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Women's Prison (1955)
, 1h19Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Audrey Totter, Cleo Moore, Phyllis Thaxter, Howard Duff
A ruthless superintendent of a prison, Amelia van Zandt, makes life hell for the female inmates. Her rules are rigid and she makes no exceptions.
Brokedown Palace (1999)
, 1h40Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films, Films about capital punishment, Children's films
Actors Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Jacqueline Kim, Lim Kay Tong, Lou Diamond Phillips
Lifelong best friends Alice Marano (Claire Danes) and Darlene Davis (Kate Beckinsale) take a trip after graduating high school, giving their parents the impression that they're going to Hawaii. However, Alice talks Darlene into going to Thailand instead, after comparing the prices of both destinations. Darlene agrees, albeit with some reluctance. Once in Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man who calls himself Nick Parks (Daniel Lapaine). Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to Hong Kong. At the airport, the girls are seized by the police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin.
, 1h29Directed by Yasuharu Hasebe
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, Yayoi Watanabe, Akemi Negishi, Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Nami Matsushima is found in a wedding chapel by police led by detective Hirose. They handcuff her, but she is able to escape. Kudo, a worker in a sex show club, rescues her. He is a radical with a history of problems with the police. One of the women from the sex show, who had unsuccessfully tried to seduce Kudo, finds Nami's handcuffs in Kudo's things, and informs the police. The police arrest and beat Kudo and then release and tail him back to Nami's hiding place.
, 1h28Directed by Yasuharu Hasebe
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, Yayoi Watanabe, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Akemi Negishi
Toujours recherchée par la police, Sasori se lie avec un ancien activiste de gauche, traumatisé d'avoir été torturé dans sa jeunesse.
Born Innocent (1974)
, 1h38Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, LGBT-related films, Women in prison films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Linda Blair, Richard Jaeckel, Kim Hunter, Allyn Ann McLerie, Joanna Miles, Mary Murphy
Linda Blair stars as a 14-year-old runaway who, after getting arrested one too many times, is sentenced to do time in a girls' juvenile detention center, which doubles as a reform school for the girls. Blair's character, Christine Parker, comes from an abusive home. Her father (played by Richard Jaeckel) beat her on a regular basis, which caused Chris to run away many times. Her mother (Kim Hunter) is just as troubled as Chris is; unfeeling, sitting in her recliner, watching television and smoking cigarettes all day, and in denial as to what her husband is doing. While the movie had a morality play tone, calling attention to the harsh conditions of juvenile detention centers, it also blamed society for Christine's downfall.
Affinity (2008)
, 2hDirected by Tim Fywell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, LGBT-related films, Women in prison films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Zoë Tapper, Anna Madeley, Domini Blythe, Amanda Plummer, Mary Jo Randle, Anne Reid
Affinity is set in Victorian England; the story of an upper-class woman, Margaret (Anna Madeley), who becomes an official "Visitor" to a woman's prison; however, she becomes emotionally attached to one of the inmates, Selina (Zoe Tapper).
Women in Chains (1972)
Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Ida Lupino, Lucille Benson, Belinda Montgomery, Lois Nettleton, Jessica Walter, William Bryant
Parole officer Sandra Parker (Lois Nettleton) becomes aware of the death of one of her cases, Ginger Stratton, at the hands of brutal prison guard Claire Tyson (Ida Lupino). All too aware of Tyson's impeccable record, Parker and her friend, Assistant District Attorney Helen Anderson (Penny Fuller), come to the conclusion that Tyson is basically untouchable.
Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
, 1h40Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, LGBT-related films, Women in prison films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Chuck Connors, Deborah Raffin, Lynne Moody, Robert Reed, Fionnula Flanagan, Tina Louise
Two girls, Cathy Phillips (Deborah Raffin) and Diane Emery (Lynne Moody) get engine car trouble in a small town. When they spurn the sheriff Slim Danen's (Chuck Connors) advances, they are thrown in prison on false accusations, where they endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators and prison guards. All hope seems very lost unless the girls find a way to escape.
House of Women (1962)
, 1h25Directed by Crane Wilbur, Walter Doniger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford, Barbara Nichols, Margaret Hayes, Jeanne Cooper
Erica Hayden (Knight) is a young expectant mother who is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years. Erica learns that she must find a guardian for her daughter or she will become a ward of the state. The prison's warden, Frank Cole (Duggan), becomes infatuated with Erica and effectively blocks her chances for a parole.
Jackson County Jail (1976)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Yvette Mimieux, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary Woronov, Howard Hesseman, Nan Martin, Robert Carradine
Dinah Hunter (Mimieux) works for a Los Angeles advertising agency and has been involved in a two-year romantic relationship. After she catches the man being unfaithful to her, Dinah quits her job and drives to New York for a fresh start.
Jailbirds (2016)
, 1h40Directed by Audrey Estrougo
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Sophie Marceau, Suzanne Clément, Anne Le Ny, Alice Belaïdi, Eye Haïdara, Marie-Sohna Condé
Pour sauver son mari d'une longue peine de prison, Mathilde participe à son évasion et se retrouve à son tour incarcérée.
Vice and Virtue (1963)
, 1h45Directed by Roger Vadim
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Women in prison films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Annie Girardot, Catherine Deneuve, Robert Hossein, O. E. Hasse, Philippe Lemaire, Serge Marquand
1944 : Justine est arrêtée tandis que sa sœur Juliette devient la maîtresse du colonel S.S Erik Schorndorf. Justine est déportée à la "Commanderie", en compagnie d'autres jolies filles, pour être les instruments de plaisir des chefs S.S.
Down by Love (2016)
, 1h50Directed by Pierre Godeau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Guillaume Gallienne, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Stéphanie Cléau, Marie Rivère, Maryline Even, Marie Berto
Jean mène une vie tout ce qu'il y a de plus correcte, avec une famille et un travail respectable, celui de directeur de la prison pour femmes de Versailles. Seulement, à partir du jour où il se penche sur le dossier d'Anna, incarcérée sous sa garde, tout change. Ils tombent éperdument amoureux, et vivent une histoire d'amour intense mais aussi impossible. Inspiré d'une histoire vraie (racontée par Florent Gonçalves dans son livre), ce film met en parallèle leur emprisonnement respectif : celui de Jean, psychologique, et celui d'Anna, plus matériel.
The Big Bird Cage (1972)
, 1h28Directed by Jack Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Pam Grier, Sid Haig, Anitra Ford, Carol Speed, Vic Díaz, Marissa Delgado
Blossom (Pam Grier), a buxom bad girl, is the rough-and-ready girlfriend of a radical guerrilla leader, Django (Sid Haig). She rather keeps her relationship a secret, but is also quick to start a fight without knowing it. However, when Django's mercenary friends itch for some female companionship, she softens and the two devise a plan to liberate the inmates of a local women's prison. A woman named Terry (Anitra Ford), a social climber, ends up in the prison herself because of Blossom and Django's earlier robbery. She is now forced to deal with crazy inmates, gay guards, and torture of the cage. Terry, Blossom, and Django (who busted in by seducing Rocco, one of the guards) eventually come together to face off against the warden Zappa (Andrés Centenera) to stage an explosive breakout.
House of Whipcord (1974)
, 1h42Directed by Pete Walker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Ray Brooks, Patrick Barr, Sheila Keith, Penny Irving, Ann Michelle, Ivor Salter
The film opens with a semi-nude young woman running down a highway and being picked up by a trucker.