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...

Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.

Drama set at the end of World War Two in China. A young woman, fighting for the independence of her homeland is tortured for the whereabouts of the...

When Women Kill is a poignant documentary exploring the shocking violence that seven women fell victim to at the hands of men. The program profiles...

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

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...

The film follows a simple structure, and shows the drug-related degradation of five youths (Jake, Tracey, Jessica, Alice, Oreo) during the course of...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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