18 movies

June 21, 2023

In einer dystopischen Schweiz, die unter die faschistische Herrschaft eines Käsemagnaten gefallen ist, lebt Heidi als einfache junge Frau in den Bergen. Ihr Großvater tut sein Bestes, um sie vor den schlechten Einflüssen der Welt zu schützen, doch schon bald entfacht ihre Sehnsucht nach persönlicher Freiheit eine Revolution. Aus dem naiven Bergmädchen wird eine wilde Kämpferin, die den Käsefaschisten das Handwerk legen muss.

Im Januar 1991 wurde in den USA Aileen Wuornos verhaftet, die sieben Menschen auf dem Gewissen hatte. Sie wurde zum Tode verurteilt und 2002 hingerichtet. Die Filmemacher, die am Tage vor der Hinrichtung noch mit der Mörderin redeten, erzählen die Geschichte einer psychisch schwer gestörten Frau und ihrer Taten, nehmen aber auch das amerikanische Justizsystem ins Visier.

Shinobu Himeno is arrested and thrown into Asahi Female Prison for being an unwilling accomplice in a jewelry store robbery. She’s to serve her sentence in the infamous Cell Block 21, a dismal area full of tough, sex-starved women. Himeno is bullied and abused by inmates and guards. After being framed for starting a fight, she is taken away and tied up. Can the shy Himeno ever escape this living hell?

In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of murders. Broomfield conducts interviews with Wuornos herself, and his crew films her trial as well as her interactions with religious fanatic Arlene Pralle, who gives Wuornos dubious advice and legally adopts her. The cameras also roll as the accused's attorney ignores the case at hand to negotiate a deal to sell his client's story.

Michelle (Shari Shattuck), wird fälschlicherweise für einen Banküberfall verurteilt den sie nicht begangen hat. Daraufhin landet sie in einem Gefängnis mit höchster Sicherheitsstufe und muss sich nicht nur gegenüber den anderen Insassinnen behaupten, sondern auch dem korrupten Gefängnisleiter die Stirn bieten, während sie zahlreiche Demütigungen erträgt. Haß und Intrigen, sexuelle Nötigung und Drogensucht – das Zuchthaus gleicht der Hölle. Die grausamen Zustände eskalieren in mörderischen Machtkämpfen. Überleben kann nur, wer da rauskommt …

Tomi Akiyama and her boyfriend Nakamura are troubled about allegations about a Comfort House in China. Tomi gets into the camp, first as a journalist, but is then captured and sent in as a participant. Nakamura is upset by this particular event, and the situation in general, and takes action. The progress of several other characters is followed, including a kind-of happy hooker, a jovial chubby Japanese woman and a brutal and rude general, laced with stock war footage and historical inter-titles.

November 1, 1976

Die Schwester einer Anführerin von Piraten, wird von einem brutalen Sklavenjäger entführt. Die Bandenchefin und eine Freundin beschließen, sich in das Dschungelcamp eines gewissen “Montero” einschleusen zu lassen, um die Lage und Bewachung der Sklavenhölle auszukundschaften. Im Camp angelangt, werden sie sofort Zeugen der unglaublichen Foltermethoden des brutalen Monteros. Er schaffte es immer wieder mit der Hilfe seiner Privatarmee, ausgebrochene Mädchen einzufangen, um sie dann an internationale Syndikate zu verkaufen. Kelly schwört diesem Mann blutige Rache.

June 15, 2018

An innocent college student must fight for her life inside a jungle prison with an evil wardress who uses voodoo experiments and a torture machine.

Melody hat versucht den "Gouverneur" kalt zu machen, der durch den Schock impotent geworden ist. Als sie im Knast sitzt, rächt sich der "Gouverneur" mittels seiner Freundin Candy, einer knallharten Aufseherin. Melody durchlebt die Hölle, geschlagen und gequält ersinnt sie einen brillanten Plan. Wird Melody und ihren Komplizinnen der Ausbruch gelingen?

Welcome to the Big House! It looks like any other prison, but this specialized penitentiary was designed from the ground up to hold Japan's most ruthless female inmates. That makes it doubly deadly, because while the guards may be brutal and sadistic, the inmates outnumber them by a hundred to one! At any second the final, fatal riot may erupt, stoking the flames of a thousand forbidden desires into an all-consuming inferno where it's every woman for herself! The shocking reality of Japan's secret prison system is exposed in Chain Gang Girls!

Berta (Tota Alba) has entered, once again, in prison accused of fraud. From the first moment she steps in the jail, she becomes the toy of all the veteran inmates. The number of conflicts in which she is immersed causes her to be transferred several times from penitentiary. In all of them will live some experience that will change her life; she will know love, hate, despair, etc.

November 30, 2001

A young woman is wrongly jailed. In prison she finds a completely different world made of women who seem to have found the formula for freedom.

January 30, 2022

This piece is inspired by the memoirs of Sepideh Gholian. A prisoner of conscience at 26 years old in Bushehr prison, Iran.

Two women end up in prison because of they fell for the same two timing con man. When they discover each other all hell breaks loose.

A female lawyer begins to suspect that lawlessness is going on in prison, and a female prisoner helps her.

May 1, 2011

Hot shot news reporter Aphrodite Jackson has been framed and sent to the big house. She must fight off sadistic prison guards, lesbian gangs, and the evil Warden Ash.

Japanese action film.

February 1, 1980

When an unworldly country man is released from prison setting out a new revenge, a night club singer crosses his path. He eagerly leads her to his lonesome country life out in woods, where there is no way back to society.

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