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51. Karla (2006)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Based on real events, Paul Bernardo and his wife, Karla Homolka, kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
Director: Joel Bender | Stars: Laura Prepon, Misha Collins, Patrick Bauchau, Emilie Jacobs
Votes: 6,347
52. Nothing But the Truth (I) (2008)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In Washington, D.C., a reporter faces a possible jail sentence for outing a CIA agent and refusing to reveal her source.
Director: Rod Lurie | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Vera Farmiga, Angela Bassett
Votes: 39,922 | Gross: $0.00M
53. 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: 3,655 | Gross: $0.19M
54. Born Innocent (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
A young girl runs away from her abusive family and ends up in a girls' juvenile detention center, where she's raped and brutalized by her sadistic peers. Only one honest social worker shows interest in helping her.
Director: Donald Wrye | Stars: Linda Blair, Joanna Miles, Allyn Ann McLerie, Mary Murphy
Votes: 1,201
55. 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: 1,523
56. The Door (I) (2012)
97 min | Drama
An author forms a strange bond with her eccentric maid that will have a lasting effect on both women.
Director: István Szabó | Stars: Helen Mirren, Martina Gedeck, Károly Eperjes, Gábor Koncz
Votes: 2,484
57. Run! Bitch Run! (2009)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
Things go horribly wrong when Catherine and Rebecca, two Catholic schoolgirls, knock on the wrong door while selling religious paraphernalia.
Director: Joseph Guzman | Stars: Ivet Corvea, Cheryl Lyone, John Winscher, Peter Tahoe
Votes: 3,272
58. 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: 996
59. Paradise Road (1997)
R | 122 min | Drama, History, War
A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 5,948 | Gross: $1.92M
60. Reach Me (2014)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A self-help book changes the lives of different people in the LA area. Who is the reclusive writer?
Director: John Herzfeld | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Kyra Sedgwick, Thomas Jane, Kelsey Grammer
Votes: 3,283
61. House of Whipcord (1974)
R | 102 min | Horror
An insane couple take over the operation of an old jail and seek out young women who they believe have escaped justice. A beautiful young French model becomes their latest victim and must attempt escape or face an almost certain death.
Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Barbara Markham, Patrick Barr, Ray Brooks, Ann Michelle
Votes: 1,876
62. 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: 1,222
63. High Heels (1991)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A singer returns after 15 years abroad to perform in Madrid and finds her 27 y.o. daughter married to one of her mom's ex-lovers.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé, Anna Lizaran
Votes: 17,504 | Gross: $1.71M
64. Mercenaries (2014)
Unrated | 89 min | Action, Adventure
The President's daughter is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of elite female commandos is assembled to infiltrate a women's prison for a daring rescue.
Director: Christopher Ray | Stars: Zoë Bell, Kristanna Loken, Vivica A. Fox, Brigitte Nielsen
Votes: 2,768
65. Switchblade Sisters (1975)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The leader of an inner-city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighborhood.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, Monica Gayle, Asher Brauner
Votes: 4,291 | Gross: $0.05M
66. In Her Skin (2009)
R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
This is what every parent fears: their child not coming home when they're meant to. When the fifteen-year-old student, Rachel Barber, doesn't climb off the tram to meet her dad, Elizabeth, her mother, and Mike, her dad, bolt into action.
Director: Simone North | Stars: Guy Pearce, Miranda Otto, Ruth Bradley, Sam Neill
Votes: 5,452
67. Star Slammer (1986)
R | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with lesbian guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Sandy Brooke, Suzy Stokey, Ross Hagen, Marya Gant
Votes: 1,345
68. 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: 1,162
69. Devil Hunter (1980)
Not Rated | 102 min | Horror
a young woman modelling in South America is kidnapped for ransom in the jungle when a Vietnam veteran is going to rescue her only to find out that the jungle is filled with cannibals
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Ursula Buchfellner, Al Cliver, Antonio Mayans, Antônio do Cabo
Votes: 1,614
70. And God Created Woman (1988)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Aspiring and incarcerated rock singer, Robin Shea (Rebecca De Mornay) seduces hardworking carpenter Billy Moran (Vincent Spano). Robin marries Billy to get out of jail, but Robin's concerns are on politician James Tiernan (Frank Langella).
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent Spano, Frank Langella, Donovan Leitch Jr.
Votes: 2,128 | Gross: $0.72M
71. Tenko (1981–1984)
50 min | Drama, War
After the Japanese invasion of Singapore in February 1942, a group of British, Dutch and Australian women are held in a Japanese internment camp on a Japanese-occupied island between Singapore and Australia.
Stars: Ann Bell, Stephanie Cole, Claire Oberman, Emily Bolton
Votes: 839
72. Moll Flanders (1996)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama, Romance
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after her mother's execution, but the actions of an abusive priest lead her to rebel as a teenager, and she escapes to... See full summary »
Director: Pen Densham | Stars: Robin Wright, Morgan Freeman, Stockard Channing, John Lynch
Votes: 4,520 | Gross: $3.36M
73. 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: 445
74. Empire of the Apes (2013)
Not Rated | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a distant galaxy three escaped female convicts crash land on a primitive world inhabited by a race of warlike apes. They fight for survival as the humanoid apes fight for their ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Polonia | Stars: Danielle Donahue, Elizabeth V. Costanzo, Marie DeLorenzo, Ken Van Sant
Votes: 161
75. Triple Cross (1966)
PG | 140 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During WW2, convicted bank robber Eddie Chapman becomes a triple agent working for both the British and the Germans.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Gert Fröbe
Votes: 3,051
76. Female Agents (2008)
TV-MA | 148 min | Drama, War
London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marie Gillain
Votes: 7,974
77. Maximum Conviction (2012)
R | 98 min | Action, Thriller
Two former black ops operatives are required to transfer two female convicts to a prison. While on their way, unknown assailants attack them.
Director: Keoni Waxman | Stars: Steven Seagal, Steve Austin, Michael Paré, Ian Robison
Votes: 7,367
78. The Caller (1987)
R | 97 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A woman, living in an isolated cabin, lets a mysterious stranger in to make a phone call.
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Madolyn Smith Osborne
Votes: 1,663
79. The Secret of the Sword (1985)
G | 100 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Prince Adam is sent to the world of Etheria to find his long abducted sister, Adora, and awaken her to her own destiny.
Directors: Ed Friedman, Lou Kachivas, Marsh Lamore, Bill Reed, Gwen Wetzler | Stars: John Erwin, Melendy Britt, Alan Oppenheimer, Linda Gary
Votes: 3,309 | Gross: $7.66M
80. The Maltese Falcon (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel
Votes: 3,357
81. Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre (2015 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When a fracking environmental accident rips apart the earth's crust, the resulting hole lets out prehistoric sharks from underground that target a group of women and trap them in a cabin.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Dominique Swain, Traci Lords, Christine Nguyen, Cindy Lucas
Votes: 1,457
82. 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
83. Playing for Time (1980 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama, Music
Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.
Directors: Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski
Votes: 2,886
84. Presídio de Mulheres Violentadas (1977)
87 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Wrongly convicted for the death of a guard during a robbery, Tininha arrives at the women's prison and is soon the target of a dispute between Rafaela, the cruel and corrupt director, and ... See full summary »
Directors: Luiz Castellini, Antonio Polo Galante | Stars: Esmeralda Barros, Hugo Bidet, Meiry Vieira, Glaucia Maria
Votes: 52
85. Mansion of the Living Dead (1982)
93 min | Horror
A group of vacationing waitresses visit a resort hotel on the Canary Islands, only to find that the former monastery's monks nearby have returned as living blind dead.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Antonio Mayans, Mabel Escaño, Albino Graziani
Votes: 814
86. Prison Heat (1993)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Four American babes on vacation in the Middle East run into trouble when they are imprisoned by corrupt army officials.
Director: Joel Silberg | Stars: Rebecca Chambers, Lori Jo Hendrix, Kena Land, Toni Naples
Votes: 1,008
87. Caged Women (1991)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
American tourist Janet Cooper goes on vacation in a remote South American country. After being arrested by a corrupt policeman and convicted of a trumped-up drug possession charge, Janet is imprisoned in an isolated castle.
Director: Leandro Lucchetti | Stars: Pilar Orive, Isabel Libossart, Elena Wiedermann, Christian Lorenz
Votes: 331
88. Forever Amber (1947)
Approved | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
Directors: Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl | Stars: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Votes: 1,703 | Gross: $16.00M
89. Celblok H (2014–2017)
42 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Joys and sorrows in a department of a female prison.
Stars: Isa Hoes, Christine van Stralen, Imanuelle Grives, Jaike Belfor
Votes: 387
90. The Gestapo's Last Orgy (1977)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, War
A Jewish woman who survived the horrors of a concentration camp revisits the ruins of the camp, along with a former SS officer, and recollects the humiliation, the torture, and the constant abuse she went through.
Director: Cesare Canevari | Stars: Adriano Micantoni, Daniela Poggi, Maristella Greco, Fulvio Ricciardi
Votes: 1,609
91. Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot (2020)
90 min | Action, Adventure, History
Follows King Arthur and his people race home to prevent Mordred from taking over Camelot.
Director: Giles Alderson | Stars: Richard Short, Tim Fellingham, Stella Stocker, Sanna Kelly
Votes: 4,209
92. Stash (I) (2007)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror
Bud's a good ole' boy brought up on Bluegrass and Moonshine. While supplying the surrounding counties with its Marijuana supply, Bud has a hefty growing operation. However, this is not ... See full summary »
Director: Jacob Ennis | Stars: Karen Boles, Nathan Day, Stacey T. Gillespie, Kevin Taylor
Votes: 387
93. I've Loved You So Long (2008)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama
A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Director: Philippe Claudel | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill
Votes: 20,738 | Gross: $3.17M
94. SS Experiment Love Camp (1976)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Near the end of WW2, prisoners of war are used in experiments to perfect the "Aryan" race.
Director: Sergio Garrone | Stars: Mircha Carven, Paola Corazzi, Giorgio Cerioni, Giovanna Mainardi
Votes: 1,415
95. The Beast in Heat (1977)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, War
A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor creates a genetic, mutant human hybrid; the beast is a, squat, mongoloid hyper-sexually-driven fiend which she uses to torture and molest female prisoners while get fellow Nazis watch.
Director: Luigi Batzella | Stars: Macha Magall, Gino Turini, Edilio Kim, Xiro Papas
Votes: 1,950
96. Fly Me the French Way (1974)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A sex cult mistakenly kidnaps Sophie from the house where Valerie is house-sitting. Valerie and friend Fred attempt to rescue Sophie from the cult's mansion, where her cousin, a cult member, is being blackmailed over incriminating photos.
Director: Jean Rollin | Stars: Joëlle Coeur, Marie-France Morel, Brigitte Borghese, Annie Belle
Votes: 567
97. Nightmare in Badham County (1976 TV Movie)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller
During a road trip, two UCLA coeds end up in a Southern prison farm on trumped-up charges brought on by a small town sex-crazed corrupt sheriff.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Deborah Raffin, Lynne Moody, Chuck Connors, Fionnula Flanagan
Votes: 693
98. Nathalie: Escape from Hell (1978)
103 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A Russian doctor finds herself imprisoned in a lavish and elegant bordello for the high-ranking Nazi officers, at the mercy of a fiendish SS officer. Can she locate a missing British agent under her nose, and escape from hell?
Director: Alain Payet | Stars: Patrizia Gori, Jacqueline Laurent, Jack Taylor, Jacques Marbeuf
Votes: 347
99. 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: 751
100. Love Camp (1977)
Not Rated | 79 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A group of women are kidnapped by guerrillas and forced to serve as prostitutes for them in a jungle brothel. The sadistic female warden decapitates uncooperative girls.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Nanda van Bergen, Ada Tauler, Monica Swinn, Esther Studer
Votes: 585