Barbed Wire Dolls
★ 4.7 · 1976 · 81m · Crime · Drama · Horror
Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.
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