhouse, sensual, bleak, serious, realistic, psychotronic
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Hell Behind the Bars (1984)
Plot Summary:
A woman murders her boyfriends and steals some diamonds he has smuggled. She gets found out though, and locked in a prison with an evil sadistic lesbian warden. She immediately sets about planning her escape with some of her fellow inmates, but the plans are even more difficult than they seemed when set in motion.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexploitation film
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Women Behind Bars (1975)
Plot Summary:
A 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.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, sensual, terrifying, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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The Island of the Bloody Plantation (1983)
Plot Summary:
An adventure movie by Kurt Raab.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Philippines
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, gay cinema
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Love Camp (1977)
Plot Summary:
A group of women are kidnapped by guerrillas and brought to a jungle brothel where they are forced to work as prostitutes for the soldiers. Those who refuse to cooperate are decapitated by the cruel, sadistic wardress of the camp, who is privately interested in some of the women herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sensual, sexploitation film
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Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom (1994)
Plot Summary:
King Lim is the oppressive ruler of a country on the verge of revolution. The CIA arranges a fake assassination to get him safely out of the country, but his daughter is captured in the ensuing melee and sent to The Rock, an island penitentiary known for its harshness. Agent Amanda commits a local crime in order to infiltrate the prison and rescue Princess Marga. Within, she predictably encounters official corruption, shifting allegiances, and a sleazy warden that make her task more challenging.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Savage Island (1985)
Plot Summary:
Women who have been captured and sold as slave labor to a South American emerald mine hatch a plan for revolution and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Caged Women in Purgatory (1991)
Plot Summary:
Former Miss Spanish Basque Country, Pilar Orive, stars as American Janet Cooper who is drugged and shipped to a remote women's prison managed by a sleazy warden and a Nazi-type lesbian guard. 90 minute of graphic sexual abuse ensue.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Portugal
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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The Naked Cage (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, sensual, cult classic, independent film, sexploitation film
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The Concrete Jungle (1982)
Plot Summary:
An unfortunate and naive girl is set-up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sent to a women's correctional facility where she must constantly struggle to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, soap opera, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film, cult film
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Cave (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of former military elites set out to explore an uncharted abyss, not knowing their worst nightmare is waiting for them deep beneath the ground.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing
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Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)
Plot Summary:
After killing her father who had attempted to rape her, Maria da Guerra is sentenced to prison for life. The wardress is a sadistic lesbian without mercy or humanity. Upon her arrival Maria is taken to a special section for mentally disturbed prisoners where torture and rape are part of the day-to-day reality. One day the Regional Governor arrives, claiming to have received a letter from one of the prisoners describing incredible events in the prison. The writer of the letter was clearly unaware that the Governor is also part of the conspiracy. Carlos Costa, a male nurse pretending to be the prison doctor Moore, falls in love with Maria. After seducing him, Maria kills him with a pair of scissors and escapes with her friends Bertha and the disturbed Rosario, hoping to find safety in the Governor's house, unaware that he will not help them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, erotic, rough, sexy, suspenseful, sadistic, sensual, perverse, twisted
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Hotel Paradise (1980)
Plot Summary:
At a female prison located deep within the deadly South American jungles, a group of woman are forced to mine for valuable emeralds for the local corrupt government. A group of new prisoners on the way to the jail are ambushed and are convinced to join a group of revolutionaries seeking to overthrow the prison guards and take the treasure of jewels for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scenic, sensual, sexploitation film
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99 Women (1969)
Plot Summary:
Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionally hilarious as sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz, spitting tacky dialogue with exuberant venom in a performance so overbearing that it verges on classic. The plot is standard for the genre, as three women (Maria Rohm, Elisa Montes, Luciana Paluzzi) are sentenced to an island prison off the Panamanian coast, only to encounter torture, rape, and lesbianism. When sympathetic Warden Caroll (Maria Schell) replaces Diaz, the prisoners assume that conditions will improve, but their agony only worsens until they decide to escape. Rosalba Neri co-stars, and Herbert Lom runs the corrupt men's prison nearby. 99 Mujeres was heavily censored in various prints, with versions running anywhere between 70 and 108 minutes. Edits running 84, 86, and 94 minutes are most commonly available.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, sensual, cult classic, explicit, independent film, rough
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Hell Penitentiary (1984)
Plot Summary:
When her sister turns up dead, Julia (Linda Jones) tries to convince the cops that a notorious gangster is to blame by going undercover as a prisoner to unearth the only witness to the crime. Problems arise when the sexually perverse warden (Rita Silva) adopts Julia as her new plaything and throws her noble mission off-course. Ajita Wilson and Alessandro Freyberger co-star in this erotically charged thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Women's Prison Massacre (1983)
Plot Summary:
Emanuelle, a reporter, comes just a little too close to exposing a corrupt official, and is sent to prison on trumped-up charges. In the prison, the inmates are constantly humiliated and tortured by the prison staff. Overly affectionate prisoners are forced underwater, while others are obliged to look on. Emanuelle finds an enemy in the deranged Albina, who "runs the prison." For the pleasure of the warden, Emanuelle and Albina are forced to fight each other with knives. Bad becomes worse when four men awaiting execution escape and take over the prison. Gore flows like water.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, sensual, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, erotic, sexy
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Hellhole Women (1981)
Plot Summary:
Soon after newlyweds Olga and Michel set foot on the grounds of a notorious women's prison, they're arrested by topless guards and ushered behind bars where the warden quickly dismisses Michel but demands that Olga do a little time.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, disturbing, sensual, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, controversial
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Jackson County Jail (1976)
Plot Summary:
This is a powerful drama about a young woman who stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, road movie, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Black Mama White Mama (1973)
Plot Summary:
When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, realistic, rough, serious, psychotronic, psychological, slasher, cult classic, independent film, exciting
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Locked Up (2017)
Plot Summary:
When an American teenager gets bullied at her school in Southeast Asia, she fights back--and gets sent to a reform school. But the "school" is more like a prison, and the young teenager must fend off predatory guards and menacing gangs to survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, art house, mockbuster
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Chained Heat II (1993)
Plot Summary:
An American tourist lands in a Slavic prison run by a twisted woman and the U.S. ambassador.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, grindhouse, sensual, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, sexual, psychotronic
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Reform School Girls (1986)
Plot Summary:
Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, entertaining, cult classic, grindhouse, sexual
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Hitch Hike (1977)
Plot Summary:
A bickering couple driving cross-country pick up a murderous hitchhiker whom threatens to kill them unless they take him to a santuary, and in return agrees to split some bank loot he has on him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, independent film, grindhouse, road movie, serious, psychotronic, poliziottesco, depressing
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Lust for Freedom (1987)
Plot Summary:
A 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.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, independent film, cult film
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Jailbait (2014)
Plot Summary:
A gritty coming of age thriller about a young girl sent to juvenile prison for the murder of her abusive step father. The film follows Anna Nix's journey into the dark world of an all girls jail where she discovers complex relationships, drugs, mental illness and her eventual search for redemption.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, rough, erotic, suspense, art house, crime drama, realistic, serious, psychological, mockbuster
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Women in Fury (1984)
Plot Summary:
The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in some Latin American country. In the prison she gets brutally "initiated" by the other inmates. The nice, honest and handsome prison doctor believe she's innocent and tries to help her out.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexploitation film, campy
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Chained Heat (1983)
Plot Summary:
Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after drink driving and killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling lesbian rapists and the guards and warden are no better.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychotronic, grindhouse, erotic, neo noir, sensual, cult classic, rough, bleak, serious
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The Big Bird Cage (1972)
Plot Summary:
Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, erotic, parody, sexy
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Emmanuelle in Hell (1982)
Plot Summary:
Emanuelle goes undercover into a prison to expose the corrupted officials who are brutalizing the inmates. Emanuelle is shocked by the horrors and humiliation the prisoners are subjected to, but when her true identity is discovered, she finds herself at the receiving end.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 959
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, bloody, suspense, cult classic, disgusting, erotic
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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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Civil Brand (2002)
Plot Summary:
Forced to work under slave-like conditions in a "prison for profit" program, the inmates of a mostly-African-American female prison, Whitehead Correctional, try to take over the institution. At the core of the story is Frances, who finds herself in prison after being falsely convicted of murder, and who is told that her baby has been murdered, sparking her to lead her fellow inmates in the protest.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, disturbing, thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hood, independent film