HALFWAY HOUSE (2005)

directed by Kenneth J. Hall

cast ; Tracy Keijser

THE HANDMAID 'S TALE (1990)

directed by Volker Schlöndorff

Set in a Fascistic future America, The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of Kate, a handmaid. In this America, the religious right has taken over and gone hog-wild. Kate is a criminal, guilty of the crime of trying to escape from the US, and is sentenced to become a Handmaid. The job of a Handmaid is to bear the children of the man to whom she is assigned. After ruthless group training by Serena Joy in the proper way to behave, Kate is assigned as Handmaid to the Commander. Kate is attracted to Nick, the Commander's chauffeur. At the same time, a resistance movement begins to challenge the regime.

HANNA D. -La ragazza del Vondel Park (1984)  a.k.a. A 16 ans dans l'enfer d'Amterdam a.k.a. Hanna D.:The Girl from Vondel Park

Inspired by success of "Christiane F," chronicles German girl's downward spiral through drink, drugs, pimps etc.  Whilst Hanna is on remand, another inmate graphically recovers drugs from her rectum, presumably a cinematic first. 

HANNAH'S WAR (1988)
directed by Menahem Golen
Hungarian WIP

This film tells the story of Hannah Senesh, a young Hungarian Jew, trained in Israel by the British, who parachutes into Eastern Europe to fight the forces of Nazism. Her mission is to rescue English fliers, but she also manages to save a trainload of Hungarian Jews before being caught and imprisoned. She chooses to die rather than to submit to tyranny.

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HARD WOMEN (1975)  aka Perrak; Inspektor Perrak Greift   
directed by: Alfred Vohrer
cast: Horst Tappert, Erika Pluhar, Werner Peters, Judy Winter
 

HELGA SHE WOLF OF SPILBERG (1977-France) a.k.a. Camp pour femmes a.k.a. Helga the leather mistress   a.k.a. Confessions of the Sex Slaves  a.k.a. Bloody Camp a.k.a. la calda bestia di spilberg  a.k.a.  Helga, la louve de Spilberg

directed by: Alain Payet a.k.a. Alain Garnier
cast: Malissa Longo, Patrizia Gori, Claude Joanna, Dominque Aveline

Euro-Ciné cash-in on Don Edmonds Ilsa-movies!!!

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HELL BEHIND BARS (1983)  a.k.a. Girls In Hell a.k.a. Condemned to Hell  a.k.a. Perverse Oltre Le Sbarre
directed by Willy Regent (a.k.a. Sergio Garrone)
cast: Ajita Wilson, Linda Jones, Rita Silva, Alex Frayberger, Bella Olivia

  A woman's prison is run by a sadistic female warden. Ajita Wilson is imprisoned and plans an escape with her inmates. The escapees are suffocated after being nailed inside a coffin; electrocuted; knifed; drowned, etc..

HELLBLOCK 13 (1997)
Directed by Paul Talbot
cast: Debbie Rochon, Gunnar Hanson

Debbie Rochon plays a serial killer on death row who tells three horror stories to her executioner.

HELLHOLE (1985)

Directed by Pierre De Moro
cast: Mary Wornov, Judy Landers, Ray Sharkey, Edy Williams

Asylum film has Mary Wornov as the lesbian assistant to a Mad Doctors experiments. A kooky psycho breaks into the asylum (sic) to extract info from Judy Landers who plays the lead basket case. One  shower scene,  mud, a nude catfight and a Dyanne "ILSA" Thornne cameo.
 

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HELLHOLE (1983)   a.k.a. Escape From Hellhole  a.k.a Les revoltees de l'enfer
Directed by Maman Firmanstan or Maman Firmansyah
Cast: Gudhay Sinatra, Dicky Zulkarnaen, Siska Widoaty

This Indonesian WIP entry covers most of the cliches (catfights, whippings, firehose splashdowns) but leaves out the lesbian wardens and gratuitous nudity (even though there is a shower scene). There's also a bizarre trippy dance sequence halfway through the movie (scored with cheesy synthesizer music) which ends in a gory suicide attempt.

HELL PENITENTIARY (1983)   a.k.a. Inferno dietro le sbarre  a.k.a. Detenute Violente  a.k.a. Sévices à la Prison de Femmes  a.k.a. Captive Women 8
Directed by Willie Regent ( a.k.a. Sergio Garrone)
cast: Ajita Wilson, Rita Silva, Linda Jones, Alex Fraybegger

Following on from that tradition of economy he made two women in prison films back to back in 1983, Hell behind bars with this film, Hell penitentiary.No time is wasted in getting the first sex scene on the screen. This is followed by a woman being framed with the possession of cocaine. Her friends that are on their way to help her are crushed in their car by a road digger and she is carted off to prison. One of the other inmates is played by Ajita Wilson, who has been in so many women in prison films that she's probably spent more time behind bars than the Yorkshire ripper!  

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HOLOCAUST 2 (1978) a.k.a.Holocaust parte seconda - I ricordi, i deliri, la vendetta
Directed by John Jonathan (Angelo Pannacciò)

cast: William Berger, Tina Aumont, Elzabeth Thulin

Forty years have passed since the brutal atrocities were committed by the Nazis in the concentration camps during World War 2. But the memories of the horrible murders live on, as do many of the Nazis who are now hiding around the world. A secret group of Jewish activists band together and locate many of the doctors and solders and take vengeance upon these sadistic killers.

THE HOT BOX (1972)
 
Written by Jonathan Demme & Joe Viola.
Directed by: Joe Viola
cast: Margaret Markov, Andrea Cagan, Rick Richardson, Laurie Rose

Viola directed this tale of four nurses who are thrown in jail for aiding some rebels that actually kidnapped them. They get naked, side with the rebels, and bust out. Not bad.

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HOTEL PARADISE (1979) a.k.a.  Hotel Paradiso  a.k.a. Orinoco - Prison of Sex a.k.a. Orinoco - Sexual Paradise a.k.a les evadees du camp d'amour
Directed by Edoardo Mulgaria -  Inserted footage by Nicholas Beardsly
cast: Ajita Wilson, Antonnio De Teffe ,Christina Lai,Luciano Pigozzi,

US version called Escape from Hell & Savage Island has inserted footage.

At a female prison located deep within the deadly South American jungles, a group of woman are forced to mine for valuable emeralds for the local corrupt government. A group of new prisoners on the way to the jail are ambushed and are convinced to join a group of revolutionaries seeking g to overthrow the prison guards and take the treasure of jewels for themselves. 
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HOUSE OF 1,000 WOMEN (1944) a.k.a. 2000 women

Directed by Frank Launder

When the German Army occupied France during WWII. all British women in the conquered areas were placed in an international camp until theiwar's end. House of 1000 Women tells the tale of a group of scrappy English ladies who give their patriotic best keeping their Nazi guards distracted from the war effort! Filled with sexual innuendo, voyeuristic bath tub scenes and cat fighting females, this inside peek at a women's prison camp is one of the more unusual films made during World War II. A rare cult film favorite that is not to be missed!

HOUSE OF LOST WOMEN (1970) a.k.a. House of the lost doll a.k.a. La Maison des Filles Perdues

Directed by Peter Knight (Pierre Chevalier)

cast : Silvia Solar, Evelyn Stewart, Olivier Mathot

Eurocine patchwork WIPesque opus; Girls are being kidnapped and sent to work in a brothel where they receive less than ideal treatment.Includes old footage starring Jack Taylor.

HOUSE OF INSANE WOMEN (1974) a.k.a. Exorcism's Daughter  a.k.a. Las meancolicas

Directed by Rafael Morena Alba

cast ; Helga Liné and Francisco Rabal

This engrossing shocker set in a Spanish mental asylum focuses on a psychiatrist who discovers that his patient's mental problem stems from witnessing his mother being exorcised when he was younger. (Filmed before "The Exorcist," it was released later to capitalize on the success of the big-budget film)

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HOUSE OF WHIPCORD (1974)  a.k.a. Flagellations
Directed by Peter Walker.
cast: Anne Michele, Barbara Markham, Patrick Barr, Ray Brooks

Cult director Pete Walker's disturbingly effective horror film belongs to the "private prison" subgenre, in which insane sadists abduct typically female innocents and torture them for sport. In this case, however, the mad Mrs. Wakehurst (Barbara Markham) and her senile husband, Judge Desmond (Patrick Barr), are running an entire covert penal institution for sinful women, complete with a pair of similarly dotty guards (Sheila Keith and Dorothy Gordon). Using her clueless son (Robert Tayman), who poses as a man named "Mark E. DeSade," as bait, Mrs. Wakehurst lures women whom she considers evil into her huge institutional home. Once captured, they are put in cells, beaten, and murdered for even the slightest infraction.

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HOUSE OF WOMEN (1962)
Directed by Walter Doniger and Crane Wilbur.
cast: Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford, Barbara Nichols
  An inferior remake of the 1950 women's prison classic CAGED, HOUSE OF WOMEN stars Knight as an innocent, very pregnant woman convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to five years imprisonment. Once her baby is born, Knight is allowed to keep the child, but if Knight has not been paroled after three years, the child will be put up for adoption. The jail's sadistic warden, Duggan, takes a liking to Knight and makes her his maid. Because of his deepening love for Knight, Duggan even begins to treat the other inmates better. Three years pass quickly, and it appears certain that model prisoner Knight will be paroled and allowed to keep her child. However, Duggan is so distraught at the thought of losing Knight that he prevents her parole and denies all prison mothers custody of their babies, prompting a bloody uprising by the inmates.

 

HUMAN EXPERIMENTS (1979)   a.k.a. Beyond the Gate   a.k.a. Women In Prison
Directed by Gregory Goodell
cast: Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Aldo Ray, Mercedes Shirley

Woman gets wrongfully convicted of a cool looking murder, and has to deal with cruel psychological experiments.The poor young victims are transformed into hideous mutations. Not much nudity or typical jailhouse antics. The only highlight is a vermin sequence. Very dull.
 

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HUNCHBACK OF SOHO (1966) a.k.a. Bucklige von Soho

Directed by Alfred Vohrer
cast: Günther Stoll, Monika Peitsch

Terrifying things are happening around the grounds of an old castle, within which is a boarding house for delinquent girls. Things get nutty when some of the girls die mysteriously. A hunchback killer is on the loose! Scotland Yard is called. More murders occur, the screams of the victims being silenced by the sound of a church organ.