Best "female prisoner" Movies of All Time

24 movies found (page 1/1):

The Reader(2008)

3.7/5 (with 1,312 votes)

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

Directed by Stephen Daldry - With Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Alexandra Maria Lara, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, ...

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Mary Queen of Scots(2018)

| 2h 4min | Drama, History

3.3/5 (with 821 votes)

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.

Directed by Josie Rourke - With Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Martin Compston, David Tennant, Joe Alwyn, ...

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Nathalie: Escape from Hell(1978)

1h 43min | Drama, Thriller

1.6/5 (with 5 votes)

When a Russian doctor (Patrizia Gori) falls foul of the Nazis, she finds herself imprisoned at Fort Stilberg, a luxury brothel for German top brass where the women are overseen by sadistic SS officer Helga Hortz (Jacqueline Laurent). The doctor's medical skills bring her to the attention of Nazi Lieutenant Erik Mueller (Jack Taylor), who saves the lovely lady from becoming one of the establishment's 'hostesses' by assigning her to the infirmary.

Directed by Alain Payet - With Patrizia Gori, Jacqueline Laurent, Jack Taylor, Jacques Marbeuf, Claudine Beccarie, Rudy Lenoir, ...

Late Autumn(2010)

1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 29 votes)

Anna learns in prison that her mother has passed away in Seattle. Prison officials grants Anna a three day furlough to attend her mother's funeral. Anna embarks on a long trip to Seattle. Hoon is a Korean immigrant who works as a gigolo. Hoon is now on the run from a wealthy client's furious husband. These two seemingly lost souls are about to share three memorable days together.

Directed by Kim Tae-yong - With Tang Wei, Hyun Bi

The Vanished Murderer(2015)

2h 1min | Action, Mystery, Drama, Thriller

2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

In 1932, a prisoner escapes from a women's prison in northern China. Inspector Song Donglu is summoned to investigate the escape.

Directed by Law Chi-leung - With Sean Lau

Fly Me the French Way(1974)

1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

2.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Valerie watches over her cousin's place while he's away for six months. She spends her first night there reading, playing records, and calling her girlfriend Sophie over. That night, members of a crazed sex cult break in and mistakenly kidnap Sophie. Valerie's cousin, a member of this cult, has some incriminating photos and the leader wants to ruin his life. Valerie and Sophie's friend Fred go to the cult's mansion stronghold to stop all this madness.

Directed by Jean Rollin - With Annie Belle, Brigitte Borghese, Catherine Castel, Joëlle Cœur, Marie-Pierre Castel, Willy Braque, ...

Bare Behind Bars(1980)

1h 35min | Crime, Drama

2.5/5 (with 12 votes)

In a women's prison in Brazil, the inmates are young and beautiful, the warden is a sadist, all but one of the guards are cruel, and the nurse is an incompetent cuckoo. To make it difficult for the inmates to hide contraband, they wear no underwear. They are alternately murderous and orgiastic with each other, and they engage in sex play with some of the guards. The warden pimps out inmates to wealthy lesbians. With the help of the nurse and under the cover of Carnival, three inmates stage an escape. Once out, will they contrive to stay undiscovered, or will their natures guarantee an ill-fated end to their attempt?

Directed by Oswaldo de Oliveira

Roxie Hart(1942)

| 1h 12min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.

Directed by William Augustus Wellman - With Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Lynne Overman, Nigel Bruce, Phil Silvers, ...

Ladies They Talk About(1933)

| 1h 9min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

Directed by Howard Bretherton, William Keighley - With Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Cecil Cunningham, Dorothy Burgess, Grace Cunard, Harold Huber, ...

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Gasbags(1941)

1h 17min | War, Adventure, Comedy

2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.

Directed by Marcel Varnel, Walter Forde - With Theodore Zichy

House of Whipcord(1974)

1h 42min | Horror

3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways.

Directed by Pete Walker - With David McGillivray, Patrick Barr, Pete Walker, Beau Bassin-Rose Hill, Sheila Keith, Ron Smerczak, ...

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You and Me(1938)

| 1h 30min | Crime, Romance / Love, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

Directed by Fritz Lang - With Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey, Robert Cummings, Ellen Drew, ...

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The Odds(2019)

1h 47min | Horror

2.8/5 (with 20 votes)

A young woman enlists in an underground game of pain endurance in the hope of winning the million dollar prize. She soon learns the real opponent is the man who's running the game, as he employs horrific methods to manipulate and defeat her.

Two Thousand Women(1944)

1h 37min | War, Comedy, Drama

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.

Directed by Frank Launder - With Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc

Jail House Eros(1989)

1h 24min | Comedy, Horror

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

In Jail House, Blackie has concocted a perfect escape plan. Then wardress 5354 is killed by accident when making love. She becomes the bad ghost, in contrast to the good ghost who dies in a previous escape attempt. Finally, the chief warden, the interior decorators, Blackie and the good ghost come to an agreement. They would get the chief warden's girl friend, the exorcist, to banish the bad ghost. To leave quietly too are Blackie and the good ghost...

Paid(1930)

| 1h 26min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her conviction.

Directed by Sam Wood - With Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Douglass Montgomery, Marie Prevost, Polly Moran, Clarence Wilson, ...

The Detention Girls(1969)

1h 17min | Thriller

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A pretty young college student is arrested during a demonstration. She is taken to a notorious detention center, where she is subjected to sexual harassment by lesbian inmates and guards, and becomes the target of a sadistic, bullwhip-wielding warden.

Within These Walls(2001)

1h 40min | Drama, TV Movie

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Female prisoners train dogs to aid people with disabilities in a program started by a nun (Laura Dern).

On Our Own(1998)

1h 15min | Comedy, Drama

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their solo-mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting. Rather than have the news leak out and have to be escorted off with the eccentric welfare officer, they invent a 'never present' dad who is looking after them.

Directed by Lone Scherfig - With Benjamin Boe Rasmussen, Charlotte Munksgaard, Claus Gerving, Kristian Holm Joensen, Lars Kaalund, Lillian Tillegreen, ...

The Goocher(2020)

1h 26min | Horror

0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

When 6 strangers are left in the woods to fend for their lives, there's one enemy they weren't expecting.

Torture Chronicles Continues: 100 Years(1977)

1h 2min | History, Drama

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Another rare Wakamatsu for y'all.....this time from his late 70s shintoho roughies/torture era. A sort of sequel to Torture Chronicles: 100 Years of Torture Inquisition, and much along the same lines as that and Female Rape and Torture as far as plot and production values goes. The contionue of 100 Years of Torture: The History.

Death Fury(1975)

59min | Drama, TV Movie

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A woman who killed her husband by accident comes out of prison after sixteen years to meet with her two children at municipality office. Before children's arrival, she recalls her supposedly happy marriage that turned into a nightmare when her husband's brother came back from Germany and begun to influence her husband in a bad way.

Directed by Zdravko Šotra - With Olga Spiridonović, Zoran Radmilović, Nikola Simić, Borivoje Todorović, Velimir Životić, Nadežda Vukičević, ...

Run Like Hell(1995)

1h 20min | Science Fiction, Thriller

1.0/5 (with 2 votes)

In the year of 2008, war and sickness have overtaken the planet. The deranged government declares single women a threat to the human race. Singles women are imprisoned. The corrupt warden is determined to keep the prisoners locked up.

In Paradisum(1993)

56min | Documentary

In Paradisum relates two disturbing stories simultaneously. The female narrator tells her personal tale of imprisonment as the wife of the notorious Estonian serial killer, Andreas Hanni. Although her story is bizarre, it touches familiar themes that run throughout modern life: the desire to be loved and the fear of being alone. Pille Hanni's tale unfolds over cinema vérité images of life in several Estonian prisons. At times the images reflect in a literary way the events of the narration, yet they are representations and impressions, rather than traditional documentary style footage of the people involved. This opens the story to a more general interpretation, often with unsettling results. The parallel contents reveal, at two levels of story and social organisation, how the bizarre and inhuman can be tolerable and even addictive in the face of our fears.

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