Efter att ha krönts till Frankrikes drottning vid 16 års ålder och blivit änka vid 18, vägrar Mary att gifta om sig. Istället återvänder hon till hemlandet Skottland för att återta tronen. Men Skottland och England styrs nu med järnhand av Elizabeth I. ”Systrarna” betraktar varandra med fasa och fascination. Som rivaler både i kärlek och makt, och som kvinnliga regenter i en patriarkal värld, måste de bestämma hur de vill spela spelet om giftermål kontra självständighet. Fast besluten att härska som mer än bara en galjonsfigur försöker Mary återta tronen och hotar därmed Elizabeths överhöghet. Svek, uppror och konspirationer inom det egna hovet äventyrar dem båda och historiens gång förändras för alltid.

En dag insjuknar den 15-årige pojken Michael Berg på väg till skolan och räddas av den runt 30-åriga Hanna. De förälskar sig oväntat och inleder en passionerad affär fram till den dagen Hanna plötsligt och utan förklaring försvinner. Åtta år senare är Michael en ung juridikstuderande som iakttar de pågående krigsförbrytarrättegångarna mot nazisterna. Han träffar sin forna älskarinna igen, under väldigt annorlunda omständigheter. Hanna står anklagad för ett fruktansvärt brott och vägrar rätten till försvar. Michael inser gradvis att hans ungdomskärlek döljer en hemlighet som hon anser vara mer skamlig än mord.

When a Russian doctor (Patrizia Gori) falls foul of the Nazis, she finds herself imprisoned at Fort Stilberg, a luxury brothel for German top brass where the women are overseen by sadistic SS officer Helga Hortz (Jacqueline Laurent). The doctor's medical skills bring her to the attention of Nazi Lieutenant Erik Mueller (Jack Taylor), who saves the lovely lady from becoming one of the establishment's 'hostesses' by assigning her to the infirmary.

Two female Army agents go undercover at a Nazi prison camp to get information from a scientist being held there.

Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) är en småtråkig Los Angeles-advokat, som inte kan glömma sin ex-fru. Han försöker ändå gå vidare, och på en chatt faller han för en ung, blond, kvinnlig advokat. När Peter bjuder hem henne får han sitt livs chock - hon är definitivt inte blond, än mindre advokat. Hon heter Charlene (Queen Latifah) och är stor, högljudd och har rymt från fängelset! Charlene påstår visserligen att hon är oskyldig och vill ha Peters hjälp att bli rentvådd. När Peter vägrar börjar Charlene steg för steg förvandla Peters välordnade tillvaro till ett kaos. Ett enda stort kaos.

In a remote village in occupied Europe, the SS pursue their inhuman treatment of captured partisans in efforts to force them to betray their comrades.... while Fraulein Krast, a sadistic biologist, concentrates her efforts on the womenfolk with refined tortures and humiliation, leaving them to the mercy of a sex-crazed half-man, half-beast she has created with experimental injections.... And as advancing Allied forces approach the village, Krast herself becomes a victim of her own fiendish rituals....

Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways.

In 1932, a prisoner escapes from a women's prison in northern China. Inspector Song Donglu is summoned to investigate the escape.

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

Three siblings ingeniously avoid being sent off to a children's home while their solo-mother serves a short sentence in a prison for shoplifting. Rather than have the news leak out and have to be escorted off with the eccentric welfare officer, they invent a 'never present' dad who is looking after them.

In a women's prison in Brazil, the inmates are young and beautiful, the warden is a sadist, all but one of the guards are cruel, and the nurse is an incompetent cuckoo. To make it difficult for the inmates to hide contraband, they wear no underwear. They are alternately murderous and orgiastic with each other, and they engage in sex play with some of the guards. The warden pimps out inmates to wealthy lesbians. With the help of the nurse and under the cover of Carnival, three inmates stage an escape. Once out, will they contrive to stay undiscovered, or will their natures guarantee an ill-fated end to their attempt?

Valerie watches over her cousin's place while he's away for six months. She spends her first night there reading, playing records, and calling her girlfriend Sophie over. That night, members of a crazed sex cult break in and mistakenly kidnap Sophie. Valerie's cousin, a member of this cult, has some incriminating photos and the leader wants to ruin his life. Valerie and Sophie's friend Fred go to the cult's mansion stronghold to stop all this madness.

Anna learns in prison that her mother has passed away in Seattle. Prison officials grants Anna a three day furlough to attend her mother's funeral. Anna embarks on a long trip to Seattle. Hoon is a Korean immigrant who works as a gigolo. Hoon is now on the run from a wealthy client's furious husband. These two seemingly lost souls are about to share three memorable days together.

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

Depicts the rebellion that takes place when villains with different desires enter the Jungae Prison, where female inmates gather.

During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.

En ung kvinna går med i ett hemligt spelnätverk där spelen handlar om smärtuthållighet i hopp om att vinna en prissumma av en miljon dollar. Dessvärre upptäcker hon ganska snart att hela spelet är riggat av en fruktansvärd sadistisk psykopat. Ju längre in i spelet hon kommer desto brutalare och ren tortyr får hon uthärda från motspelaren, som systematiskt manipulerar spelarmetoderna i syfte av att inte låta henne på något att vinna.

A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she was judged for in 1927.

When 6 strangers are left in the woods to fend for their lives, there's one enemy they weren't expecting.

In Jail House, Blackie has concocted a perfect escape plan. Then wardress 5354 is killed by accident when making love. She becomes the bad ghost, in contrast to the good ghost who dies in a previous escape attempt. Finally, the chief warden, the interior decorators, Blackie and the good ghost come to an agreement. They would get the chief warden's girl friend, the exorcist, to banish the bad ghost. To leave quietly too are Blackie and the good ghost...