Womens Prison Movies

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 th...

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

Women are beaten, raped, tortured and killed in brutal prison.

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 tr...

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

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

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 lived...

A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.

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

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

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

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.