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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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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
Similar in 78%
Chain Gang Women (1971)
Plot Summary:
A shackled murderer (Michael Stearns) and marijuana offender (Robert Lott) escape from a Georgia chain gang.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, tense, rough, realistic, semi serious, independent film, campy, cult film
Similar in 87%
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
Similar in 79%
Ten Violent Women (1982)
Plot Summary:
Eight women miners get fed up with their lifestyle and decide to try crime. After successfully pulling off a jewelry store robbery, they are busted by narcs when they try to buy cocaine. The eight get sent to a prison where a butch head guard uses the prisoners for her own deviant pleasures. Two of the women manage to escape and then get mixed up with a shah who had a scarab ring stolen in their jewelry heist.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent 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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Escape from Hell (1980)
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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Under Lock and Key (1995)
Plot Summary:
An FBI agent goes undercover in a women's prison to find evidence hidden by a drug dealer's ex-girlfriend. After she is taken off the case, she finds that the drug dealer has kidnapped her daughter. She enlists the help of one of her prison guards, and together they take on the drug dealer's mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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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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Women in Cages (1971)
Plot Summary:
Carol Jeffries is a naive American woman staying in the Philippines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, action thriller, independent film, biting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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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
Similar in 87%
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
Similar in 89%
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
Similar in 77%
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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Opposing Force (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of elite soldiers, including one woman, sign up for the ultimate training mission. The group parachutes onto a remote island, where their objective is to reach the safety zone before the "opposing force" captures them. Everything does not go as expected, and the training mission turns into the real thing.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 933
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, homoerotic, freeze frame
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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
Similar in 85%
Framed (1975)
Plot Summary:
Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed. Joe Don Baker plays Ron, a high-rolling gambler that always seems to loose his big scores. Framed by the film's villains after a big win gambling with high rollers-- Ron is carted off to prison. Upon his release, he embarks upon a carefully calculated campaign of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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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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The Big Doll House (1971)
Plot Summary:
Female prisoners in a Phillippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women--along with the help of two men--plot an escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, art house, cult classic, rough, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic
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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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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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Vendetta (1986)
Plot Summary:
A sexy stuntwoman gets herself thrown into prison to avenge the death of her sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Savage Streets (1984)
Plot Summary:
A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and murdered her best friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, psychotronic, sexy, disturbing, controversial, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic