- Director
- Jesús Franco
- Year
- 1975
- Country
- France, Belgium
- Runtime
- 75 min
Also released as
- Des diamants pour l'enfer
- Diamonds of Kilimandjaro
- Hell Diamonds
- Frauengefängnis 3
Filed under
Women Behind Bars
Women Behind Bars is a 1975 French and Belgian horror film directed by Jesús Franco. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, later dropped without a successful prosecution.
Franco women-in-prison, made fast and cheap. On the list for the category rather than the content.
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Franco women-in-prison, made fast, and on the list for the category rather than for anything in it.
A woman is imprisoned on a tropical island for a killing, and the warden and a corrupt official want the money she is hiding. There is a governor's wife, there are guards, there is very little plot.
The cycle it belongs to was enormous in the 1970s and almost none of it is defensible on craft grounds. Franco made several a year alongside everything else.
There is no gore to speak of. It was listed because the DPP was working through video catalogues and this was in one.
Listed and dropped without prosecution, which is the correct outcome and does not make it worth ninety minutes.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · listed, then dropped
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The same film, sold as a different film in each territory. Click any of them.
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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