swap_horiz Women's Prison Alternatives

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The Prisoner (1955)

*The Prisoner* is a 1955 British psychological drama film directed by Peter Glenville and starring Alec Guinness and Jac...

Drama Political 1950S Interrogation

7.6 Good

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The Criminal Code

The Criminal Code is a pre-Code American drama film released in 1931, directed by Howard Hawks and distributed by Columb...

Classic Drama Crime 1930S

7.5 Good

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Two Seconds

Two Seconds is a 1932 Warner Bros. pre-Code drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Edward G. Robinson as a condemned m...

Classic Drama 1930S Pre Code

7.4 Good

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The Last Mile

The Last Mile is a 1932 American pre-Code prison drama film directed by Samuel Bischoff, based on the 1929 Broadway play...

Classic Drama Crime 1930S

7.1 Good

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20,000 Years in Sing Sing

20,000 Years in Sing Sing is a 1932 American pre-Code prison drama directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Spencer Tracy...

Classic Drama 1930S Sing Sing

6.9 Fair

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Castle on the Hudson

Castle on the Hudson is a 1940 American prison drama directed by Anatole Litvak and starring John Garfield. It is a rema...

Classic Drama 1940S Sing Sing

6.6 Fair

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Hell's Highway

Hell's Highway is a 1932 American pre-Code drama directed by Rowland Brown and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film...

Classic Drama 1930S Chain Gang

6.4 Fair

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So Young So Bad

So Young So Bad is a 1950 American drama directed by Bernard Vorhaus, starring Paul Henreid as a progressive psychiatris...

Drama Youth 1950S Reform

6.4 Fair

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Convicted

Convicted is a 1950 Columbia Pictures crime drama directed by Henry Levin. Glenn Ford plays a man who is wrongfully sent...

Drama Crime Noir 1950S

6.2 Fair

10

Prison Without Bars

Prison Without Bars is a 1938 British drama directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Set in a French girls' reformatory, it exam...

Drama British 1930S Women In Prison

6.2 Fair

11

Ladies of the Big House

Ladies of the Big House is a 1931 Paramount drama directed by Marion Gering, starring Sylvia Sidney as a woman unjustly...

Classic Drama 1930S Pre Code

6.1 Fair

12

Blackwell's Island

Blackwell's Island is a 1939 American crime drama directed by William C. McGann and released by Warner Bros. John Garfie...

Classic Drama Crime 1930S

6.1 Fair

13

Born Innocent

1974 NBC television movie starring Linda Blair as a teenager sent to a violent juvenile detention facility, whose depict...

Drama Youth 1970S TV Film

6.1 Fair

14

Chain Gang

Chain Gang is a 1950 Lew Landers prison drama starring Douglas Kennedy as a reporter working undercover to expose corrup...

Classic Drama 1950S Chain Gang

5.9 Mediocre

15

The Steel Cage

The Steel Cage is a 1954 prison film noir directed by Walter Doniger, built as three San Quentin stories involving Warde...

Classic Drama Anthology 1950S

5.8 Mediocre

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Condemned Women

Condemned Women is a 1938 RKO drama directed by Lew Landers, starring Sally Eilers as a prisoner who falls in love with...

Classic Drama 1930S Women In Prison

5.4 Mediocre

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Reform School Girl

Reform School Girl is a 1957 American International Pictures exploitation film directed by Edward Bernds, about an innoc...

Drama Youth Exploitation 1950S

5.2 Mediocre

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Betrayed Women

Betrayed Women is a 1955 Allied Artists women-in-prison film directed by Edward L. Cahn, depicting the brutal treatment...

Classic Drama 1950S Women In Prison

4.8 Poor

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Girls in Prison

Girls in Prison is a 1956 low-budget American International Pictures exploitation film directed by Edward L. Cahn, follo...

Classic Drama 1950S Women In Prison

4.7 Poor

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Girls on the Loose

Girls on the Loose is a 1958 Universal-International crime film directed by Paul Henreid, following an all-female gang o...

Drama Crime Exploitation 1950S

4.6 Poor