Women S Prison Movies

Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (working under the pseudonym “Sally Stubblefield”) tells a rough-edged tale of life inside a 1950s...

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

An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.

A parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is...

Holloway — once the largest women's prison in Europe, now abandoned. Six ex-inmates revisit, recounting experiences, giving voice to...

A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.

Based on the custody case involving Elizabeth Morgan and the subsequent Elizabeth Morgan Act.

This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she...

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 film recounts the life of the prisoners and the problems their families encounter in their struggle to survive. Here again filmmaker Kamran...

In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied...

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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