Pam Grier and Sid Haig stole the show in Jack Hill's Filipino-women-in-prison hit The Big Doll House, and they pretty much power this superior action-packed semi-sequel as a South American Bonnie-and-Clyde team. The revolutionaries with mercenary hearts decide to liberate the inmates of a jungle women's prison at the urging of their lonely army of single men. All the conventions are ...

Manufacturer: New Concorde
Starring: Pam Grier, Anitra Ford, Candice Roman, Teda Bracci, Carol Speed
Directed By: Jack Hill

The first of many in a series depicting the harrowing prison existence of a convict who uses his wits and fists to survive. Leon Isaac Kennedy's character is thrown deep into the bowels of the prison system, where the only consistent truth is kill or be killed. To show his strength and gain respect from the other inmates, Kennedy must distinguish himself as a boxer, taking on all comers to save ...

Manufacturer: Xenon
Starring: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Thommy Pollard, Hazel Spears, Donovan Womack, Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman
Directed By: Jamaa Fanaka

Manufacturer: New Concorde
Starring: Jewel Shepard, Pamella D'Pella, Susan Harvey, Chanel Akiko Hirai, Ed Crick
Directed By: Cirio H. Santiago

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland, Randy Quaid, Sheree North
Directed By: Tom Gries

"A genre all by herself" (Voice), Pam Grier tacklesand shacklesher sleekest role yet as the feistier half of a pair of women in chains and on the run in this "colorful, outrageous and truly exciting" action flick (The Hollywood Reporter)! Grier is Lee Daniels, a prostitute doing hard time in an island prison camp for women where the guards have a new way to punish inmates who fight: by cuffing ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Pam Grier; Margaret Markov
Directed By: Eddie Romero

In the future, crime is out of control and New York City is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables. Kurt Russell put his Disney days behind him as the ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Tom Atkins, Adrienne Barbeau, Joel Bennett, Garrett Bergfeld, Ernest Borgnine

Manufacturer: Lions Gate/Republic Ent.
Starring: Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé, Ray Anthony, Margaret Hayes, Paul Anka
Directed By: Charles F. Haas

Fifteen years after John Carpenter squandered a great idea on a mediocre movie (Escape from New York), he does it again--this time on the Left Coast. Kurt Russell is back as the terminally cynical one-eyed action hero Snake Plissken who, this time, has been coerced into saving the world in Los Angeles. It's 2013 and L.A. is now an island maximum security prison off the coast of California. ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, A.J. Langer, Georges Corraface
Directed By: John Carpenter