Guide to Grindhouse Genres: Women In Prison
Women In Prison Sexploitation subgenre films
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- DirectorTed V. MikelsStarsSherri VernonDixie LaurenSally Alice GambleEight 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.
- DirectorRay AustinStarsAlexandra HaySandor ElèsHarry BairdThe daughter of a British prison governor returns from an American finishing school and chases after the inmates of her dad's prison.
- DirectorJesús FrancoBruno MatteiStarsMaria SchellLuciana PaluzziMercedes McCambridgeA 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.
- DirectorOswaldo de OliveiraStarsElizabeth HartmannMaurício do ValleSandra GraffiEdgar, 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.
- DirectorTim KincaidStarsCarey ZurisTeresa FarleyNatalie SavageInmates at a women's prison run by a corrupt warden and her gang of sadistic guards plan a breakout.
- DirectorChih-Hung KueiStarsBirte ToveLieh LoHsieh WangA nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.
- DirectorJack HillStarsPam GrierAnitra FordCandice RomanGrier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
- DirectorErnst Ritter von TheumerStarsTony KendallMonica TeuberWilliam BergerSeven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.
- DirectorJack HillStarsRoberta CollinsPam GrierJudith BrownBeautiful 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.
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsPam GrierMargaret MarkovSid HaigA 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.
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJuanita BrownErica GavinRoberta CollinsIn 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.
- DirectorBruno MatteiStarsLaura GemserGabriele TintiMaria RomanoPhotojournalist Emanuelle goes undercover into a woman's prison, where she discovers and experiences the abuse, torture and humiliation the inmates are subjected to.
- DirectorLee FrostStarsMichael StearnsRobert LottBarbara MillsA 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.
- DirectorPaul NicholasStarsLinda BlairJohn VernonSybil DanningYoung 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.
- DirectorJohn HayesStarsRic LutzeRalph WainMyron GriffinThe 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.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsAndrés ResinoGeneviève RobertDennis PriceA 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.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBert ConvyDebbie AllenMartha SmithMick 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 scientist from international hit-men as she heads for Washington D.C. from the Middle East with her super-secret formulas.
- DirectorEdoardo MulargiaStarsAnthony SteffenAjita WilsonCristina LayAbused female prisoners at an all-women's prison camp in the tropics plot revenge against their sadistic overseers.
- DirectorStephen C. ApostolofStarsJabie AbercrombeRene BondTallie CochraneFive 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.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsRichard DenningJoan TaylorAdele JergensAnne Carson, meeting the seamy side of prison life, finds that everyone thinks she knows where unrecovered bank loot is.
- DirectorYen-Ping ChuStarsBrigitte LinHui-Shan YangSally YehA 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.
- DirectorPatrice RhommStarsMalisa LongoPatrizia GoriClaude JannaHelga moves the action to South America, where she lords over a castle of female political prisoners, who are stripped and tortured at whim.
- DirectorGianni SiragusaStarsAjita WilsonRita SilvaLinda JonesA 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.
- DirectorGianni SiragusaStarsAjita WilsonRita SilvaLinda JonesJulia, 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.
- DirectorJoe ViolaStarsCarmen ArgenzianoAndrea CaganMargaret MarkovHot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.
- DirectorDon EdmondsStarsDyanne ThorneMax ThayerJerry DelonyIn 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.
- DirectorDon EdmondsStarsDyanne ThorneGregory KnophTony MumoloIlsa 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.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsDyanne ThorneLina RomayAngela RitschardAfter 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?
- DirectorJean LaFleurStarsDyanne ThorneMichel MorinJean-Guy LatourIn 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.
- DirectorLee FrostStarsBob CresseMaria LeaseKathy WilliamsTwo female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.
- DirectorCirio H. SantiagoStarsJeannie BellRosanne KatonTrina ParksA band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their leader's sister.
- DirectorTom DeSimoneStarsJacqueline GirouxAnnik BorelTracy HandfussA prison psychiatrist prepares six female inmates for parole by granting them a weekend furlough, during which each of them has a sexual encounter.
- DirectorTom DeSimoneStarsLinda CarolWendy O. WilliamsPat AstA 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.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsAjita WilsonAndrea GuzonUrsula BuchfellnerA 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.
- DirectorMichel LevesqueStarsPhyllis DavisEllarainoTimothy BrownProstitute 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 performs cruel medical experiments on the people who work for him.
- DirectorStephanie RothmanStarsDon MarshallPhyllis DavisEna HartmanAfter 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.
- DirectorRoy RosenbergStarsSusan LeeStella JoneLaura Sode-MattesonA group of women in a prison rise up and revolt against their savage jailers.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsLina RomayMartine StedilNathalie ChapeA 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 where she faces all manner of electric shock treatments to various parts of her anatomy.
- DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsJudith BrownRoberta CollinsJennifer GanAmerican women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.
- DirectorRino Di SilvestroStarsAnita StrindbergEva CzemerysOlga BiseraA woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.
- DirectorDomenico PaolellaStarsGuy MadisonMichèle MercierFederica RanchiFemale 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.
- DirectorBruno MatteiStarsIvano StaccioliRia De SimoneNello RivièA 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 having nude women rub their bodies all over the corpse (that one works), and the experiment tries to "cure" homosexual men by having nude women dance for them. This is only some of the horrors that are going on there.
- DirectorBruno MatteiGilbert RousselStarsLaura GemserGabriele TintiUrsula FloresFour 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.