Movies like The Detention Girls
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The Detention Girls (1969)
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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 warden.
Style:
controversial, transgressive, tension, retro, period piece, independent film, campy, cult film, nostalgic
Plot:
female prisoner, women in prison, prison, sexual abuse, mature, sexual harassment, reformatory, exploitation, sexploitation, corruption, taboo, voyeur, prison violence, abuse of power, psychological abuse, political protest, police arrest, bondage, sadomasochism, survival, revenge, rape, women's prison, violence, female nudity ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
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Most similar movies to The Detention Girls
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark, period piece, grindhouse and independent film films with plots about female nudity, exploitation, sexploitation, women's prison, women in prison, violence and prison mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Detention Girls: Hiroku Nagasaki onna-ro (1971), Gutter Trash (1969), Hell Penitentiary (1984), The Concrete Jungle (1982), Prison Heat (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Shocking scenes are revealed in the Nagasaki Women's prison.
Style:
dark, grim, intense, period piece, erotic
Plot:
women's prison, violence, cruelty, sexual abuse, victimization, suffering, trauma, moral corruption, claustrophobia, punishment, pink film, isolation ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film centers around a Korean family who gets on the bad side of the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II.A Korean mother and daughter are thrown into a prison run by the Japanese and a lot of surprisingly tame ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, tense, dark, art house
Plot:
female protagonist, japanese occupation, oppression, torture, mother daughter relationship, escape, survival, abuse, prisoner of war camp, social injustice, revenge, trauma ...
Similarity:
38%
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:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
An imprisoned model recalls the debached times with her degenerate boss, her drug dealer, and a clean-cut young man whom wants her to quit her nude modeling profession to make a life for herself elsewhere.
Style:
grindhouse, dark, bleak, transgressive, retro ...
Plot:
prison, drug, exploitation, sexploitation, mature, sexual abuse, assault, sex work, drug dealer, urban, voyeur, desperation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
31%
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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 ...
Style:
grindhouse, dark, tension, cult classic, noir ...
Plot:
lesbian sex, women in prison, women's prison, exploitation, sexploitation, violence, sexualized violence, undercover, sexual abuse, prison, corruption, revenge ...
Similarity:
28%
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:
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:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Nami Matsushima, prisoner #701 is sent to a Woman's Prison for attempted murder. Nami is brought into Number 2 community cell, where suicides and unnatural deaths occurred one after another. In the punishment cell, Nami begins to look back in ...
Style:
sexy, sexploitation film
Plot:
women's prison, prison, female prisoner, prisoner, prison warden, prison violence, prison guard, sexploitation, female nudity, asian sex, badass female lead, rape ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Four American babes on vacation in the Middle East run into trouble when they are imprisoned by corrupt army officials and that's where the fun begins.
Style:
sexy, erotic, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
women's prison, women in prison, depravity, sexual relations, female prisoner, rape victim, rape, lesbian rape, lust, female nudity, false accusation, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
26%
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:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young hitchhiker is picked up by four drunken hunters, one of whom rapes her. A tough prosecutor has all four of the men indicted for the crime, which results in a suicide and a murder-for-hire plot.
Style:
dark, disturbing, crime drama, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
rape and revenge, rape, revenge, murder, sexual abuse, hitchhiking, female protagonist, trauma, retribution, contract killing, violent, hitman ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
25%
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:
25%
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:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Tells the story of an oppressive revolutionary government randomly arresting unsuspecting citizens. The men are used to target practice and the women become prostitutes.
Style:
grim, bleak, dark drama, period piece, political thriller
Plot:
prostitution, sexual abuse, violence, sexploitation, revenge, victimization, abuse of power, corruption, psychological trauma, political oppression, human trafficking, orphan ...
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, sadistic, tragic
Plot:
women's prison, torture, survival, brutality, escape attempt, female protagonist, desperation, resilience, captivity, oppression, concentration camp, prison escape ...
Place:
east asia, china, korea
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Teenage nurses give love therapy. Lots of action when they try to straighten out the corrupt hospital staff.
Style:
medical drama, tension, suspense, period piece, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
exploitation, healing, female empowerment, investigation, rebellion, scandal, nurse, hospital, sexploitation, revenge, sensuality, vigilante justice ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at ...
Style:
crying, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, lesbian rape, prison, brutality, cruelty, rape victim, lesbianism, sexual humiliation, raped woman, murder, sexploitation ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
23%
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:
22%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Female prisoners in a Phillippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women--along with the help of two men--plot an escape.
Style:
grindhouse, art house, cult classic, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
exploitation, women in prison, women's prison, sexploitation, blaxploitation, female prisoner, erotica, lechery, woman in jeopardy, escape, fugitives, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Philippines
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An adventure movie by Kurt Raab.
Style:
classic horror, gothic horror, gay cinema
Plot:
women's prison, women in prison, island prison, prison escape, torture, cruelty, punishment, prison guard, dwarf, blood, prison, escape attempt ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to ...
Style:
erotic, grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, serious ...
Plot:
nunsploitation, erotica, nun, perversion, pervert, moral corruption, decadence, sexual desire, revenge, rape, brutality, evil nun ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The story of three women and the circumstances that led each to get involved in prostitution as call girls.
Style:
realistic, period piece, psychological, intense, retro ...
Plot:
sex work, prostitution, sexuality, character study, women's issues, prostitute, exploitation, survival, taboo, branding iron, urban, social realism ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Japanese lady gets framed for killing her man and is shipped off to prison in California. She escape and seek vengeance against those who wronged them.
Plot:
women's prison, female nudity, badass female lead, superhero, sexploitation, women in prison, fight, rape and revenge, revenge, violence, brutality, lesbian ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
While on a leisurely ride in the country, a kinky dominatrix picks up a young male hitchhiker. At the first opportunity she handcuffs and blindfolds him, then takes him to a farmhouse where she ties up the young man and brings out three of her ...
Style:
erotic, transgressive, controversial, tension, erotic drama ...
Plot:
dominant woman, hitchhiker, fetishism, sexual content, taboo, sadomasochism, bdsm, humiliation, kidnapping, sexual abuse, abuse, captive ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Kang-hie recalls from her cell how she was used by Japanese detectives to track down and destroy the Korean Independence fighters. She manages to escape from prison during a break and proceeds to hunt down her former lover who was a Japanese agent.
Style:
suspenseful, historical drama, dark, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
women in prison, female prisoner, prison break, japanese occupation, revenge, coercion, underground movement, political oppression, nationalism, collaboration, espionage, determination ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
korea
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
This last gasp of the grindhouse "Olga" series is a tossed off shrug of a movie that nonetheless entertains in a tacky, surreal style. Audrey Campbell no longer stars as the sinister femme fatale Olga, and her replacement retains none of ...
Style:
grindhouse, erotic, surreal, period piece, psychological ...
Plot:
prostitution, bondage, exploitation, sleazy, nude dance, sexploitation, nudity, swingers, group sex, strip club, underground, voyeur ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
A young woman gets sexually used and abused by every man she meets while on her way to rising to the top of Hollywood's entertainment industry.
Style:
grindhouse, disturbing, dark, controversial, erotic drama ...
Plot:
rape, sexploitation, showbiz, sexual abuse, hollywood, mature, aspiring actress, casting couch, voyeurism, predator, manipulation, desperation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles, las vegas
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Philippines
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Indonesian film about a Punjabi girl getting tricked into living with a big time pimp. Uncle MG as they call him, abducts virgins, and forces them to submit to his hymen bustin ways. The not so attractive gals get several chances to marry Uncle MG, ...
Style:
controversial, bleak, dark, noir, period piece ...
Plot:
women's prison, human trafficking, pimp, prostitution, sexual abuse, prison, rape, sexploitation, exploitation, abduction, patriarchy, victimization ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
20%
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