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Plot Summary:
Japanese lady gets framed for killing her man and is shipped off to prison in California. She escape and seek vengeance against those who wronged them.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Zero Woman: Dangerous Game (1998)
Plot Summary:
In this installment of the Zero Woman series, Rei, the number-one assassin of the Tokyo Police Department's secret Zero Division, has been assigned to take out a notorious gangster responsible for dozens of murders. At the same time, she must protect the gangster's mistress from the hitmen who want to keep her from telling the police what she knows. At first, both women are upset about the arrangement, but they eventually come to appreciate each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Zero Woman (1995)
Plot Summary:
A gang of young thieves try to rob a mob boss, but their heist is interrupted by an officer of the Tokyo Police Department's elite Zero Division. They get away with the loot, but the officer, a beautiful, more-than-slightly psychotic young woman who also happens to be an excellent shot, is tracking them down. To bring the case to a successful conclusion, she must deal with rival crime gangs, small- time crooks, and the wavering loyalties of her own partner.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: manga, crime drama
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Zero Woman: The Accused (1997)
Plot Summary:
Rei, the deadly but reluctant assassin for the Zero Division of the Tokyo Police Department, befriends a young man after she sees him cruising a gay bar looking for johns. After he gets beaten up by a group of street thugs, she takes him in to live with her. When a series of vicious murders takes place, she begins to suspect that the killer may actually be her friend taking revenge on everyone who has abused him. Will she uphold her duty to the police, or protect her only friend?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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New Female Prisoner Scorpion: Special Cellblock X (1977)
Plot Summary:
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, resulting in the rest of the inmates being punished, added to which of a new, tougher, head of security arrives to take up her new job.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Scorpion: Double Venom 2 (1998)
Plot Summary:
Nami Matsushima has escaped from the prison to which she was sentenced in Scorpion, but is now obsessed with tracking down the--don't laugh--one-armed man who murdered her younger sister fifteen years ago. Nami is certainly no great action heroine, and the plot at times makes little sense, climaxing with a coincidence more ridiculous than any Shakespeare ever used. For complicated reasons, Nami uses her medical knowledge to break into a women's prison as staff physician. There, as in the previous movie, the convicts wind up naked awfully frequently.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Women's Reformatory (1986)
Plot Summary:
Laura Regueira is wrongly accused of the murder of her boyfriend, he was killed by a band of thugs the night they were sharing a romantic moment. In the woman's reformatory Laura, besides of having to endure the life of prisoner, will have the chance of prove her innocence, with the help of a police officer who believes she's innocent Laura has the chance of uncover a band involved in drug traffic. These delinquents also use the women captive in the penitentiary as prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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New Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701 (1976)
Plot Summary:
Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine 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. Her fellow inmates torture, humiliate and try to kill her; but the Scorpion prevails long enough to get some justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Prisoner Maria: The Movie (1995)
Plot Summary:
Convicted of killing the drug dealer who murdered her husband, Maria is blackmailed into serving as a covert assassin. She must do the government's bidding if she is ever to regain her freedom, or her son. With each completed mission, her sentenced is further re- duced. Yet, with every job she feels further away from her goal of a peaceful life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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Scorpion: Double Venom (1998)
Plot Summary:
Nami Matsushima, a former doctor, is put in prison for murdering one of the men who raped and killed her sister. Now, faced with violent and lecherous prison gangs, an aggressively amorous warden, and with a friend on death row, Nami must steel herself for a ten year stay in one of Japan's toughest women's prisons.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags:
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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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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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Caged Fury (1983)
Plot Summary:
At a hidden prison camp deep in the jungles of South East Asia, some devious Vietnamese commies are kidnapping beautiful women and brainwashing them into becoming subliminally-activated suicide bombers to further their evil aims abroad. Help isn't going to be coming anytime soon, so the all-female inmates must engineer their own escape any which way they can.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cellblock Sisters: Banished Behind Bars (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sam Connor kidnaps his young daughters, April and May, sells them to strangers, and accidentally kills his wife when she attempts to intervene. Sixteen years later, April is an out of control outlaw who has come into a life of drugs and crime, while May has grown into a straight laced, refined woman. The plot thickens when April avenges her mother's death by killing her father, and May is sent to jail as the prime suspect. Fortunately, Detective Arman, instantly taken with May, fights for her innocence and tries to get her out before she is taken down by other hostile prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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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)
Plot Summary:
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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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
Plot Summary:
Matsu, known to the prisoners as Scorpion, is locked away in the bowels of the prison as revenge for disrupting the smooth operation of the prison and for her disfiguring attack on the warden. Granted a one day reprieve due to the visit of a dignitary, she takes advantage and attacks the warden again. This leads to more brutal punishment and humiliation. But the punishment gives her an oppurtunity to escape along with six other female prisoners. Their surreal flight from prison pits the convicts against the guards, the warden and each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, slasher, cult classic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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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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Fugitive Rage (1996)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film
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Women in Prison (1988)
Plot Summary:
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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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
Plot Summary:
Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, slasher, cult classic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
Plot Summary:
After being cruelly set up by a crooked detective named Sugimi (Isao Natsuyagi), whom she loved, Nami Matsushima (aka Matsu the Scorpion) (Meiko Kaji) is sentenced to do hard time in a women's prison, which is run by sadistic and horny male guards. There are 700 other prisoners, making Matsu number 701. Her crime was making a failed attempt to stab Sugimi on the steps of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters because he used her to win favor with the Yakuza. While in prison she meets inmates like Yuki Kida (Yayoi Watanabe) who was committed for fraud and theft, Otsuka (Akemi Negishi), jailed for burglary and extortion, and Katagiri (Rie Yokoyama) who has been impounded for arson and illegally disposing of a body.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse, erotic, slasher, manga, crime drama, cult classic
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The Detention Girls (1969)
Plot Summary:
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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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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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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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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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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Prison Heat (1993)
Plot Summary:
Four American babes on vacation in the Middle East run into trouble when they are imprisoned by corrupt army officials and that's where the fun begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 985
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, erotic, sexy, grindhouse, independent film
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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