WIP Wednesday
by dariuswhiteplume | created - 06 Sep 2011 | updated - 09 Nov 2011 | PublicDespite the rigid formula of this genre, there is such variety in the Women in Prison genre, be it style or substance. Most are modern(ish) prison tales, but they can be ancient lands, future space, or even in a convent. See my reviews here http://adventuresinnerdliness.blogspot.com/p/wip-wednesday-index.html
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1. 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: 749
2. 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: 2,667
3. 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: 2,984 | Gross: $2.51M
4. 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: 820
5. Girls Town (1959)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Silver is a troubled teenage girl sent to a Catholic reform school, where she has trouble fitting in.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé, Ray Anthony, Margaret Hayes
Votes: 1,003
6. 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: 2,629 | Gross: $6.15M
7. 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: 2,987 | Gross: $0.10M
8. 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: 3,636 | Gross: $0.19M
9. Caged Fury (1990)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action
Discontent leads to a daring escape plan in a women's prison where the inmates are all lingerie clad models and the lesbian warden demands unusual favours for early parole.
Director: Bill Milling | Stars: Kascha, Gregory Scott Cummins, Elizabeth Hicks, Sydney Coale
Votes: 1,261
10. 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: 1,332
11. 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: 1,593
12. Stuck! (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly imprisoned, while the neighbor whose ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Balderson | Stars: Karen Black, Jane Wiedlin, Susan Traylor, Mink Stole
Votes: 242
13. Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay (1971)
Unrated | 86 min | Horror
Two French girls get lost in the woods and accidentally enter the realm of sorceress Morgana Le Fay - who gives them the choice of either staying young forever as her lovers, or rot in a dungeon for eternity.
Director: Bruno Gantillon | Stars: Dominique Delpierre, Alfred Baillou, Mireille Saunin, Régine Motte
Votes: 810
14. Oz (1997–2003)
TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A series chronicling the daily activities of an unusual prison facility and its criminal inhabitants.
Stars: Ernie Hudson, J.K. Simmons, Lee Tergesen, Dean Winters
Votes: 106,626
15. 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: 821
16. Prison-a-Go-Go! (2003)
R | 84 min | Action, Comedy
A women-in-prison action comedy featuring girls running amok! Multiple Shower Scenes! Kung Fu Food Fights! Mutant Zombies! Evil Scientists, Prominent Product Placement, and Mud Wrastlin!
Director: Barak Epstein | Stars: Rhonda Shear, Mary Woronov, Laurie Walton, Travis Willingham
Votes: 338
17. 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: 4,863
18. Condemned (I) (2010)
14 min | Short, Drama
Desperate, branded, forgotten by the law, Female Convict #1031 fights to stay alive in the concrete womb.
Director: Oren Shai | Stars: Margaret Anne Florence, Aprella, Ashlie Atkinson
Votes: 38
19. 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: 644
20. Behind Convent Walls (1978)
95 min | Drama, Romance
On the surface the women at the convent are your average nuns. However, what they get up to in their spare time is far from what you'd expect from nuns.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Ligia Branice, Howard Ross, Marina Pierro, Gabriella Giacobbe
Votes: 1,346
21. The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Not Rated | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko
Votes: 11,637
22. Werewolf in a Womens Prison (2006 Video)
83 min | Horror
When camping with her boyfriend, Sarah is attacked by a werewolf. She wakes up in a corrupt prison only to find out her boyfriend has been torn apart and she is the only suspect.
Director: Jeff Leroy | Stars: Victoria De Mare, Eva Derrek, Vinnie Bilancio, Jackeline Olivier
Votes: 566
23. Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1961)
Approved | 83 min | Horror, Mystery
At a girls' school, several students are murdered by a snarling, wolf/man-like creature. Suspicion falls upon a newly-arrived teacher.
Director: Paolo Heusch | Stars: Barbara Lass, Carl Schell, Curt Lowens, Maurice Marsac
Votes: 1,310
24. Sacred Flesh (2000)
Not Rated | 75 min | Horror
Taunted by visions of Mary Magdalene, who reveals the confessions of the younger nuns at the convent, the Mother Superior's mind is filled with the violent, sexual acts of her fellow sisters.
Director: Nigel Wingrove | Stars: Sally Tremaine, Moyna Cope, Simon Hill, Kristina Bill
Votes: 555
25. Bare Behind Bars (1980)
X | 87 min | Adult, Crime, Drama
In a prison, women rebel against the guards' sadism and sexual abuse and decide to run away. Some manage to escape and are chased by the Police.
Director: Oswaldo de Oliveira | Stars: Maria Stella Splendore, Neide Ribeiro, Márcia Fraga, Danielle Ferrite
Votes: 968
26. Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young woman, rendered mute after a childhood sexual assault, is trained to seek violent revenge on those who kidnapped and forced her into prostitution.
Director: Bo Arne Vibenius | Stars: Christina Lindberg, Heinz Hopf, Despina Tomazani, Per-Axel Arosenius
Votes: 8,517
27. Prisoner (1979–1986)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama
The lives of the staff and inmates of a women's prison.
Stars: Elspeth Ballantyne, Barbara Jungwirth, Betty Bobbitt, Sheila Florance
Votes: 2,233
28. 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: 1,485
29.
Femme Fatales (2011–2012)
Episode:
Behind Locked Doors
(2011)
TV-MA | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lacey Rivers (Kit Willesee) and prison guard, Rafe (Will Poston), grow closer as Lacey attempts to plot her release from incarceration at Cuesta Verde Women's Correctional Facility.
Director: Greg Pritikin | Stars: Kit Willesee, Will Poston, Ana Alexander, J.C. Brandy
Votes: 162
30. Red Heat (1985)
R | 104 min | Thriller
An American woman visiting her fiancée in West Germany is caught up with a defecting spy and captured by those in the East. After brutal interrogation she is placed in a prison along with ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Collector, Ernst Ritter von Theumer | Stars: Linda Blair, Sylvia Kristel, Sue Kiel, William Ostrander
Votes: 885
31. St. Trinian's (2007)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Family
In order to save their bankrupt school, a group of troublesome girls stage a robbery with a group of geniuses on their backs
Directors: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson | Stars: Talulah Riley, Rupert Everett, Gemma Arterton, Jodie Whittaker
Votes: 23,620
32. Jungle Warriors (1984)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a drug baron's private army. At the same... See full summary »
Directors: Ernst Ritter von Theumer, Billy Fine | Stars: Nina van Pallandt, Paul L. Smith, John Vernon, Alex Cord
Votes: 468
33. Bad Girls (1999–2006)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama
British hard-hitting drama about the staff and inmates of a women's prison.
Stars: Kika Mirylees, Victoria Alcock, Helen Fraser, Jack Ellis
Votes: 2,590
34. 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
35. Sugar Boxx (2009)
R | 86 min | Crime, Drama
Sexy reporter Valerie March goes undercover inside Sugar State Woman's Prison to expose a prostitution ring run by the sleazy and seductive warden.
Director: Cody Jarrett | Stars: Geneviere Anderson, Thela Brown, Linda Dona, Kitten Natividad
Votes: 362
36. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Matsu is sheltered by an incestuous prostitute on her run from the police, her ex-prison mate and a cop whose arm she hacked off.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Mikio Narita, Reisen Ri, Yayoi Watanabe
Votes: 2,103
Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable
37. Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song (1973)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Once again on the lam, Matsu is helped by a strip club worker who holds a grudge against the detective who's trying to find her.
Director: Yasuharu Hasebe | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, Yumi Kanei, Hiroshi Tsukata
Votes: 1,602
Female Prisoner #710 Scorpion: Grudge Song
38. Women in Chains (1972 TV Movie)
74 min | Drama
Female parole officer poses as an inmate in a women's prison in order to investigate murder, abuse and living conditions.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Ida Lupino, Belinda Montgomery, Lois Nettleton, Jessica Walter
Votes: 187
An ABC "Movie of the Week" WIP Film?!?
39. 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: 837
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