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Hell Penitentiary (1984)
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Original name: Detenute violente
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When her sister turns up dead, Julia (Linda Jones) tries to convince the cops that a notorious gangster is to blame by going undercover as a prisoner to unearth the only witness to the crime. Problems arise when the sexually perverse warden (Rita Silva) adopts Julia as her new plaything and throws her noble mission off-course. Ajita Wilson and Alessandro Freyberger co-star in this erotically charged thriller.
Style:
dark, grindhouse, tension, cult classic, noir, sexploitation film, cult film
Plot:
lesbian sex, women in prison, women's prison, exploitation, sexploitation, violence, undercover, sexual abuse, sexualized violence, prison, revenge, investigation, corruption, sleaze, claustrophobia, criminal underworld, prison escape, witness protection, medical student, prison riot, lesbian, female nudity, death, transsexual, lesbianism ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out grindhouse, sexploitation film, rough and psychotronic films with plots about women's prison, female nudity, women in prison, exploitation, prison, sexploitation and female full frontal nudity mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Hell Penitentiary: Hell Behind the Bars (1984), Amazon Jail (1982), Barbed Wire Dolls (1976), Hotel Paradise (1980), Women's Prison (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A woman murders her boyfriends and steals some diamonds he has smuggled. She gets found out though, and locked in a prison with an evil sadistic lesbian warden. She immediately sets about planning her escape with some of her fellow inmates, but the ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, prison, female masturbation, female nudity, bisexual woman, murder, planting evidence, bisexual, infirmary, lgbt, sadist ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Young women in the Amazon are kidnapped by a ring of devil-worshipers, who plan to sell them as sex slaves. Some of the women escape, but are pursued into the jungle by their captors. The women must band together to turn the tables on their ...
Style:
erotic, tense, suspense, sensual
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, sexploitation, sexual humiliation, amazon rainforest, devil worship, lesbian sex, erotica, lesbian interest, lesbianism, survival, sex ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After killing her father who had attempted to rape her, Maria da Guerra is sentenced to prison for life. The wardress is a sadistic lesbian without mercy or humanity. Upon her arrival Maria is taken to a special section for mentally disturbed ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, sadistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
women's prison, dominatrix, women in prison, wrongful imprisonment, sadism, prison, female protagonist, exploitation, prison warden, female masturbation, sexy girls, sexploitation ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
At a female prison located deep within the deadly South American jungles, a group of woman are forced to mine for valuable emeralds for the local corrupt government. A group of new prisoners on the way to the jail are ambushed and are convinced to ...
Style:
sensual, scenic, sexploitation film
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, jungle, escape, death, torture, slavery, sexual intercourse, intercourse, lesbian interest, male nudity, exploitation ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to reenter society-are brought to the limits of depravity. Martine, wrongly imprisoned will bear the scars of a prison system wrongly based on punishment rather than ...
Style:
suspense, sexploitation film
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, sexploitation, lesbian sex, wrongful conviction, exploitation, female nudity, nudity, jail, humiliation, innocent, fight ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in some Latin American country. In the prison she gets brutally "initiated" by the other inmates. The nice, honest and handsome prison doctor believe she's innocent and ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
women in prison, erotica, prison, women's prison, lesbian sex, female prisoner, lesbian rape, lust, fugitives, exploitation, nudity, woman in jeopardy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is dealt with swiftly and savagely. The camp doctor is ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
women in prison, punishment, prison, anal rape, death, rape, female whipping, partner, gang rape, female nudity, lesbianism, female prisoner ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players. They drive the bus to the house of the judge who originally sent them to prison, where--since this is after all a ...
Style:
suspense, sensual, sexploitation film
Plot:
lesbian rape, big breasts, women's prison, women in prison, murder of a nude woman, lesbianism, prostitute, lesbian, sex, lesbian sex, sexploitation, exploitation ...
Time:
year 1978
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Eight 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. The eight get sent to a prison where a butch head guard uses ...
Style:
grindhouse, psychotronic, cult classic, independent film
Plot:
women in prison, prison, cocaine, female nudity, nudity, heist, women's prison, sex, woman with a gun, sheik, undercover cop, kung fu ...
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An American tourist lands in a Slavic prison run by a twisted woman and the U.S. ambassador.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, grindhouse ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
women in prison, prison, violence against women, lesbianism, sex, abuse, sex slave, female nudity, lesbian, erotica, lesbian sex, women's prison ...
Time:
90s
Place:
czech republic, europe, prague
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
It's the year 3000 AD. The world's most dangerous women are banished to a remote asteroid 45 million light years from earth. Kira Murphy doesn't belong; wrongfully accused of a crime she did not commit, she's thrown in this ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
female fight, women in prison, women's prison, woman with a gun, kickass, female nudity, torture, corruption, prison guard, outer space, female protagonist, rape ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The German Frau Gelli runs a school aimed at girls from wealthy families who presented problems of social behavior and challenge the established principles. In order to educate the young, Frau Gelli imposes an iron discipline, in which is assisted ...
Style:
dark, harsh, tense, crime drama, controversial ...
Plot:
women's prison, women in prison, abuse of power, punishment, reformatory, oppression, authoritarianism, murder, exploitation, sadism, violent, victimization ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.
Style:
psychotronic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Plot:
women in prison, prison rape, women's prison, lesbianism, lesbian sex, female nudity, lesbian, prison, attempted rape, rape, violence, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An unfortunate and naive girl is set-up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sent to a women's correctional facility where she must constantly struggle to survive.
Style:
sexy, erotic, soap opera, cult classic, psychotronic ...
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, prison, jungle, warden, corruption, survival, villainess, drug, murderer, bare breasts, innocence ...
Time:
year 1982
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Women who have been captured and sold as slave labor to a South American emerald mine hatch a plan for revolution and revenge.
Style:
erotic, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, rape, sadism, captivity, nudity, female nudity, payback, woman with a gun, shootout, island, sexploitation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Emanuelle goes undercover into a prison to expose the corrupted officials who are brutalizing the inmates. Emanuelle is shocked by the horrors and humiliation the prisoners are subjected to, but when her true identity is discovered, she finds ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, erotic, sexual ...
Plot:
women's prison, women in prison, female prisoner, prison, sexploitation, female masturbation, female exploitation, female nudity, lesbianism, outdoor sex, voyeurism, woman in danger ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after drink driving and killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, grindhouse ...
Plot:
prison, women in prison, rape and revenge, women's prison, prison rape, rape, big breasts, sexual abuse, rape victim, sadism, female prisoner, voyeur ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A nurse is framed for her involvement in the hospital murder of a politician who was threatening to expose corrupt practices. She escapes from jail but is captured and sent back, resulting in the rest of the inmates being punished, added to which of ...
Style:
dark, bloody, crime drama, grim, cult classic ...
Plot:
exploitation, asian sex, women in prison, prison violence, revenge, vengeance, wrongful conviction, punishment, strong female lead, brutality, survival, escape attempt ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Laura Regueira is wrongly accused of the murder of her boyfriend, he was killed by a band of thugs the night they were sharing a romantic moment. In the woman's reformatory Laura, besides of having to endure the life of prisoner, will have the ...
Style:
crime thriller, dark, intense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
women's prison, wrongful conviction, drug traffic, prostitution, reformatory, injustice, sexploitation, abuse of power, corruption, survival, prison, betrayal ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: Japan
Story:
Nami Matsushima has escaped from the prison to which she was sentenced in Scorpion, but is now obsessed with tracking down the--don't laugh--one-armed man who murdered her younger sister fifteen years ago. Nami is certainly no great action ...
Style:
crime drama, dark, grindhouse, neo noir
Plot:
women's prison, sexploitation, revenge, female protagonist, obsession, prison escape, exploitation, nudity, investigation, violent, murder mystery, criminal underworld ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Silvia is incarcerated in a corrupt women prison and forced to participate in drug distribution. When she refuses she is punished and her sister murdered. She will try to get free and get her revenge.
Style:
dark, bleak
Plot:
women in prison, female protagonist, revenge, female vigilante, corruption, abuse of power, drug traffic, injustice, retribution, escape, exploitation, escape attempt ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A former female cop is framed by corrupt police, acting in collusion with the local judge, and has to fight her way out of the pen, alone, against tough inmates, and the people in charge.
Style:
grindhouse, realistic, serious, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
women in prison, lesbian sex, adult filmmaking, female nudity, lesbianism, women's prison, lesbian, prison, false accusation, voyeurism, voyeur, nudity ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's ...
Style:
grindhouse, brutal, tense, crime drama, cult classic ...
Plot:
women in prison, exploitation, sexploitation, female protagonist, strong female lead, female vigilante, vengeance, survival, prison violence, wrongful imprisonment, justice, torture ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: Japan
Story:
Nami Matsushima, a former doctor, is put in prison for murdering one of the men who raped and killed her sister. Now, faced with violent and lecherous prison gangs, an aggressively amorous warden, and with a friend on death row, Nami must steel ...
Style:
grim, brutal, dark, bleak, neo noir
Plot:
women in prison, revenge, vengeance, female vigilante, survival, retribution, violent, violence against women, sexual abuse, corruption, moral ambiguity, female empowerment ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Portugal
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Former Miss Spanish Basque Country, Pilar Orive, stars as American Janet Cooper who is drugged and shipped to a remote women's prison managed by a sleazy warden and a Nazi-type lesbian guard. 90 minute of graphic sexual abuse ensue
Style:
grindhouse
Audience:
adult
Plot:
women in prison, voyeurism, prison, blaxploitation, jail, women's prison, woman without panties, female pubic hair, woman in jeopardy, nudity, killing, public nudity ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Soon after newlyweds Olga and Michel set foot on the grounds of a notorious women's prison, they're arrested by topless guards and ushered behind bars where the warden quickly dismisses Michel but demands that Olga do a little time.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, disturbing ...
Plot:
dog sex, zoophilia, female nudity, women in prison, coitus, sex, lesbian sex, forced prostitution, women's prison, sexploitation, eroticism, female pubic hair ...
Time:
80s
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.
Style:
poliziottesco, grindhouse, psychotronic
Plot:
women's prison, prison, exploitation, lesbian, lesbianism, murder of a nude woman, corruption, lgbt, women in prison, water, heroin, death ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a stripper finds out that her sister has been murdered while in prison, she seeks revenge in this pulse-racing action-thriller. The cast features a glorious mixture of lawless rock & roll stars such as Lemmy (from Motorhead) and Tracii ...
Style:
action thriller, tense, brutal, dark, grindhouse ...
Plot:
revenge, stripper, vengeance, vigilante, murder, violent, exploitation, female protagonist, assassin, criminal underworld, underground, blood ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
controversial, transgressive, tension, retro, period piece ...
Plot:
female prisoner, women in prison, prison, mature, sexual harassment, reformatory, sexual abuse, exploitation, sexploitation, corruption, voyeur, abuse of power ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
women in prison, prison, women's prison, female prisoner, lesbianism, wrongful conviction, lust, lesbian, female nudity, prison riot, blonde, bare breasts ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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