Womens Prison Movies

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

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...

Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just...

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

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

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

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

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 p...

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...

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

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

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