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Plot Summary:
Sugar State Women’s Prison. An Everglades hellhole where innocent girls are forced to slave in the swamps by day then turn tricks for the warden by night. A prison camp where corruption, brutality, and sexual abuse are all part of the daily routine. But when reporter Valerie March goes undercover inside Sugar State, that’s when the powder keg really explodes! Follow Valerie through prison life - catfights, knife fights, rape, whippings, prostitution, and the “hot box” - before she and her fellow inmates take bloody, unforgettable revenge on their captors. Inspired by the great women-in-prison films of the past, SUGAR BOXX takes everything one step further. SUGAR BOXX has it all.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, psychological, captivating, retro, independent film, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, campy
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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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Payback (2007)
Plot Summary:
An escaped convict tracks down the cop who put him away.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Ceremony (1963)
Plot Summary:
A man (Robert Walker) has an affair with his condemned brother's (Laurence Harvey) girlfriend (Sarah Miles) while plotting his escape in Tangier.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: noir, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, gloomy
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Girls Are for Loving (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two women who like control face each other in a battle over jealousy and weaknesses. The US is about to sign a trade treaty with an Asian country; in exchange for friendly relations, the US will loan the Asians money to purchase US goods under contract. Evil siren Ronnie St. Clair tries various ways to find out which US companies will get these contracts, so that she can do some inside trading to make money on the stock market. The CIA hires gun-carrying, man-eating chanteuse and stripper, Ginger MacAllister, to put a stop to Miss St. Clair’s plan. Ginger and her CIA contact, Clay Boyer, an African-American, are attracted to each other. Will they live to ignite this spark?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent 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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Prison Girls (1972)
Plot Summary:
Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to her pimp even though he beats her, one overcomes her frigidity, one gets gang raped, two join in a threesome, and one goes back to her criminal lover shortly before the police show up.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sensual, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
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God's Pocket (2014)
Plot Summary:
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, captivating, neo noir, independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Hit Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin’s sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black cinema
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Act of Aggression (1975)
Plot Summary:
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang a man sets out to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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Chicago Overcoat (2009)
Plot Summary:
The fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film, detective
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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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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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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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School for Unclaimed Girls (1969)
Plot Summary:
A gold digging man seduces a widow for her money, and also makes a pass at her teenage Daughter, the Daughter plans a terrible revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, 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
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Women's Prison (1988)
Plot Summary:
A young woman about to get married discovers all too late that her spouse has mafia connections, when violence breaks out during her wedding. Caught up in the crossfire Lynn gets arrested and thrown into a women's prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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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
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Wild Seven (2006)
Plot Summary:
In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious domino effect as quickly as an uncontrollable virus kills. As he exits Arizona State Penn after twenty-one long years, Wilson has only one thing on the brain, leveling the score with career criminal, Mackey Willis.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, realistic
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The Killer Inside Me (1976)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff struggles to hide his violent murderous acts.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, psychotronic, suspense
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Red Letters (2000)
Plot Summary:
A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film, psychological, detective
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The Ministers (2009)
Plot Summary:
A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, detective
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Breaking Point (1976)
Plot Summary:
The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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R: Hit First, Hit Hardest (2010)
Plot Summary:
The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations. R also stands for Rachid, a young Muslim prisoner who becomes Rune's friend and accomplice, defying the rigid racial stratifications among the inmates.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, rough, captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense, thought provoking, independent film, bleak
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Animal Factory (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, bleak, atmospheric, harsh, disturbing, intense, serious, rough, cult classic
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The Mack (1973)
Plot Summary:
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, hood, funny, cult classic, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Willie Dynamite (1974)
Plot Summary:
Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life while it is still possible.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: hood, crime drama, grim, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, detective
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Brubaker (1980)
Plot Summary:
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, factual, harsh, serious, captivating, political, tense, psychological, edutainment