Guide to Grindhouse Genres: Women In Prison
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1. Ten Violent Women (1982)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
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.
Director: Ted V. Mikels | Stars: Sherri Vernon, Dixie Lauren, Sally Alice Gamble, Georgia Morgan
Votes: 536
2. 1,000 Convicts and a Woman (1971)
R | 92 min | Drama
The daughter of a British prison governor returns from an American finishing school and chases after the inmates of her dad's prison.
Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Alexandra Hay, Sandor Elès, Harry Baird, Neil Hallett
Votes: 270
3. 99 Women (1969)
Unrated | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A new female inmate at an island prison is abused by fellow convicts and staff, and her disillusionment with the new warden prompts her to join in an attempted breakout and mutiny.
Directors: Jesús Franco, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Maria Schell, Luciana Paluzzi, Mercedes McCambridge, Herbert Lom
Votes: 1,596
4. Amazon Jail (1985)
Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Edgar, a sex trafficker, sends his men to lure groups of women to his estate in the woods, imprisoning them, and selling them. One strong minded woman refuses to be sold and plots an escape, while convincing other girls to join her.
Director: Oswaldo de Oliveira | Stars: Elizabeth Hartmann, Maurício do Valle, Sandra Graffi, Lígia de Paula
Votes: 798
5. Bad Girls Dormitory (1986)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Inmates at a women's prison run by a corrupt warden and her gang of sadistic guards plan a breakout.
Director: Tim Kincaid | Stars: Carey Zuris, Teresa Farley, Natalie Savage, Rick Gianasi
Votes: 452
6. The Bamboo House of Dolls (1973)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama, Horror
A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.
Director: Chih-Hung Kuei | Stars: Birte Tove, Lieh Lo, Hsieh Wang, Terry Liu
Votes: 613
7. The Big Bird Cage (1972)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Pam Grier, Anitra Ford, Candice Roman, Teda Bracci
Votes: 3,016
8. The Big Bust-Out (1972)
75 min | Action, Thriller
Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.
Director: Ernst Ritter von Theumer | Stars: Tony Kendall, Monica Teuber, William Berger, Gordon Mitchell
Votes: 321
9. The Big Doll House (1971)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Beautiful female prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with reluctant help from two male fruit vendors.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Judith Brown, Brooke Mills
Votes: 3,099 | Gross: $10.00M
10. Black Mama White Mama (1973)
R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Black prostitute and a white revolutionary must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison, then pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the Army.
Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Sid Haig, Lynn Borden
Votes: 3,642 | Gross: $0.19M
11. Caged Heat (1974)
R | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the crippled female warden and the corrupt prison doctor.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Juanita Brown, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Ella Reid
Votes: 2,992 | Gross: $0.10M
12. Violence in a Women's Prison (1982)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Photojournalist Emanuelle goes undercover into a woman's prison, where she discovers and experiences the abuse, torture and humiliation the inmates are subjected to.
Director: Bruno Mattei | Stars: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Maria Romano, Ursula Flores
Votes: 989
13. Chain Gang Women (1971)
R | 85 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A murderer escapes from a chain gang, forces his co-inmate to go along, and aggressively rapes the latter's girlfriend. The desperate duo next invades the home of an older farmer and his teenage wife.
Director: Lee Frost | Stars: Michael Stearns, Robert Lott, Barbara Mills, Linda York
Votes: 296 | Gross: $0.04M
14. Chained Heat (1983)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Young Carol Henderson ends up in prison where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs and staff corruption and brutality.
Director: Paul Nicholas | Stars: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson
Votes: 2,631 | Gross: $6.15M
15. Bust Out (1973)
75 min | Drama, Thriller
The Browns take their Catholic high school students on a picnic. As one student sneaks to her boyfriend, two others seduce escaped convicts who rape the fourth. Mrs. Brown and her husband fall victims to their prudence.
Director: John Hayes | Stars: Ric Lutze, Ralph Wain, Myron Griffin, Candy Samples
Votes: 125
16. Quartier de femmes (1973)
97 min | Drama
A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Andrés Resino, Geneviève Robert, Dennis Price, Rosa Palomar
Votes: 249
17. Ebony, Ivory and Jade (1979 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Drama
Mick Jade, a former tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory, in which the trio go undercover to protect a lady ... See full summary »
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Bert Convy, Debbie Allen, Martha Smith, Donald Moffat
Votes: 37
18. Escape from Hell (1980)
93 min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Abused female prisoners at an all-women's prison camp in the tropics plot revenge against their sadistic overseers.
Director: Edoardo Mulargia | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Ajita Wilson, Cristina Lay, Cintia Lodetti
Votes: 645
19. Five Loose Women (1974)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Five women break out of a remote, minimum security prison. Four are hardened convicts, the fifth was wrongfully convicted. As the authorities chase them down, the cons terrorize or kill anyone who gets in their way.
Director: Stephen C. Apostolof | Stars: Jabie Abercrombe, Rene Bond, Tallie Cochrane, Donna Young
Votes: 470
20. Girls in Prison (1956)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Anne Carson, meeting the seamy side of prison life, finds that everyone thinks she knows where unrecovered bank loot is.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Richard Denning, Joan Taylor, Adele Jergens, Helen Gilbert
Votes: 334
21. Hong fen bing tuan (1982)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical lab in a well fortified valley.
Director: Yen-Ping Chu | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Hui-Shan Yang, Sally Yeh, Chung-You Chang
Votes: 198
22. Helga, la louve de Stilberg (1978)
97 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Helga moves the action to South America, where she lords over a castle of female political prisoners, who are stripped and tortured at whim.
Director: Patrice Rhomm | Stars: Malisa Longo, Patrizia Gori, Claude Janna, Dominique Aveline
Votes: 440
23. Hell Behind the Bars (1984)
82 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A woman murders her boyfriend and steals some diamonds he has smuggled. She gets found out though, and locked in a prison with an evil, sadistic bisexual warden. She sets about planning her escape with some of her fellow inmates.
Director: Gianni Siragusa | Stars: Ajita Wilson, Rita Silva, Linda Jones, Alessandro Freyberger
Votes: 368
24. Detenute violente (1984)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Julia, a medical student, infiltrates a prison to find the witness to what she believes was her sister's killing. In the midst of violent inmates and corrupt officials, her inquiry risks to end suddenly - by her own death.
Director: Gianni Siragusa | Stars: Ajita Wilson, Rita Silva, Linda Jones, Alessandro Freyberger
Votes: 239
25. The Hot Box (1972)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Hot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.
Director: Joe Viola | Stars: Carmen Argenziano, Andrea Cagan, Margaret Markov, Rickey Richardson
Votes: 393
26. Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976)
R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
In the vast deserts of the Middle East, lascivious harem keeper Ilsa joins the sex-trafficking ring of a maniacal sheikh who imports helpless female slaves for his perverse amusement.
Director: Don Edmonds | Stars: Dyanne Thorne, Max Thayer, Jerry Delony, Uschi Digard
Votes: 3,044
27. Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Ilsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts "medical experiments." Ilsa's goal is to prove women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the front lines.
Director: Don Edmonds | Stars: Dyanne Thorne, Gregory Knoph, Tony Mumolo, Maria Marx
Votes: 8,212
28. Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977)
X | 90 min | Drama, Horror
After the mysterious disappearance of her sister, a desperate young woman infiltrates brutal warden Ilsa's mental health facility for sexually deviant women. Will she escape the hellhole and live to tell the tale?
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Dyanne Thorne, Lina Romay, Angela Ritschard, Peggy Markoff
Votes: 2,669
29. Ilsa the Tigress of Siberia (1977)
R | 85 min | Horror
In 1953, nestled deep in the unforgiving Siberian tundra, the Stalinist Gulag 14 is a purgatory under the command of the brutally seductive tormentor, Ilsa. More than two decades later, the camp's sole survivor still thirsts for revenge.
Director: Jean LaFleur | Stars: Dyanne Thorne, Michel Morin, Jean-Guy Latour, Michel Maillot
Votes: 1,984
30. Love Camp 7 (1969)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.
Director: Lee Frost | Stars: Bob Cresse, Maria Lease, Kathy Williams, Bruce Kimball
Votes: 1,156
31. The Muthers (1976)
R | 83 min | Action, Drama
A band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their leader's sister.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Jeannie Bell, Rosanne Katon, Trina Parks, Jayne Kennedy
Votes: 839
32. Prison Girls (1972)
X | 93 min | Crime, Drama
A prison psychiatrist prepares six female inmates for parole by granting them a weekend furlough, during which each of them has a sexual encounter.
Director: Tom DeSimone | Stars: Jacqueline Giroux, Annik Borel, Tracy Handfuss, Maria Arnold
Votes: 530 | Gross: $0.49M
33. Reform School Girls (1986)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A new group of girls arrives at Pridemore Juvenile Facility, where the brutal warden plays favoritism with a few, and treats the rest like animals. But one girl is not taking this horrible treatment lying down.
Director: Tom DeSimone | Stars: Linda Carol, Wendy O. Williams, Pat Ast, Sybil Danning
Votes: 2,989 | Gross: $2.51M
34. Hellhole Women (1981)
Unrated | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A newly-wed couple in love finds a seemingly desolate place to park the car and make love. Soon, they will face the fearsome warden Magda Urtado's cruel reality.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Ajita Wilson, Andrea Guzon, Ursula Buchfellner, Antonio Mayans
Votes: 1,167
35. Sweet Sugar (1972)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Michel Levesque | Stars: Phyllis Davis, Ellaraino, Timothy Brown, Pamela Collins
Votes: 807 | Gross: $0.04M
36. Terminal Island (1973)
R | 88 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
After the abolishment of the death penalty, California murderers are dumped on an island to spend the rest of their lives unsupervised. There, two groups are formed, one lead by a psychopath, and another group determined to bring him down.
Director: Stephanie Rothman | Stars: Don Marshall, Phyllis Davis, Ena Hartman, Marta Kristen
Votes: 1,509
37. Strike of the Tortured Angels (1982)
Not Rated | 80 min | Action
A group of women in a prison rise up and revolt against their savage jailers.
Director: Roy Rosenberg | Stars: Susan Lee, Stella Jone, Laura Sode-Matteson, George Bill
Votes: 131
38. Women Behind Bars (1975)
Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Thriller
A small-time hood brings the attention of the law with an insurance scam and diamond theft, but things become even more interesting when his moll murders him and is slammed behind bars ... See full summary »
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Martine Stedil, Nathalie Chape, Roger Darton
Votes: 750
39. Women in Cages (1971)
R | 81 min | Action, Crime, Drama
American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.
Director: Gerardo de Leon | Stars: Judith Brown, Roberta Collins, Jennifer Gan, Pam Grier
Votes: 1,940
40. Women in Cell Block 7 (1973)
R | 81 min | Crime, Drama
A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.
Director: Rino Di Silvestro | Stars: Anita Strindberg, Eva Czemerys, Olga Bisera, Jenny Tamburi
Votes: 290
41. Women of Devil's Island (1962)
86 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Female prisoners are shipped to Devil's Island penal colony. They are indoctrinated into the prison life from abusive guards and then a new prison governor arrives with planned reforms.
Director: Domenico Paolella | Stars: Guy Madison, Michèle Mercier, Federica Ranchi, Marisa Belli
Votes: 286
42. Women's Camp 119 (1977)
97 min | Horror, Thriller
A prisoner is forced to serve as a doctor's assistant, giving her a front row seat for the horrible goings-on. There's the experiment to revive Nazi soldiers who have frozen to death by ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Mattei | Stars: Ivano Staccioli, Ria De Simone, Nello Riviè, Gabriele Carrara
Votes: 455
43. Women's Prison Massacre (1983)
Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Four escaped male convicts seize control of a women's prison and proceed to terrorize the inmates, one of whom is reporter Emanuelle, incarcerated on trumped-up charges.
Directors: Bruno Mattei, Gilbert Roussel | Stars: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Ursula Flores, Maria Romano
Votes: 1,221
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