Movies like Chained Heat (1983)
The best movies like Chained Heat (1983) are The Big Doll House (1971), Prison Heat (1993) and Terminal Island (1973). If Chained Heat hooked you with its action and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMs .45 (1981)6.7/10 from 425 votes
- NewestCut Throat City (2020)Released 2020
The Big Doll House (1971)
Female prisoners in a Philippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women, along with the help of two men, plot an escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisPrison Heat (1993)
Four American babes on vacation in the Middle East run into trouble when they are imprisoned by corrupt army officials and that's where the fun begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Terminal Island (1973)
After the U.S. Supreme Court banishes the death penalty, California decides to exile all convicted murderers to the remote island of San Bruno, overseen by a tyrannical camp leader who forces all female inmates into sex slavery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWomen in Cages (1971)
Carol Jeffries is a naive American woman staying in the Philippines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Big Bird Cage (1972)
Women rebel against slave labor in a filthy jungle prison where they feed sugar cane to a mechanical maw.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisSavage Streets (1984)
Brenda, vivacious leader of the "Satins", a fun-loving group of pretty high school girls, searches for deadly vengeance against the gang members who assaulted her deaf-mute sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaged Heat (1974)
A young woman is convicted on drug offenses and sent to a women's penitentiary run by a repressed and oppressive female warden. When the prison's sadistic doctor begins conducting illegal "therapeutic" experiments on the inmates, the ladies plot their revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisPresídio de Mulheres Violentadas (1984)
Erotica/Wip/Brazil: Also known as "Le Porno Detenute" in Italy...Fans of the legendary Brazilian Women-in-Prison send-up will be instantly at home with this sexploitation masterpiece.Plot-Our heroine is wrongly set up for a heist by her boyfriend...she is found guilty sent to prison where living conditions are intolerable.Added to that all jail female staffs are lesbian by default trying to lay the poor inmates.The male staffs are also trying to sneak in their snake in some hole too...Hence the inmates rebel...enjoy!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Black Mama, White Mama (1973)
When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Naked Cage (1986)
A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Women Behind Bars (1975)
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
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Penitentiary II (1982)
An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Wedlock (1991)
A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisRaw Deal (1986)
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, he must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisReform School Girls (1986)
Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMs .45 (1981)
After being attacked and raped twice in one day, a timid, mute seamstress becomes a violent agent of revenge for wronged women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVice Squad (1982)
An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Abductors (1972)
Someone is stealing cheerleaders and other pretty girls and selling them to the highest bidder. Female super sexy spy Ginger is soon employed to investigate the disappearances. She does so by going undercover with a fellow agent and doing whatever is necessary to put an end to the operation and take down the leaders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Naked Vengeance (1985)
After witnessing her husband's brutal murder, Carla travels to her parents' home in a small mountain town to start over. When she's repeatedly harassed by redneck locals, Carla seeks help from the town sheriff but is met with indifference. This continues until Carla's finally attacked, raped, and her parents executed by the twisted townies. Carla, after escaping a mental hospital, resolves to get bloody revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Big Bad Mama (1974)
Circumstances force a mother and her two daughters to get into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country pursued by the law.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisMalibu High (1979)
When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug addiction and prostitution, and ultimately assassinations for a kingpin mob boss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Vendetta (1986)
A sexy stuntwoman gets herself thrown into prison to avenge the death of her sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Murphy's Law (1986)
A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWomen in Fury (1984)
The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in some Latin American country. In the prison she gets brutally "initiated" by the other inmates. The nice, honest and handsome prison doctor believe she's innocent and tries to help her out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Arena (1974)
Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus, follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who, upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring, mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Swinging Cheerleaders (1974)
In order to write an expose on how cheerleading demeans women, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Rise of the Footsoldier 3 (2017)
In the late 1980s, Pat Tate journeys from peddling pills in Marbella to his time in prison, where he solidifies his power before his release to reclaim his turf.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Rookie (1990)
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeath Wish II (1982)
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCut Throat City (2020)
Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist, right in the heart of the city.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & crime
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Chained Heat?
The closest matches to Chained Heat are The Big Doll House (1971), Prison Heat (1993) and Terminal Island (1973). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Chained Heat?
People who watched Chained Heat most often go on to The Big Doll House (1971), Prison Heat (1993) and Terminal Island (1973).
What is the highest-rated movie like Chained Heat?
Ms .45 (1981), rated 6.7/10 by 425 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Chained Heat?
Cut Throat City (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Chained Heat?
Yes: The Big Doll House (1971), Prison Heat (1993) and Terminal Island (1973).
How are movies similar to Chained Heat chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Chained Heat, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.