Movies like Black Mama, White Mama (1973)
The best movies like Black Mama, White Mama (1973) are Women in Cages (1971), The Big Doll House (1971) and Caged Heat (1974). If Black Mama, White Mama 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 424 votes
- NewestVendetta (1986)Released 1986
Women 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 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 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 thisFoxy Brown (1974)
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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
Coffy (1973)
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVendetta (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
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 thisSweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisFriday Foster (1975)
Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChained Heat (1983)
After killing a man in a drunk driving accident, a young woman is sent to a prison where both the inmates and the corrupt leadership are violent and abusive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisJackson County Jail (1976)
A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & 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
Drum (1976)
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
A trio of thrill-seeking go-go dancers kidnap a young girl and attempt to seduce an old rancher and his two sons out of their small fortune, but their scheme doesn't play out as intended.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlack Snake (1973)
On a 19th century Caribbean island, slaves revolt against their beautiful and sadistic mistress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Women 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 this'Gator Bait (1974)
Desirée lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. After an accident involving Deputy Billy and a friend, the Sheriff, Deputy and a family of locals go after Desirée. Soon the hunters become the hunted as she exacts her revenge for their violence against her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Handgun (1983)
Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
The Lady in Red (1979)
A farm girl's life turns upside down after she moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
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
Truck Turner (1974)
Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPenitentiary (1979)
A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Ms .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 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 thisBig 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 thisHollywood Boulevard (1976)
A Midwestern ingenue arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes in low budget B-movie fare, which starts being plagued by strange, deadly accidents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisZero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)
Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich politician's daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang. Agent Zero is let out of prison with the mission of going undercover to find the politician's daughter and return her safely. Using her deadly red handcuffs, she disposes of the criminals one by one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFemale Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Black Mama, White Mama?
The closest matches to Black Mama, White Mama are Women in Cages (1971), The Big Doll House (1971) and Caged Heat (1974). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Black Mama, White Mama?
People who watched Black Mama, White Mama most often go on to Women in Cages (1971), The Big Doll House (1971) and Caged Heat (1974).
What is the highest-rated movie like Black Mama, White Mama?
Ms .45 (1981), rated 6.7/10 by 424 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Black Mama, White Mama?
Vendetta (1986) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Black Mama, White Mama?
Yes: Women in Cages (1971), The Big Doll House (1971) and Caged Heat (1974).
How are movies similar to Black Mama, White Mama chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Black Mama, White Mama, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.