Women S Prison Movies

In an Edo-era women's prison, Ochiyo manages to escape execution during a fire and becomes determined to seek revenge against her harsh jailers.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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