From Wentworth to Intergalactic, these are the best shows and movies that feature women surviving prison!

For 80 years, women-in-prison (or WIP) movies have been a suppurating subgenre of the usually all-male prison melodrama. Sometimes ennobling, often lurid, they depict women as fighters, lovers and ...

Asia Society screens Manijeh Hekmat's Women's Prison (2002) as the inaugural film in its Women of Iran film series.

As pulp and crime magazines grew in popularity in the 1940s, the women-in-prison genre became a recognizable trope with films like 1950’s Caged and So Young, So Bad.

All of these films generally share a similar formula: put good-looking women in a prison, some have lesbian sex, some fight, and eventually they revolt and escape.

But it’s not just Kimmy Schmidt and Fury Road that center on women breaking out of prison. In fact, 2015 was chock-full of movies and TV shows about female escapees.

Stream 'Violence in a Women's Prison (1984)' and watch online. Discover streaming options, rental services, and purchase links for this movie on Moviefone. Watch at home and immerse yourself in ...

Last week, we introduced a "Top Five Films" list from Madcap Theaters director Andrea Beasley-Brown, a.k.a. the Midnite Movie Mamacita. While her first list focused on the five most disgusting ...

Women’s Prison Famously "banned" for more than a year by Iranian authorities who even forbid its screening to foreigners at the Fajr Film Festival in Teheran last February, Manijeh Hekmat's ...

Producer Roger Corman's women-in-prison exploitation movies filmed in the Philippines during the early 1970s have received little academic attention, despite renewed audience interest in recent years.

Thousands of female political prisoners were tortured and forced to perform labor at the Women’s Prison at Hoheneck.