Women S Prison Movies

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

Penguins Behind Bars is an Adult Swim special, adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Janet Perlman, that aired only once on July 20th...

This film confronts the culture of violence surrounding trans women of color. It is told through the voices of Laverne Cox and Cece McDonald.

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...

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...

After graduation, a young woman gets his first job in the women's prison in the province. The story follows her struggle to survive in a small town...

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...

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...