Best Women's Prison Movies & TV Series

Looking for the best women's prison movies and TV series? These 65 are the highest-rated on 3eyedraven, weighted by vote count so a handful of glowing reviews never beats a proven favourite.

Wentworth 2013 ★ 8.0

Orange Is the New Black 2013 ★ 7.6

Lady Vengeance 2005 ★ 7.5

The Reader 2008 ★ 7.5

ClaireBell 2025 ★ 8.3

The Edge of Heaven 2007 ★ 7.2

Gloria 2014 ★ 7.4

Bad Boys for Life 2020 ★ 7.1

Vera Drake 2004 ★ 7.2

The Jail: The Women's Hell 2006 ★ 7.6

The Next Three Days 2010 ★ 7.1

The Yard 2018 ★ 7.5

Harmony 2010 ★ 7.6

White Oleander 2002 ★ 7.0

Prisoner 1979 ★ 7.6

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion 1972 ★ 7.0

Caged 1950 ★ 7.1

Hell in the City 1959 ★ 7.4

Death Proof 2007 ★ 6.8

Four Minutes 2006 ★ 6.8

Yield to the Night 1956 ★ 6.9

The Convict 2021 ★ 6.8

Double Jeopardy 1999 ★ 6.6

Jailbirds 2019 ★ 6.7