Women's prison movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant women's prison movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, tense, erotic, rough and captivating films and TV shows about / with women's prison, female nudity, women in prison, prison, female full frontal nudity, lesbian, nude, nudity, sexploitation and violence plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, France, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as women's prison: Jailbait (2014), Barbed Wire Dolls (1976), Wentworth (2013), Prison Heat (1993), Caged Hearts (1995), Contrainte par corps (1988), Locked Up (2017), Locked Up (2015), Hellhole Women (1981), Emmanuelle in Hell (1982).
Best films
New films
| Back Roads (2018) | 6.3 | |
| The Convict (2021) | 7.1 | |
| A Simple Favor (2018) | 6.7 | |
| Winner (2024) | 6.5 | |
| In the Mud (2025) | 6.3 |
List of women's prison movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A gritty coming of age thriller about a young girl sent to juvenile prison for the murder of her abusive step father. The film follows Anna Nix's journey into the dark world of an all girls jail where she discovers complex relationships, drugs, ...
Style:
emotional, erotic, rough, suspense, art house ...
Plot:
women's prison, women in prison, prison, female female relationship, juvenile detention, prison sex, voyeur, prison life, survival, teenage life, confined, naked woman ...
Time:
21st century
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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 ...
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27K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
prison, lesbian, women in prison, women's prison, protest, power struggle, lesbian relationship, lgbtq, prison life, danger, convict, government facility ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
australia
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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
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Kate and Sharon kill a man in self defense and are framed by the justice system. They are put in prison and forced into prostitution. With the help of their defense attorney, they devise a plan to bust out of prison and hopefully expose the group of ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, forced prostitution, nudity, prison, rough sex, hotel, execution, secret organization, frame up, fight, forced confession ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young Frenchwoman Claire, resting with her friend on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, becoms the victim of harassment by the local police commissioner Castes. Accused for disturbing public order, and then in the drug trade, she gets to the ...
Style:
dark, grim, tense, suspense, political thriller ...
Plot:
corruption, women's prison, false accusation, police chase, female protagonist, abuse of power, trauma, brutality, oppression, sexual abuse, victimization, survival ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When an American teenager gets bullied at her school in Southeast Asia, she fights back--and gets sent to a reform school. But the "school" is more like a prison, and the young teenager must fend off predatory guards and menacing gangs to ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, female masturbation, female bully, bullying, female orgasm, evil woman, boxing training, death threat, prison, sexploitation, female nudity ...
Place:
thailand
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
King Lim is the oppressive ruler of a country on the verge of revolution. The CIA arranges a fake assassination to get him safely out of the country, but his daughter is captured in the ensuing melee and sent to The Rock, an island penitentiary ...
Style:
psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
women's prison, women in prison, female nudity, rape, bare breasts, prison, female fighter, female fight, violence, sexual harassment, hanged woman, sexploitation ...
Is relevant?
30K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
women's prison, prison guard, lesbian, women in prison, female prisoner, corruption, prison, female homosexuality, lgbtq, dishonesty, jail, brutality ...
Place:
new mexico
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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
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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
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Marie Lamontagne, a widowed mother of two in her forties, confesses to a murder she didn't commit to protect her daughter. Thrust into brutally unfamiliar and hostile surroundings, she first learns survival, then confronts the biggest challenge ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, psychological, gloomy
Plot:
women's prison, prison, family problems, attempted murder, confined, prison life, rehabilitation, family in crisis, warden, lgbtq, lesbian love, pop culture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
After a fateful domestic clash, a devoted mother finds herself in prison and fighting to survive in hopes of reuniting with her daughter.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, queer cinema
Plot:
women's prison, prison life, drug addict, women in prison, prison, murder, lesbian attraction, prison gang, judge, courtroom, marriage, police ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A beautiful young girl parachutes onto a remote, isolated island, and finds herself taken prisoner by a gang of criminals hiding out there.
Style:
suspense, tropical, erotic
Plot:
female nudity, women's prison, young woman, remote island, criminal gang, island, kidnapping, captivity, exploitation, female protagonist, isolation, peril ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A crime movie directed by Jess Franco.
Style:
detective, grindhouse, sexploitation film
Plot:
private detective, women's prison, sadomasochism, nudity, female pubic hair, gender bending, lesbian, lesbian sex, female nudity, lesbianism, sexploitation, stripper ...
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
There is no possibility of escape from slavery in the New Territories: the choice is simple, the mine slave mines or love slave.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, sensual, sexploitation film
Plot:
sex slavery, female warden, women's prison, lesbian sex, lesbianism, lesbian threesome, erotica, rebel army, sex slave, dominant woman, seduction, fight ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 2000s
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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
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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 ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Coming soon
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
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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
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
"Block B - Under Arrest" is the story of Bea Kroeger, who is charged with attempted murder of her husband. During the pre-trial detention in the prison Tempelhof they must fight for their place in the pecking order among the inmates ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
prison, imprisoned, women's prison, jailed, women in prison, jail, prison sentence, prison life, problem, framed for murder, accusation, female protagonist ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When call girl Cindy (Joslyn James, notorious from the golfing scandal) gets busted under the new 36 Strikes Law, she receives the maximum sentence of "Life in Prison without Parole". Desperate to beat the rap, Cindy agrees to become a ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, sex comedy
Plot:
female fight, women's prison, prison, female nudity, sex scene, women in prison, fight club, female wrestler, female protagonist, prostitute, female boxer, boxing ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Hairdresser Suus ends up in jail after attempting to murder her husband.
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, tense
Plot:
women's prison, prison, female prisoner, human spirit, jailed, prison life, jail cell, prison sentence, jail, penal colony, women in prison, colony ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
Style:
sexy, humorous, clever, offbeat, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, strong female character, prison life, prison, lesbian relationship, sapphic, lesbian interest, women's prison, women in prison, lesbian love, lesbian romance ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york state, idaho, usa, new york
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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
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three women are sent by steamboat to an undisclosed jungle prison called "The Home of Lost Souls". Here they experience the usual beatings, whippings, cat fights and humiliations. The butch warden has a deal on the side with a local pimp ...
Style:
suspense, rough, suspenseful, brutal, sadistic ...
Plot:
women in prison, female prisoner, sexploitation, voyeurism, women's prison, voyeur, sadist, sadistic violence, torture device, sadism, violence, prison ...
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story:
A drama anthology that serves up a raw slice of real life in Modern Britain.
Style:
anthology, psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
trauma, problem, social problems, social misfits, life is a bitch, social issues, crime victim, victim, multiple storylines, criminal, society, empathy ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
independent film, sexploitation film
Plot:
women in prison, women's prison, female prisoner, female killer, topless woman, tough girl, female assassin, female protagonist, revenge, court, gangster, kickboxing ...
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