Womens Prison Movies

A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.

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

The holiday in Turkey with husband Philip and their three children ends fatally for Sabine Winter: Customs finds heroin in her bag.

Penguins Behind Bars is an Adult Swim special, adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Janet Perlman, that aired only once on July 20th 200...

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

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

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 short-l...

A juvenile reform prison hires a psychologist, Dr. Essmat, to help in the reformation and rehabilitation of the girls in the prison. As he studies the...

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

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

Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just...

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

Women are beaten, raped, tortured and killed in brutal prison.

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 lived...

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