Women prison

A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose resid…

A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his child.

When a factory worker faces an impossible ultimatum—submit to sterilization or lose her job—she rallies her fellow workers to fight back against their employer's shocking demands, challenging a system tha…

The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced to fortress-like Lecumberri Prison where he endured brutal conditions. With the help of his wife, Barba…

When the justice system fails her, a determined woman embarks on a dangerous quest for revenge against the ruthless pimp she holds responsible for her sister's tragic suicide.

A recently-released convict attempts to do right but struggles to his wife and ailing daughter.

Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a b…

Three young travelers driving through the Deep South encounter corrupt police who frame them on false charges, subjecting them to a brutal ordeal of racial hatred and systematic abuse that exposes the dar…

Pamela Smart knows exactly what she wants and is willing to do anything to get it. She is fed up with teaching, and her marriage offers little excitement. Looking for a way out she applies for a job at a …

A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doc…

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed fo…

A young woman in the Army must make tough decisions when her love for an older woman causes her to question just where she is going. Adapted from Deb Shoval's 2011 short film of the same name.

Nellie Bly, a 23 year-old reporter for Joseph Pulitzer, goes undercover in the notorious Blackwell's Island women's insane asylum in order to expose corruption, abuse and murder.

Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known a…

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico, but a sleazy neighbor with designs on …

In "The World and the Woman", Jeanne Eagels plays Mary, a prostitute (which is implied by her walking the streets and being hassled by policemen) who reluctantly takes a better position at a country lodge…

The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.