An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk’s only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!
After a stint in a juvenile detention center, Treasure is transferred to an adult prison where her mother, whom she has never met, is also imprisoned. Before long, Treasure encounters Brownie, a lifer and gang leader. Brownie reveals that she is Treasure's mother, and takes the girl under her wing, protecting her from the dangers of hardcore prison life. But some women in Brownie's gang resent Treasure's presence, leading to violent conflict.
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
A young girl is framed for a crime she didn't commit and sent to the state penitentiary, which is run by a crooked warden and a corrupt staff. A reporter manages to get herself sent to the prison so she can expose the brutal conditions and prove the girl's innocence.
Ayaka is a bored housewife, stuck in a very ordinary and loveless marriage. Her only escape is to the fantasy world she creates. She begins having dark and graphic nightmares about being in prison and getting molested by the prison guards and warden. The plot thickens as Ayaka's husband's financial hardships cause both of her worlds, the real world and the imaginary one, to collide.
British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.
Reiko wakes up in a prison cell only to discover that, for some reason, she has been incarcerated in Chibajiri Women’s Prison under a life sentence using the identity and criminal record of a complete stranger named Manami Sano. To uncover the meaning of the mysterious “××” carved into her arm, and unravel the truth behind everything that has happened, she accepts life as the woman known as Sano.
Two prostitutes in a small corrupt South American town, falls in love with a freedom fighter, posing as a guard at the local prison. Run by the corrupt Governor and a sadistic wardress.
Pink film distributed by Shintoho.
"Women in prison" film directed by Wataru Oku.
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.
Female prisoners in a Philippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women, along with the help of two men, plot an escape.
Welcome to the Big House! It looks like any other prison, but this specialized penitentiary was designed from the ground up to hold Japan's most ruthless female inmates. That makes it doubly deadly, because while the guards may be brutal and sadistic, the inmates outnumber them by a hundred to one! At any second the final, fatal riot may erupt, stoking the flames of a thousand forbidden desires into an all-consuming inferno where it's every woman for herself! The shocking reality of Japan's secret prison system is exposed in Chain Gang Girls!
Minori is incarcerated at a women's medical prison exclusively for inmates with mental and physical disabilities. She was incarcerated for manslaughter, but in fact she deliberately entered the prison to investigate the mysterious suicide of her younger sister, Manami, who was also incarcerated there two years prior. Although billed as a rehabilitation support facility, the prison has in reality become a testing ground for guards who repeatedly assault female inmates, and for the warden and in-house doctor to conduct personality reform experiments.
A pregnant woman arrested for frustrated murder is sent to the Manila City Jail where she meets several women with shocking pasts.
Young women are kidnapped and held prisoner at a remote slave labor camp in the jungle, where they're forced to don skimpy outfits while trying to fend off lecherous guards, a whip-wielding lez warden and other types usually found in this kind of movie. There's torture, botched escapes, attempted rapes, etc. leading up to the obligatory break-out conclusion.
A female lawyer begins to suspect that lawlessness is going on in prison, and a female prisoner helps her.
In a mix of 2D animation and live action, through their voices and acting, two actresses recount the lives of imprisoned women that opposed the Russian Regime and their emotional stories of suffering and anguish.
A drug lord's prison connections make this a dangerous and deadly assignment for undercover FBI agent Danielle Peters.
In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of murders. Broomfield conducts interviews with Wuornos herself, and his crew films her trial as well as her interactions with religious fanatic Arlene Pralle, who gives Wuornos dubious advice and legally adopts her. The cameras also roll as the accused's attorney ignores the case at hand to negotiate a deal to sell his client's story.