Women Behind Bars

Women Behind Bars

WELCOME to prison, Ladies..!

1975 · 75 min · ★ 4.4 · Thriller, Crime

A small-time hood brings the attention of the law with an insurance scam and diamond theft, but things become even more interesting when his moll murders him and is slammed behind bars where she faces all manner of electric shock treatments to various parts of her anatomy

Directed by Jesús Franco · Written by Marius Lesoeur

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