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Plot Summary:
Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly imprisoned, while the neighbor whose testimony put her away struggles with guilt. A tongue-in-cheek homage to 1950s women-in-prison films.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo noir
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Underdogs (2007)
Plot Summary:
In Brunnenberg prison for men, the new warden introduces a revolutionary convict re-socializing project: training guide dogs for the blind. The perks make all convicts volunteer for only seven slots. Except burly macho Moskowitch 'Mosk', who cares only for the manly work out contest. The warden blackmails him, he can only do the contest if his assigned pup passes the first test. All dogs must pass or the project is halted. Unlike the others, Mosk only starts caring for his canine when it gets sick.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
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Night Train (1999)
Plot Summary:
An overweight California slob hears his brother's been killed in Tijuana and goes down to investigate. Once there he meets an odd assortment of characters, all of whom either knew his brother or in some way were involved with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark comedy
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Valerie Flake (1999)
Plot Summary:
Valerie Flake is an overqualified supermarket cashier in her early thirties with a graduate degree and a past as a talented painter. Since her husband’s death, she has successfully severed all bonds with the people who love her and replaced intimacy with a succession of one-night stands. After a fight with her sister, she drives to Palm Springs to attend a party for her late husband’s parents, whom she still holds dear. On her first night, she meets newly divorced Tim Darnell, who is a saint and the polar opposite of Valerie. They begin a fast and furious romance that fulfills a need each has but ultimately leaves Tim brokenhearted. Valerie reveals through a videotaped “confession” to her in-laws exactly why she has had trouble coping with her pain before she leaves it all behind in Palm Springs to start anew.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Custody (1985)
Plot Summary:
A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out that the child had a spine injury in an orphanage. After the years her sentence is shortened and she is released from prison on parole after 12 years.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Johnny Greyeyes (2000)
Plot Summary:
Johnny GreyEyes is a girl from an injun family. Since her childhood she was abused by her father and one day she killed him. She was arrested and convicted by the court to a long term in local prison. Where she finds the woman, another inmate, who became for her and her family and her first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
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Locked Up (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a leg wound. He now makes her a prisoner in her own home. Almost without a word, as if she secretly enjoys the excitement or just mesmerized, she obeys Vassily, every single command, even sexual services, submissively or after a symbolic struggle. Somehow that seems to change, but can force initiate love?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Prison Break (2017)
Plot Summary:
One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of Kosuge Prison in Tokyo. Urata had been in charge of those sentenced to life in the prison until last year. Although Sakuma is a dangerous person who had also broken out of jail in Aomori, he submits to Urata who is the only person who had treated him kindly in the past. However, three months after escaping from jail, Sakuma shows up at Urata’s house. He has come to complain about the inhumane Akita prison officers. But he is locked up again after Urata notifies the police during an unguarded moment. A year later, Sakuma is sent to Abashiri Prison and Urata is also ordered to transfer as the prison’s chief warden.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
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Manners of Dying (2004)
Plot Summary:
Kevin Barlow (Roy Dupuis) will die on schedule and according to regulations. Harry Parlington (Serge Houde), director of the Cantos execution facility, intends to make sure of it. However Barlow chooses to go, be it calmly or fighting to the end, Parlington feels confident that he and his team can deal with the situation. When Barlow makes an unusual final request, a strange duel ensues between the condemned man and the prison director. In this struggle there can be no winner or loser, only two men faced with doubts and difficult choices to make.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
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Gutter Trash (1969)
Plot Summary:
An imprisoned model recalls the debached times with her degenerate boss, her drug dealer, and a clean-cut young man whom wants her to quit her nude modeling profession to make a life for herself elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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She Mob (1968)
Plot Summary:
A gang of four lesbian inmates escapes from prison and kidnaps the boyfriend of a wealthy woman. She hires a tough private eye to find her boyfriend and rescue him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Claude et Greta (1970)
Plot Summary:
A stylish sensual sample of European erotica about an aspiring model in Paris who becomes a participant in a relationship with a lesbian.Her female lover becomes too possessive, the model takes a job with an homosexual painter.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic
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The Party (1990)
Plot Summary:
At a maximum security prison, there is preparation for the annual party where entertainers and strippers are scheduled to perform. But not everyone is having fun. A man is sent to solitary, his wife has a nervous breakdown, and a convict prepares to make a daring escape.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Crime Of Innocence (1985)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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God Has a Rap Sheet (2003)
Plot Summary:
8 men in a holding cell with a homeless man who claims to be god.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating
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Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991)
Plot Summary:
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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Fun and Games (1971)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a British prison governor returns from an American finishing school, and chases after the inmates of her Dad's prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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La diosa del puerto (1989)
Plot Summary:
After being convicted of killing her rapist, a woman gives birth to a baby in jail. Regrettable accidents cause her to lose contact with her son. Twenty years later.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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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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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Reformatory of the Depraved (1978)
Plot Summary:
The German Frau Gelli runs a school aimed at girls from wealthy families who presented problems of social behavior and challenge the established principles. In order to educate the young, Frau Gelli imposes an iron discipline, in which is assisted by two betels, Kranz and Hanz, individuals of abrupt manners that are dedicated to punish the girls. The director cares little for the cultural education given by teachers Renina and Raul, morally weak to challenge the brutality to which the girls are subjected. They use the servant Girico to get them men on the street. The punishments against the young women reach unbearable levels and many try to flee without success until Solange, the most revolted of the students, after being very punished, plans and kills Frau Gelli and the two bears. The police are called and she is arrested. His colleagues are finally released and the school is closed.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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You and I (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage girls, Janie who is American and Lana who is Russian, fall in love after meeting at a t.A.T.u concert and are swept into a dangerous world of obsession, drug abuse and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, heartbreaking, serious, realistic, sexual
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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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That Tender Touch (1969)
Plot Summary:
When Terri (Sue Bernard) marries and moves to the suburbs, her lesbian lover, Marsha (Bee Tompkins), doesn't take kindly to Terri's desire for a "normal" life. Determined to win her love back, Marsha worms her way into the newlyweds' happy heterosexual home. Meanwhile, Marsha's seductive beauty converts several other women in the neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, cult 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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In Your Hands (2004)
Plot Summary:
Anna, a young theology graduate, starts work as a prison chaplain. She becomes especially concerned about one inmate, Kate, regarded as difficult and withdrawn, but whom the other inmates credit with mysterious healing powers.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, bleak, emotional, realistic, gloomy, crying
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Women of San Quentin (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Clemency (2019)
Plot Summary:
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, compassionate, dark, social, black cinema
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Raven's Touch (2015)
Plot Summary:
Blaming herself for a tragic accident, Raven Michaels secludes herself at a remote family cabin. She wanders the woods on the verge of a breakdown, seeking peace in isolation. In a last ditch attempt to save her family, Kate Royce takes her two teenagers camping far from the distractions of technology and young romance. When Raven and Kate's worlds collide they offer each other unexpected opportunities for intimacy and healing.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, deep, independent film, queer cinema
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Attica (1980)
Plot Summary:
A behind the scenes look of the 1971 prisoners revolt at the Attica prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: political, rough, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, tension, suspense
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Scrubbers (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two girls escape from an open borstal for two very different reasons; Annetta to attempt to visit her baby daughter, who is being raised in a convent; and Carol, who hopes to be recaptured and sent to a closed borstal where she knows her girlfriend Doreen is being held. Carol's plan works, although she is devastated to find that not only has Doreen found herself a new girlfriend inside (who both taunt and tease Carol), when Annetta is arrested at the convent and sent to the same closed borstal, she assumes it was Carol who "grassed" her up and proceeds to plan her revenge. Carol finds protection in the form of inmate Eddie, while Annetta's constant bullying attempts keep her in solitary confinement; however, Carol's world is turned upside-down when Eddie is released from borstal and her protection is gone... Written by Rhino.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful