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51. Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A man went back to Guizhou, found the tracks of a mysterious woman. He recalls the summer he spent with her twenty years ago.
Director: Bi Gan | Stars: Tang Wei, Jue Huang, Sylvia Chang, Hong-Chi Lee
Votes: 9,433 | Gross: $0.50M
52. The Naked Cage (1986)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young woman wrongly convicted of a bank robbery is sent to a prison run by a corrupt warden. She struggles to survive the harsh prison life, where violent bullying, sexual assault and drug addiction run rampant.
Director: Paul Nicholas | Stars: Shari Shattuck, Angel Tompkins, Lucinda Crosby, Stacey Shaffer
Votes: 901 | Gross: $3.14M
53. 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: 1,600
54. Bangkok Hilton (1989)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
Nicole Kidman and Denholm Elliott star in a 1989 miniseries about a young woman in a Thai prison for carrying her boyfriend's heroin.
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Denholm Elliott, Hugo Weaving, Joy Smithers
Votes: 5,149
55. 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: 5,944 | Gross: $1.92M
56. 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: 811 | Gross: $0.04M
57. The Rapture (1991)
R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A telephone operator living an empty, amoral life finds God and loses him again.
Director: Michael Tolkin | Stars: Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Darwyn Carson, Patrick Bauchau
Votes: 6,045 | Gross: $1.28M
58. The Lady in Red (1979)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After being in the wrong place at the wrong time, a naïve farm girl moves to Chicago, where she becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime abetted by John Dillinger.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Pamela Sue Martin, Robert Conrad, Louise Fletcher, Robert Hogan
Votes: 1,417
59. 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: 3,651 | Gross: $0.19M
60. 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: 2,673
61. 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: 1,196
62. 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: 17,489 | Gross: $1.71M
63. 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: 1,516
64. The Tall Man (2012)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
Director: Pascal Laugier | Stars: Jessica Biel, Jodelle Ferland, William B. Davis, Stephen McHattie
Votes: 43,285
65. 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: 993
66. You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015–2022)
TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
When a group of ordinary people learn that an eight-mile-wide comet is on a collision course with Earth, they hunker beneath the town of Slough to watch the end of the world on television.
Stars: Mathew Baynton, Jenna Fischer, Joel Fry, Gaia Scodellaro
Votes: 8,034
67. I Want to Live! (1958)
Approved | 120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel
Votes: 7,392
68. La piovra (1984–2001)
TV-14 | 360 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. the mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
Stars: Remo Girone, Patricia Millardet, Michele Placido, François Périer
Votes: 3,970
69. Vera Drake (2004)
R | 125 min | Crime, Drama
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Richard Graham
Votes: 26,892 | Gross: $3.75M
70. Marquis de Sade's Justine (1969)
R | 90 min | Drama
Penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful, chaste orphan must endure an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who covet her virtue and life.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Romina Power, Maria Rohm, Rosemary Dexter
Votes: 2,059
71. 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
72. 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: 1,948
73. Chained Heat 2 (1993)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
An innocent woman is sent to a Czech prison, where the sadistic warden and guards rape and perform bizarre sex acts on the prisoners.
Director: Lloyd A. Simandl | Stars: Brigitte Nielsen, Paul Koslo, Kimberley Kates, Kari Whitman
Votes: 1,484
74. House of D (2004)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
By working through problems stemming from his past, Tom Warshaw, an American artist living in Paris, begins to discover who he really is, and returns to his home to reconcile with his family and friends.
Director: David Duchovny | Stars: David Duchovny, Téa Leoni, Robin Williams, Anton Yelchin
Votes: 9,825 | Gross: $0.37M
75. 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: 837
76. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Rie Yokoyama, Yayoi Watanabe, Yôko Mihara
Votes: 4,889
77. Jiang hu er nü (2018)
Not Rated | 136 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Zheng Xu, Casper Liang
Votes: 10,660 | Gross: $0.42M
78. 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: 5,443
79. Savage Island (1985)
R | 79 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Women who have been captured and sold as slave labor to a South American emerald mine hatch a plan for revolution and revenge.
Director: Ted Nicolaou | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Ajita Wilson, Cristina Lay, Linda Blair
Votes: 828
80. 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: 1,343
81. Caged Women (1980)
Not Rated | 80 min | Adventure, Action
Delinquent women are shipped to an island prison run by the sadistic warden Carla. Forced into situations of sexual perversion and violence and torture, the prisoners band together to try to overthrow Carla and escape the island.
Director: Erwin C. Dietrich | Stars: Karine Gambier, Brigitte Lahaie, Nadine Pascal, France Lomay
Votes: 575
82. Swamp Women (1956)
Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
An undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Marie Windsor, Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, Mike Connors
Votes: 2,035
83. The Concrete Jungle (1982)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When an unsuspecting woman, who was setup by her boyfriend to carry a stash of cocaine, is sentenced to three years in prison, she struggles to survive against the corrupt warden and the vicious inmates.
Director: Tom DeSimone | Stars: Jill St. John, Tracey E. Bregman, BarBara Luna, June Barrett
Votes: 823
84. Too Young to Die? (1990 TV Movie)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama
An abused 15-year-old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty.
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Michael Tucker, Juliette Lewis, Brad Pitt, Alan Fudge
Votes: 4,278
85. 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: 1,161
86. 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: 1,166
87. The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
R | 165 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A Greek tycoon's mistress tries to track down and find her ex-World War II lover.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone
Votes: 1,947 | Gross: $24.65M
88. Flamingo Road (1949)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian
Votes: 3,666 | Gross: $2.26M
89. 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: 4,287 | Gross: $0.05M
90. The Girl in Room 2A (1974)
R | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult's next victim.
Directors: William Rose, Dick Randall | Stars: Daniela Giordano, Angelo Infanti, John Scanlon, Rosalba Neri
Votes: 910
91. Caged (1950)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A gentle, naive, pregnant 19-year-old widow is slowly, inexorably ground down by the hardened criminals, sadistic guards, and matron at a woman's prison. Will she be the same person when her sentence is up?
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson
Votes: 4,731
92. Truck Turner (1974)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
While tracking a strong-armed pimp who has skipped bail, a bounty hunter discovers a contract has been put out on him and must go on the run.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase
Votes: 3,602 | Gross: $0.18M
93. Hellhole (1985)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Horror
A young woman becomes amnesiac after an attack by a hired killer. She's admitted to a mental asylum run by a ruthless doctor who experiments on her patients with a lethal drug, and her attacker just got employed there.
Directors: Pierre De Moro, Tom DeSimone | Stars: Ray Sharkey, Judy Landers, Marjoe Gortner, Richard Cox
Votes: 1,049
94. 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: 692
95. The Stepdaughter (2000 Video)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
Growing up, Susan Heller survived countless foster homes and years of abuse and neglect with one burning goal: to someday find the birth mother who abandoned her--and get revenge.
Director: Peter Liapis | Stars: Andrea Roth, Lisa Dean Ryan, Jaimz Woolvett, Cindy Pickett
Votes: 616
96. 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
97. 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: 1,608
98. The Truth (1960)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
A liberated small-town girl and the family's black sheep moves to Paris with her sister, only to find herself standing trial for the shocking murder of her young lover. Was his killing premeditated or was this a crime of passion?
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Sami Frey
Votes: 4,481
99. If Tomorrow Comes (1986)
304 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tracy was an innocent, in love and pregnant by the son of a wealthy family. She is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit. When she gets out, she proposes to take revenge on the people who framed her.
Stars: Madolyn Smith Osborne, Tom Berenger, David Keith, Jack Weston
Votes: 1,984
100. A Date for Mad Mary (2016)
82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman newly released from prison seeks a date to bring to her best friend's wedding.
Director: Darren Thornton | Stars: Seána Kerslake, Carolyn Bracken, Denise McCormack, Barbara Brennan
Votes: 2,327