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1. Oz (1997–2003)

TV-MA | 60 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: 106,863

2. Chicago (2002)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical

Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.

Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs

Votes: 243,631 | Gross: $170.69M

3. Women in Cages (1971)

R | 81 min | Action, Crime, Drama

American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.

Director: Gerardo de Leon | Stars: Judith Brown, Roberta Collins, Jennifer Gan, Pam Grier

Votes: 1,946

4. 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: 7,382

5. Bed of Roses (1933)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Determined to reform upon leaving prison, a former prostitute falls in love with a cotton-barge owner and must choose between him and her banker lover.

Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Pert Kelton

Votes: 1,021

6. The Paradine Case (1947)

Approved | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn

Votes: 12,408

7. Superjail! (2007–2014)

TV-MA | 10 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

In a surreal world, a large maximum security prison, which houses thousands of dangerous inmates is run by an eccentric warden and his equally odd staff.

Stars: David Wain, Teddy Cohn, Christopher McCulloch, Christy Karacas

Votes: 7,879

8. 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: 4,283 | Gross: $0.05M

9. 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: 1,413

10. 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: 4,726

11. They Drive by Night (1940)

Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino

Votes: 8,848

12. 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: 3,354

13. Pound (1970)

X | 92 min | Fantasy

In a pound, 18 dogs wait to be adopted.

Director: Robert Downey Sr. | Stars: Joe Madden, James Green, Mariclare Costello, L. Errol Jaye

Votes: 352

14. The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)

Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A young woman with a difficult past is sentenced for a murder she didn't commit, but revealing the truth could hurt people she loves.

Director: Phil Goldstone | Stars: Zita Johann, John Miljan, Alan Dinehart, Paul Cavanagh

Votes: 782

15. Hold Your Man (1933)

Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A woman is sent to a reformatory when her con artist lover flees after killing a man during a botched blackmail scheme.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Burgess

Votes: 1,815

16. I Want to Live (1983 TV Movie)

100 min | Biography, Drama

The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.

Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Martin Balsam, Pamela Reed, Harry Dean Stanton

Votes: 205

17. Women's Prison (1955)

Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A sadistic prison warden takes out her sexual frustration on her women inmates. While a caring physician tries to improve the jail's brutal atmosphere, a pair of rebellious inmates take matters into their own hands.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore, Audrey Totter

Votes: 1,155

18. 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: 188

19. Flesh (1932)

Passed | 96 min | Drama, Romance

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Wallace Beery, Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Jean Hersholt

Votes: 735

20. Prisonnières (1988)

99 min | Crime, Drama

A women's prison. Women arrive, some for as long as eight years. They work making teddy bears. Dessombes, the head matron, misses little. She gets intelligence from Marthe, an older convict... See full summary »

Director: Charlotte Silvera | Stars: Marie-Christine Barrault, Annie Girardot, Bernadette Lafont, Milva

Votes: 122

21. Convicted Woman (1940)

Approved | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis and a reporter, Jim Brent ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Frieda Inescort, June Lang, Lola Lane

Votes: 289

22. The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957)

Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama

Reform school girls try to make the best of a bad situation.

Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Susan Oliver, Melinda Casey, Beverly Long, Norma Jean Nilsson

Votes: 252

23. Life Begins (1932)

Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance

At a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives wait for their babies either anxiously or happily. Efficient and compassionate nurse Miss Bowers keeps the ward ... See full summary »

Directors: James Flood, Elliott Nugent | Stars: Loretta Young, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon, Glenda Farrell

Votes: 548

24. Girls of the Big House (1945)

Passed | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A college professor's well-bred daughter assumes the name of Jeanne Crail to date Earl Williams, a slick con artist who frames her for robbery. Rather than have her father find out about ... See full synopsis »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Virginia Christine, Marion Martin, Adele Mara

Votes: 29

25. The Chaser (1938)

Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

While the county bar association discusses ambulance chasing by unscrupulous attorneys, one of its members, Thomas Z. Brandon, leaves when he learns the location of an accident. After ... See full synopsis »

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Morriss, Lewis Stone, Nat Pendleton

Votes: 141

26. The Yellow Ticket (1931)

Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, War

A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Walter Byron

Votes: 267

27. The Blonde Bandit (1949)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Newly arrived in a Western city, Kansan Gloria Dell waits at the train station to meet Larry Goodrich, the fiance' she has corresponded with, but never met. When he doesn't arrive, Mrs. ... See full synopsis »

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Robert Rockwell, Dorothy Patrick, Gerald Mohr, Larry J. Blake

Votes: 73

28. Prisión de mujeres (1977)

103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

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Director: René Cardona | Stars: Carmen Montejo, Hilda Aguirre, Zully Keith, Susana Kamini

Votes: 18

29. Ann Vickers (1933)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A prison reformer and a controversial judge fall in love and have a child out of wedlock.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 660

30. Ombline (2012)

95 min | Drama

The journey of a young mother in a prison with her baby boy.

Director: Stéphane Cazes | Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Nathalie Bécue, Corinne Masiero, Catherine Salée

Votes: 306

31. Criminal Investigator (1942)

Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Robert Lowery, Edith Fellows, John Miljan, Jan Wiley

Votes: 63

32. Prisoners in Petticoats (1950)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Joan Grey is a young pianist that falls for the good manners and nice clothes of a gang of mobsters. She is warned by Mark Hampton, an investigator, that she is associating with gangsters ... See full summary »

Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Valentine Perkins, Robert Rockwell, Danni Sue Nolan, Anthony Caruso

Votes: 31

33. School for Girls (1934)

Passed | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Annette Eldrige is sentenced to three years in a reformatory after being caught with stolen jewels. The sadistic woman in charge of the reformatory makes life terrible for everyone; ... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Sidney Fox, Paul Kelly, Lois Wilson, Lucille La Verne

Votes: 31

34. Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939)

Approved | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins, Tom Kennedy, Sheila Bromley

Votes: 426

35. I Give My Love (1934)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama

A woman devotes her life to her son, who went to prison for killing her abusive husband.

Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Paul Lukas, Wynne Gibson, Eric Linden, Anita Louise

Votes: 30

36. The Lone Wolf and His Lady (1949)

Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Lone Wolf (Ron Randell), a retired thief temporarily working for a newspaper, is accused of gem theft.

Director: John Hoffman | Stars: Ron Randell, June Vincent, Alan Mowbray, William Frawley

Votes: 191

37. Bulldog Edition (1936)

Passed | 57 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Ray Walker, Evalyn Knapp, Regis Toomey, Cy Kendall

Votes: 100

38. Women Won't Tell (1932)

Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance

A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Sarah Padden, Otis Harlan, Gloria Shea, Larry Kent

Votes: 47

39. La cage aux filles (1949)

120 min | Drama

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Director: Maurice Cloche | Stars: Danièle Delorme, Jacky Flynt, Louise Lagrange, Denise Bosc

40. Midnight Morals (1932)

Passed | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A rookie cop falls for a "taxi dancer" in a dance hall, but his father has strong objections to the relationship.

Directors: B. Reeves Eason, E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Alberta Vaughn, Rex Lease, Charles Delaney, Beryl Mercer

41. Decoy (1957–1958)
Episode: Deadly Corridor (1957)

26 min | Crime, Drama

Casey poses as a prisoner in a women's jail in order to apprehend a murderer.

Director: Teddy Sills | Stars: Beverly Garland, Lois Nettleton, Peggy Feury, Colleen Dewhurst

Votes: 44

42. Mutant X (2001–2004)
Episode: The Taking of Crows (2003)

Not Rated | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When Lexa is unknowingly drugged with a lethal substance, the team must race to find the antidote before it's too late.

Director: Bill Corcoran | Stars: Victoria Pratt, Victor Webster, Forbes March, Karen Cliche

Votes: 47

43. Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)
Episode: A Special Mischief (1972)

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama

Elizabeth joins the suffragette movement, but in her effort to protect her, Rose is imprisoned.

Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: Jean Marsh, Nicola Pagett, Donald Burton, Christopher Beeny

Votes: 102

44. Mr. & Mrs. North (1952–1954)
Episode: The Girl in Cell 13 (1954)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A fellow-prisoner blackmails a woman in jail.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Barbara Britton, Richard Denning, Francis De Sales, Gloria Henry

Votes: 16

45. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Sins: Part 2 (2008)

TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Sociopathic-sadistic serial killer convict Kelleher, who is dying of cancer, escapes from prison, he takes prison psychiatrist Dr. Hooper with him for unclear reasons.

Director: Daniel Percival | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 132