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Action, Sexploitation Film, action film, blaxploitation film, prison film, sexploitation film, women in prison film
Brought to a women's prison in a tropical country, Lee Daniels (Pam Grier) and Karen Brent (Margaret Markov), a prostitute and a revolutionary respectively, butt heads and cause enough trouble to warrant a transfer to a maximum-security pr…
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Drama, drama film, romance film, teen film
After being released from prison after six years, ex-convict Brett Hanson becomes lost in a new and unfamiliar world of freedoms and responsibilities. Struggling to reconcile himself with his disastrous past, he embarks on a journey to his…
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Horror, Sexploitation Film, Thriller, Torture Porn, exploitation film, horror film, women in prison film
The film opens during a night-time thunderstorm when a frightened, confused and disheveled young woman, Anne-Marie, runs down a country road and is picked up by a trucker. We see through flashbacks how the young woman came to be in such a …
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, drama film, sexploitation film, women in prison film
Carol "Jeff" Jeffries is set up by her boyfriend, Rudy. Jeff does not realize that Rudy runs a ship-board prostitution, gambling, and drug dealing empire. Rudy sees the heat closing in on him and stashes his illegal goods in Jeff's purse.
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Dance Film, drama film
17-year-old Maria Ramirez (Kat Graham) returns from juvie to rebuild her life with nothing but a talent for street dance and a burning ambition to prove herself. She finds refuge in the place that made her feel most alive, as a kid at the …
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Destiny, Drama, Romance Film, Social Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, prison film, romance film
thumb|left|thumbtime=15|The Big House (1930) Kent (Robert Montgomery), a drunk driver who carelessly kills a man, is sentenced to ten years for manslaughter. In an overcrowded prison designed for 1800 and actually holding 3000, he is place…
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Action, Adventure, Horror, sexploitation film, women in prison film
Dyanne Thorne reprises her role as the title character, but in this installment, Ilsa, referred to as "Comrade Colonel," oversees a 1953 Siberian gulag that mentally and physically breaks down male political prisoners in the waning days of…
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Drama, drama film
In the winter of 1946, in Leningrad, a group of German prisoners of war are sent to a female transit camp by the cruel Russian Colonel Pavlov. When they arrive, the Russian female soldiers show hostility to the prisoners on the grounds tha…
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War Film, spy film, war film
By late 1944, as the Allies march toward the Rhine, it is obvious that Germany will lose the war. American Colonel Devlin leads a military intelligence unit that enlists German POWs to cross into German territory and spy on their former co…
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action film
Agent John Keller goes undercover into the tough prison known as Fuego Penal to find out about the corpses of prisoners disappearing without a trace. There he gets involved in a dangerous tournament, the Kumite, arranged by a man named Jus…
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Action, Military Film, Political Drama, Political Thriller, Thriller, political thriller, war film
An Arab is captured in the desert after attacking U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, and then tortured and brutalized in a secret detention center. He finds himself transported to Poland, along with other prisoners.
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Komödie, comedy film, drama film, prison film
When Colin Briggs, a convicted murderer, is placed in the experimental H.M.P. Edgefield programme to finish off his prison sentence, all he wants is peace and quiet. After his wise, elderly roommate Fergus (a recovering alcoholic imprisone…
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Exploitation Film, action film, exploitation film, prison film
Blossom, a buxom bad girl, is the rough-and-ready girlfriend of a radical guerrilla leader, Django. She keeps her relationship a secret, but is also quick to start a fight without knowing it. However, when Django's mercenary friends itch f…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, psychological thriller, teen film
This film is the story of a group of unruly teenagers whose parents send them to rehabilitation boot camp to turn them around. The camp collects each child individually, and then delivers them to the boot camp facility owned by Dr. Arthur …
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Drama, Justice Drama, Sport, War Film, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
A stevedore in Thessaloniki, Greece, Salamo Arouch's passion is boxing. Captured along with his family and fiancée Allegra in 1943 and interned in Auschwitz, Arouch is used by his SS captors as entertainment, forced to box against fellow p…
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Drama, drama film, prison film
Short Eyes is set in an unnamed prison in New York City, whose inmates are predominantly African American or Puerto Rican. One day, Clark Davis, a young, middle-class white man accused of raping a young girl, arrives on remand. His fellow …
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Western, Western film, drama film, prison film
The Man Who Came Back is loosely based on the Thibodaux massacre. This was the culmination of the largest strike in the sugar cane industry, when 10,000 workers stopped labor, and the first to be conducted by a formal labor organization, t…
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film
Eli Wurman is an aging, burnt-out Jewish publicist whose best days are behind him, and he wishes to retire from his line of work, but all he knows is how to hustle, cajole, threaten and persuade. The hazy mania of his everyday life is fuel…
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Crime, Forensic
In 1944, in Lincoln Bluff, a fictional, small Colorado town, the Second World War is still raging when the town's only doctor, George Hansen, is murdered at local US Army Camp Bremen, which holds German prisoners of war. Harmon Cobb, a loc…
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Drama, action film, disaster film, drama film, prison film
As a passenger ship sails by the bleak ruins of a deserted island, Dr. Kersaint blows his former home a kiss. When a fellow passenger asks him about the place, he tells its tragic story, segueing into a flashback.
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Drama, horror film
The film takes place in 1822 in Tasmania and is loosely based on a true story. A group of transported convicts, suffering brutal treatment at the Macquarie Harbour penal settlement on Van Diemens Land, as Tasmania was then known (until 185…
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Social Drama, drama film, splatter film, war film
Frankie Dunlan, an American soldier in the Vietnam War, runs alone through the jungle. As his voice narrates, he reveals that he "goes back there every night" before waking up in his rundown New York apartment, next to his wife Cathy and t…
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Romance Film, drama film, prison film, romance film
Julie is a cynical working girl in a café in a town near Devil's Island (French Guiana) penal colony. While on a work shift just after being released from 30 days in solitary confinement, prisoner André Verne sees her on the wharf. She is …
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Drama, drama film, prison film
The film is presented through several flashbacks as the three inmates are being interviewed in regards to the apparent suicide of their 4th cellmate, Mitch Palmer, who has hanged himself. It is gradually revealed throughout the interviews …
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