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Dance with a Stranger

Dance with a Stranger

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossi...

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Double Jeopardy

Double Jeopardy

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Framed for the murder of her husband, Libby Parsons survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her -- finding her son and solving the mystery that destroyed her once-happy l...

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Brokedown Palace

Brokedown Palace

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten...

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Born Innocent

Born Innocent

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 6.2

A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her p...

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Jackson County Jail

Jackson County Jail

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1976 IMDB Rating: 6.1

A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.

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Down by Love

Down by Love

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 5.9

A man, a woman. A prison director, his inmate. An impossible love, a true story.

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The Big Bird Cage

The Big Bird Cage

Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 5.9

Women rebel against slave labor in a filthy jungle prison where they feed sugar cane to a mechanical maw.

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The Big Doll House

The Big Doll House

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1971 IMDB Rating: 5.8

Female prisoners in a Phillippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women--along with the help of two men--plot an escape.

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Last Dance

Last Dance

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1996 IMDB Rating: 5.7

Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background...

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Scrubbers

Scrubbers

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 5.6

Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.

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