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Bare Behind Bars

Original title: A Prisão
  • 1980
  • X
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
4.4/10
1.1K
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Bare Behind Bars (1980)
Prison DramaTrue CrimeCrimeDrama

In a prison, women rebel against the guards' sadism and sexual abuse and decide to run away. Some manage to escape and are chased by the Police.In a prison, women rebel against the guards' sadism and sexual abuse and decide to run away. Some manage to escape and are chased by the Police.In a prison, women rebel against the guards' sadism and sexual abuse and decide to run away. Some manage to escape and are chased by the Police.

  • Director
    • Oswaldo de Oliveira
  • Writer
    • Oswaldo de Oliveira
  • Stars
    • Maria Stella Splendore
    • Neide Ribeiro
    • Márcia Fraga
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.4/10
    1.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Oswaldo de Oliveira
    • Writer
      • Oswaldo de Oliveira
    • Stars
      • Maria Stella Splendore
      • Neide Ribeiro
      • Márcia Fraga
    • 27User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Maria Stella Splendore
    • Sylvia - The Prison Warden
    Neide Ribeiro
    • Sandra - The Assistant Warden
    Márcia Fraga
      Danielle Ferrite
      • Cynthia - Prisoner #341
      Marta Anderson
      • Barbara - The Insane Nurse
      Serafim Gonzalez
      Serafim Gonzalez
        Meiry Vieira
        • The Regular Customer
        Sonia Regina
        Marliane Gomes
        Nadia Destro
        Marly Palauro
        • Atores Coadjuvantes
        • (as Marli Palauro)
        Fátima Celebrini
        • Atores Coadjuvantes
        • (as Fatima Celebrini)
        Virgínia Gil
        • Atores Coadjuvantes
        Neide Carvalho
        • Atores Coadjuvantes
        Sandra Carnezin
        • Atores Coadjuvantes
        Iolanda Silva
        • Atores Coadjuvantes
        • (as Yolanda Silva)
        Orlando Parolini
        • Atores Coadjuvantes
        Felipe di Nardo
        • Atores Coadjuvantes
        • Director
          • Oswaldo de Oliveira
        • Writer
          • Oswaldo de Oliveira
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        User reviews27

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        DJ Inferno

        A joyride for WIP-lovers!

        If you are a fan of endless lesbian orgies this film may be exactly the right stuff for you: see naked chicks having sex in their prison cells, under the shower, with the female attendants... here and there even some short hardcore sequences are brought on. There are some quite tame torture scenes and a subplot about the trade with female slaves, which is not further developed..!

        "Bare behind bars" is probably the best WIP (stands for "Women-In-Prison")-flick ever made, because it doesn´t take itself too serious and it´s often full of unconscious humor! The best scenes has this weird Marilyn Monroe-like nurse, who uses an ananas as her dildo and exploits the female prisoners as their sex-bunnies.

        If you want to know why this film is banned in countries like the U.K. or Germany check out the last third, which is the grossest part of this movie! Three outlaws are able to escape and on their run they murder a family, just for drinks and food. The climax of this crime is when one of the girls castrates the dead husband and feeds the cut off dick to his pesky barking dog..! Another castration-scene is featured some minutes later... However, there´s no happy ending for the girls: two of them return to prison, the third one becomes a prostitute and gets shot by her pimp..!

        "Bare behind bars" belongs to those movies you may need a shower after watching it. Nevertheless it can be pretty entertaining if you have a sense for such films. If you like WIP-flicks try to find Jess Franco´s "Sadomania", too!!
        tdh71

        A very interesting movie but a twisted plot

        Bare is one of those definitive 80's Brazillian prison movies that really makes you squirm to watch it. The movie revolves around a crooked prison run b y the equally crooked Sylvia,and her straight counterpart,Sandra,who works to put an end to the trachery. An incompetent and sex-crazed nurse stirs the plot,what littl there is of it. Overall,the movie is just sex all around and eventually leads to a great breakout into the streets of Brazil,where the refugee women continue their lives of violence by raping a young boy,killing his parents,and committing numerous sexual murders throughout the city. A young woman who is beat with a whip by Sylvia(Towanda Neal)adds to the dark and twisted plot.Generally,this film was hard to watch and is full to the brim with graphic nudity and sex. All hardcore sex film fans will love this one! Happy viewing!
        5The_Void

        Women's prisons in Brazil are sleazier than most!

        Well I've got to say that I do enjoy a good slice of sleaze; but I also like there to be some sort of narrative to keep my interest, and this film lacks that; which leaves it feeling rather shallow and pointless. As the title suggests, Bare Behind Bars is another one of those 'women in prison' films, and the fact that it hails from Brazil means that you can certainly count on gratuitous sex and nudity, which this film features in droves. There's all sorts of stuff going on, from lesbian sex to the use of dildo's and other implements, and everyone in the prison gets involved; from the prisoners to the guards and everyone in-between. The only slight hint of plot revolves around a prison break, which happens towards the end. There's a fair amount of violence to go with the sex and general sleaze, which includes certain male body parts being removed and, on one occasion, being fed to the family dog! However, while this film has everything you could want in terms of sleaze; the lack of any plot at all really does harm it. Obviously this is not a genre that is well known for great stories, but this film is shallow even by genre standards; and while I'm not an expert on sleazy women in prison flicks - Jess Franco has certainly done better.
        5BA_Harrison

        Bored Behind Bars

        In a Brazilian prison for women, where the inmates are subjected to physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis, four girls make a bid for freedom. Aided by the prison's ether-sniffing nurse, the group successfully escape and go on a killing spree.

        From the word go, Oswaldo de Oliveira's sleazy WIP movie delivers wall-to-wall scenes of nudity and lesbianism: nearly every female in his film's joint-including the guards, prisoners and even the sexy warden, are lesbians. The ones that aren't are bisexual! This means that viewers can expect a whole shedload of nekkid babes in ill-fitting outfits indulging in all sorts of sexy shenanigans, including oral-sex, mutual masturbation, and strap-on action.

        What starts off as a softcore film with simulated sex gradually becomes stronger and stronger in content, until the director gives up all pretences and goes the whole hog, with a couple of (rather crap) hardcore couplings. As well as upping the strength of the sex, de Oliveira also makes the film a whole lot more violent and sleazy in the final half an hour, with the escaped prisoners indulging in a little killing before going their separate ways. In one scene, an entire family is savagely attacked by the girls; the mother and father are shot, the father has his severed penis fed to a barking dog, and then the wanton women proceed to 'rape' the under-aged son!

        Now I realise that this sounds like the mother of all exploitation films and an unmissable treat for those who dig more 'unusual' cinematic fare, but, to be honest, it's all rather boring. After a couple of lesbian scenes, the film becomes a blur of boobs, bums and beaver and one soon longs for something remotely resembling a decent plot.

        The occasional prison torture scene and a second brutal emasculation help to break up the tedium of endless frottage, but are not enough to make me recommend this ultimately disappointing film.
        5Cinemayo

        Bare Behind Bars (1980) **

        Do you enjoy violent, sleazy, sexy "Women In Prison" films? If so, then this one shouldn't disappoint, but it's not something just anybody can sit through. There's a lot of t&a and all sorts of depravity on display here, straight out of Brazil. Lesbian prison guards make out with the lady prisoners, perform cavity searches in their most private of areas, etc...

        It's not very well directed (though fans may ask "so what?") and it doesn't always make a hell of a lot of sense. But there are a couple of disturbing sequences to be on the lookout for in scenes where a few female inmates escape and run wild in the streets - one of these involves castrating a man, and even a sicker display has the girls raping a pre-teenaged boy in his home as he moans "why? why?" (he may well find out in a few more years). ** out of ****

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        • Trivia
          Danielle Ferrite's debut.
        • Quotes

          Barbara - the insane nurse: I just adore raspberry pudding.

        • Alternate versions
          A projected UK video release on the Redemption label, featuring an edited print, was rejected by the BBFC in 1994, and an appeal proved unsuccessful. It was finally passed for DVD release in 2010 after 1 min 35 secs of cuts to remove closeup shots of fellatio and dildo sex.
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          Featured in Triple X Selects: The Best of Lezsploitation (2007)

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        • Release date
          • December 2, 2010 (United Kingdom)
        • Country of origin
          • Brazil
        • Language
          • Portuguese
        • Also known as
          • Desnuda Tras las Rejas
        • Filming locations
          • Brazil
        • Production companies
          • Ao Lixao Comercio de Moveis Ltda.
          • Galante Filmes
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        • Runtime
          1 hour 27 minutes
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        • Aspect ratio
          • 1.66 : 1

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