A daughter's quest for answers leads her into the brutal world of a women's prison.
WOMEN IN CELL BLOCK 7
What makes a nice girl die in a place like this?
A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life. A broken drug deal lands an innocent girl in the slammer where she endures all manner of humiliation at the hands of inmates and guards alike.
Quick Answer
Women in Cell Block 7 is a 1973 Italian-American crime drama film directed by Rino Di Silvestro about a young woman who gets herself incarcerated to find out the fate of her father, who is entangled in a drug trafficking scheme.
Programmer's Pick
If women’s prison sleaze, giallo intrigue, and bare-knuckle crime drama are your cinematic vices, Women in Cell Block 7 supplies them in spades. Rino Di Silvestro doesn't hold back on the nudity, the nudges, or the nastiness. Anita Strindberg and Jenny Tamburi are the beating heart of this exploitation staple.
— SassyFlix Programmer
Overview
Details & Specs
- Director
- Rino Di Silvestro
- Writers
- Rino Di Silvestro, Jack Lyons
- Release
- 1973
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Country
- Italy, United States of America
- Language
- Italian
- Also Known As
- Diario Segreto da una Carcel de Mujeres, Love and Death in a Women's Prison, Hell Prison, Love in a Woman's Prison, Original title: Diario segreto da un carcere femminile
Why This Matters
This film marks Rino Di Silvestro's directorial debut and is noted as the first Italian entry in the women-in-prison genre, signaling the start of Italy's contributions to this exploitation subgenre.
Cast & Crew
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Why Cult
The film immerses you in the gritty, backstabbing world of a corrupt women’s prison, with all the betrayals and alliances that genre fans crave.
Director Rino Di Silvestro blends crime drama with giallo-style sleaze, serving up nudity, violence, and suspense in equal measure.
Lilly’s dangerous mission to infiltrate prison for the sake of family loyalty fuels a narrative packed with double-crosses and mounting tension.
Female nudity, communal showers, and explicit scenes push exploitation to the fore, making the film infamous among genre collectors.
Scene Gallery
Threat File
Lilly gets incarcerated to find out about missing heroin
Drug traffickers and corrupt prison staff
Violence, intimidation, and terror within the prison
Women's prison
Questions from the Vault
When was Women in Cell Block 7 released? +
Women in Cell Block 7 was released in 1973.
Who directed Women in Cell Block 7? +
Women in Cell Block 7 was directed by Rino Di Silvestro.
How long is Women in Cell Block 7? +
Women in Cell Block 7 runs for 100 minutes.
What genre is Women in Cell Block 7? +
Women in Cell Block 7 is a crime and drama film.
