Movies like The Big Doll House (1971)
The best movies like The Big Doll House (1971) are Women in Cages (1971), Caged Heat (1974) and The Naked Cage (1986). If The Big Doll House hooked you with its action and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPapillon (1973)7.8/10 from 2,231 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 & 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 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
The 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 & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTerminal 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 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
Short Eyes (1977)
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 drama
Chained 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 & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlack 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 & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWomen 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
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
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
Savage 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 & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNaked 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
Presídio 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
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 action
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisThe Longest Yard (1974)
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLolly-Madonna XXX (1973)
In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the Feathers and the Gutshalls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973)
In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Women's Prison (1955)
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at the hands of the administrators of the prison and the prison guards.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Billy Jack (1971)
A Euro-Indigenous American Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPapillon (1973)
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNew Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion (1976)
Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's sent to an all women prison where she's not exactly welcome. Her fellow inmates torture, humiliate and try to kill her; but the Scorpion prevails long enough to get some justice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Female 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
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisTurkey Shoot (1982)
In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul, one of the newest prisoners, is determined not to go down as quietly as the others.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Big Doll House?
The closest matches to The Big Doll House are Women in Cages (1971), Caged Heat (1974) and The Naked Cage (1986). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Big Doll House?
People who watched The Big Doll House most often go on to Women in Cages (1971), Caged Heat (1974) and The Naked Cage (1986).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Big Doll House?
Papillon (1973), rated 7.8/10 by 2,231 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Big Doll House?
Vendetta (1986) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Big Doll House?
Yes: Women in Cages (1971), Caged Heat (1974) and The Naked Cage (1986).
How are movies similar to The Big Doll House chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Big Doll House, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.