Women S Prison Movies

A young man comes out of a reform school properly reformed, but life outside will bring him to the underworld again. His second reform will be...

Having been sentenced to death for murdering their husbands or boyfriends several women from all walks of life are transported to a notorious island...

The soulless atmosphere of a women's penitentiary destroys the prisoners' personality, kills all femininity in them. The film looks at the...

A prisoner's wife joins him on an island where a killer satellite and shark-infested waters keep inmates in check.

Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of...

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...

Women's Prison recounts the life of the prisoners and the problems their families encounter in their struggle to survive. Here again filmmaker Kamran...

This film confronts the culture of violence surrounding trans women of color. It is told through the voices of Laverne Cox and Cece McDonald.

3 inmates at a women prison camp are planning a daring escape.

Trevor McDonald goes to Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana to speak with some of the women that live there.

Based on the true story of a beauty pageant held inside El Buen Pastor, a women’s maximum-security prison in Bogotá, Colombia.

A short documentary from 1975 about two women serving 25 years in a Missouri penitentiary. Made with an all-female crew.

Ashley Smith was a troubled 19-year-old when she choked herself to death at Ontario's Grand Valley Institution for Women. Her death made national...

The final months of pregnancy and the first ones after the birth of a baby are unique experiences in a woman's life. And when this daily life is...

In Paradisum relates two disturbing stories simultaneously. The female narrator tells her personal tale of imprisonment as the wife of the notorious...

Maryam Henderson-Uloho spent thirteen years in prison in Louisiana, seven in solitary confinement. After her release she struggled to find housing or...

Libertad, Enriqueta, Maricarmen and Albert evoke the years when their mothers and his aunt stayed in Les Corts jail, times of innocence, hopelessness...

A documentary exploring a crime that shocked Germany in the summer of 1999.