1970s Prison Movies

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Women in Cellblock 9(1978)

1h 15min | Drama, Action, Crime

2.2/5 (with 12 votes)

A group of female freedom-fighters led by Karine Levere is caught by the warden of a women's prison, located somwhere in the South American jungle. None of them will reveal the secrets of their organisation or the names of their collaborators in the cities, so they are handed over to Dr. Costa who, after four years inactivity in Europe, is delighted to be able to practice his torture techniques once more. Laverne fails to resist the inhuman treatments and reveals all. The only hope of saving the organization is for the girls to warn the city cell before it's too late. They trick the prison guard into having sex with them, knock him out and break out of prison. The warden and Dr. Costa must prevent them from revealing the practices inside the prison. The hunt is on and it's shoot to kill...

Directed by Jesús Franco - With Howard Vernon, Susan Hemingway, Karine Gambier

The Longest Yard(1974)

| 2h 1min | Comedy, Drama

3.4/5 (with 114 votes)

In this rough-and-tumble yarn, filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prison, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro football team to a national championship.

Directed by Robert Aldrich - With Burt Reynolds, Anitra Ford, Ed Lauter, Eddie Albert, Bernadette Peters, Richard Kiel, ...

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Women in Cages(1971)

1h 21min | Action, Crime, Drama

2.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Carol Jeffries is a naive American woman staying in the Philippines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them.

Directed by Gerardo de León - With Pam Grier, Jennifer Gan, Roberta Collins, Judith Cora Brown

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41(1972)

1h 30min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 33 votes)

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.

Directed by Shunya Itō - With Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Kuniko Ishii, Kayoko Shiraishi

Women in Cell Block 7(1973)

1h 40min | Crime, Drama

2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.

Directed by Rino Di Silvestro - With Anita Strindberg, Eva Czemerys, Jenny Tamburi, Cristina Gaioni, Gabriella Giorgelli, Bedy Moratti, ...

Release the Prisoners to Spring(1975)

1h 37min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 15 votes)

Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who have committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own house is burgled by Harald. He is sentenced to prison. Acting in accordance with her philosophy, Frida decides to use all means possible to make it possible for Harald to escape.

Directed by Tage Danielsson - With Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Margaretha Krook, Lena Nyman, Tage Danielsson, Gösta Ekman, Jan Malmsjö, ...

Porridge(1979)

1h 33min | Comedy, Crime

3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.

Directed by Dick Clement - With Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde, Peter Vaughan, Sam Kelly, ...

The Glass House(1972)

1h 30min | Drama, TV Movie

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As in the outside world, there is a "system"; and just as on the outside, there is accommodation, honesty, cynicism, violence and all the other factors that make up our society. The film follows the three newcomers, it records the grim, terrifying, sometimes fascinating events that occur.

Directed by Tom Gries - With Alan Alda, Vic Morrow, Clu Gulager, Dean Jagger, Kristoffer Tabori, Billy Dee Williams, ...

Human Experiments(1979)

1h 22min | Horror, Crime

2.1/5 (with 6 votes)

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Directed by Gregory Goodell - With Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Aldo Ray, Jackie Coogan, Lurene Tuttle, Philip Proctor, ...

The Superwitness(1971)

1h 44min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Comedy about a man who is sentenced to life imprisonment mainly because of a woman's testimony, but she later marries him during his sentence.

Directed by Franco Giraldi - With Monica Vitti, Ugo Tognazzi, Orazio Orlando, Véronique Vendell, Franco Balducci, Filippo De Gara, ...

I Escaped from Devil's Island(1973)

1h 27min | Action, Adventure, Crime

2.2/5 (with 8 votes)

In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

Directed by William Witney - With Jim Brown, Christopher George, Stephen Whittaker, James Luisi, Richard Rust, Jan Merlin, ...

Cipollino(1973)

1h 21min | Kids & Family, Fantasy

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic produce, Cipollino fights the unjust treatment of his fellow vegetable townsfolk by the fruit royalty (Prince Lemon and the overly proud Lord Tomato) in the garden kingdom.

Directed by Tamara Lisitsian - With Aleksandr Elistratov, Vladimir Basov, Rina Zelyonaya, Aleksandra Panova, Vladimir Belokurov

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich(1970)

1h 45min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway.

Directed by Caspar Wrede - With Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg

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