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Plot Summary:
Prostitute Sugar is set up by a corrupt politician. She is convinced of the futility of appealing her case in the courts and signs on to a chain gang run by the notorious Dr. John who performs cruel medical experiments on the people who work for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sensual, independent film
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Black Samson (1974)
Plot Summary:
Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Against Their Will: Women in Prison (1994)
Plot Summary:
Behind prison walls, corruption, sex and power make criminals out of the guards and heroes out of the guarded. For more than a decade, the lawless guards inside a maximum security women's prison have reigned with impunity - rape, sex for money and illegal favors have become the norm until one woman decides to battle the system. Leading a group of inmates on a risky life-or-death struggle for justice, a ten year silence is finally broken, exposing the twisted truth to the world and enabling the prisoners the freedom to live without fear.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Anger (1981)
Plot Summary:
Three women captured and imprisoned by a gang of white slavers lead a bloody rebellion, aided by a detective investigating the gang.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Black Alley Cats (1973)
Plot Summary:
Wanting revenge on a street gang for a rape attack, four young girls get together, take kung-fu lessons, learn how to shoot, form a gang called the Black Alley Cats and search out the gang that attacked them.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Tropical Inferno (1978)
Plot Summary:
A group of female freedom-fighters led by Karine Levere is caught by the warden of a women's prison, located somwhere in the South American jungle. None of them will reveal the secrets of their organisation or the names of their collaborators in the cities, so they are handed over to Dr. Costa who, after four years inactivity in Europe, is delighted to be able to practice his torture techniques once more. Laverne fails to resist the inhuman treatments and reveals all. The only hope of saving the organization is for the girls to warn the city cell before it's too late. They trick the prison guard into having sex with them, knock him out and break out of prison. The warden and Dr. Costa must prevent them from revealing the practices inside the prison. The hunt is on and it's shoot to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, psychotronic, banned, sexploitation film
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Kung Fu Executioner (1981)
Plot Summary:
Li, a martial artist, returns home to find out that his father is being harassed by a crime syndicate. Together with an American kung fu champion he vows revenge when the syndicate kills his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse
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Bad Girls Dormitory (1986)
Plot Summary:
Inmates at a women's prison run by a corrupt warden and her gang of sadistic guards plan a breakout.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Muthers (1976)
Plot Summary:
A band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their leader's sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Savage! (1973)
Plot Summary:
Low-budget adventure starring former baseball star James Iglehart as Savage, who is kidnapped by South American rebels. After a time, he sees their position and is joined by a female commando squad in battling the repressive government officials.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, black cinema
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Five Loose Women (1974)
Plot Summary:
Five inmates break out of a women’s prison. Four of them are hardened convicts, but one is a girl who was convicted for a crime she didn’t commit. As the authorities chase them down, the cons terrorize or kill anyone who gets in their way.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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Dynamite Brothers (1974)
Plot Summary:
Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, realistic, semi serious
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Jailbirds (1978)
Plot Summary:
Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players. They drive the bus to the house of the judge who originally sent them to prison, where--since this is after all a women-in-prison picture--the hostages undergo various forms of physical and sexual abuse in various degrees of nudity.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, sensual, sexploitation film
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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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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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Terminal Island (1973)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of a Supreme Court decision to outlaw the death penalty, California passes an initiative that designates San Bruno island as a dumping spot for first-degree murder convicts, free to do what they like except leave. The main camp of convicts is controlled by the tyrannical Bobby, who rules with an iron hand, and the women are used as sex slaves. A.J. and a group of more free-minded murderers have escaped and gone into hiding. When A.J. and his men liberate the women from Bobby's custody, tensions mount to an all-out confrontation for control of the island.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, action thriller, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Hell Hole (1978)
Plot Summary:
Caged like animals! Sexually abused and brutally tortured! ... Escape is their only hope!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent 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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Switchblade Sisters (1975)
Plot Summary:
A tough gang of teenage girls are looking for love and fighting for turf on the mean streets of the city! Bad girls to the core, these impossibly outrageous high school hoodlums go where they want ... and create mayhem wherever they go!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, slasher, hood, creepy, action thriller, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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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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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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Savage Sisters (1974)
Plot Summary:
A corrupt General plans on smuggling one million US dollars out of the Banana Republic he dominates. Local revolutionaries plan on stealing the cash but are thwarted when a bandit leader they are working with double crosses them. A tough cop and her boyfriend help two of the female revolutionaries escape from prison hoping that they will lead them to the cash, which they plan on keeping for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, political, independent film, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
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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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Caged Heat (1974)
Plot Summary:
A girl is caught in a drug bust and sent to the hoosegow.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sensual, cult classic, action thriller, rough, offbeat, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Caged Fury (1990)
Plot Summary:
Kat arrives in Los Angeles to audition for movies. However, after meeting a sleazy producer, she and her new friend find themselves in a women's prison run by sadistic guards and a lesbian warden.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, fast
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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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Purgatory (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are framed and put into an oppressive women's prison.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, grindhouse