A Prisà£o [1980]

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A Prisà£o (1980)
Behind Bars No One Can Hear You Scream!

Rating: 4.3

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Genre: Crime (Drama)

Length: 1 h 35 min - 95 min

Video: 680x480 (29.970 Fps - 2 248 Kbps)

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In a women's prison in Brazil, the inmates are young and beautiful, the warden is a sadist, all but one of the guards are cruel, and the nurse is an incompetent cuckoo. To make it difficult for the inmates to hide contraband, they wear no underwear. They are alternately murderous and orgiastic with each other, and they engage in sex play with some of the guards. The warden pimps out inmates to wealthy lesbians. With the help of the nurse and under the cover of Carnival, three inmates stage an escape. Once out, will they contrive to stay undiscovered, or will their natures guarantee an ill-fated end to their attempt? Written by

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John Mclaren from London, England
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This has been called the "Mother of all WIP" flicks. In a sense I can see why. It has all the essential ingredients of the genre- in abundance if not excess.

Wall to wall nudity (indeed being nude is the default dress code), shower scenes, some (tame) torture, lesbianism (indeed no men really), and a so-called moral ending.

Trouble is that it is so atrociously compiled by De Oliveira, the director, that all sense of the erotic is lost. Jess Franco so much does it better. The scenes flit from one to the next with little or no continuity of plot, sexual encounters are chucked in for no good reason, plot lines start and then run into the sand.....Well- whatever.. And the women are not that cute either.

So sadly this flick flatters to deceive. You will probably watch it given its reputation- and emerge mildly disappointed like the rest of us. Brazil creates better football than WIP thrills..

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EVOL666 from St. John's Abortion Clinic
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With all the gore/sleaze/trash that I watch - I've honestly only watched a handful of WIP films. Much like the Nazisploit genre, I typically find them to be underwhelming and relatively tame for what could be an extremely exploitative concept. BARE BEHIND BARS is better than most, in the fact that the film is pretty much wall-to-wall sex-n'-sleaze. Still relatively "hollow", and it's definitely not reinventing the wheel storywise - but at least there's more boobs, butts, and bushes than you can shake a billy-stick at...

The premise of BBB is nothing new. Girls in prison (almost always nekkid) fighting, having lesbo sex, being whipped and "punished", etc...There's a barely-explored side-story of a slavery ring amongst the prisoners that never amounts to anything, and of course the obligatory escape attempt that turns sour...

As far as "plot" - that's pretty much all you get with this one. There are some highlights - the ether-huffing inept nurse steals the show whenever she's on-screen with her goofy antics. As far as sleaze-content, there are some explicit blow-jobs and even a brief hardcore sex scene at the end for those that count that as a "plus" (and of course I do...). The end of the film where the escape takes place amps things up a bit - as three of the prisoners escape, decide to party it up during Carnivale, and then break into a home and penectomize a man(then throw his severed dong to the family dog to get it to stop barking), shoot his wife, and molest his son (ungraphically of course - but still pretty sleazily). There's another forced-wiener-removal a few minutes later (where the amputated member is shoved into the amputee's mouth to shut him up), and then of course the moralistic ending where one of the escapees is killed and the two others end up back in jail. Overall, BARE BEHIND BARS is pretty hollow stuff even for this genre - but it turns up the sex quite a bit and throws in a healthy dose of violence at the end, and honestly - that's what we watch this crap for. More entertaining than most - rated against other such films - 8/10 from me...

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Le Froque
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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!!

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lazarillo from Denver, Colorado and Santiago, Chile
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This a Brazilian WIP film which means several things. First off, it's going to be more graphic than usual (actually crossing into hardcore in several places) if perhaps not quite as sick as some of the 1970's Jess Franco WIP films that were nominally set in South America. Second, while it does contain some reasonably attractive actresses, a lot of the others could be considered female "rough trade" (including a few that looked like they could been REAL prisoners). Third, it was obviously filmed in an actual Brazilian prison and, after the breakout, in actual Brazilian ghettos which gives it a squalid and depressing air (a ridiculous scene where all the prisoner take a VERY exuberant shower is actually kind of understandable--given the squalid conditions of the "set" the actresses probably really were that excited to get into a shower).

The main point of this movie is SEX--sex and more sex. Sex between the inmates, between the inmates and the warden or the prison nurse, solo sex scenes with the prisoners who are thrown into solitary confinement (buck naked, of course)--it's all here, one scene after another. And if you get tired of lesbian sex, after the traditional bust-out there's even more straight sex (you would think these woman would want to take a break from having sex, but no) with the kind of guys that make Ron Jeremy look trim and hairless. There's also a little unpleasantness like with one inmate in solitary who has befriended a dead rat (she doesn't have sex with at least), and another woman who suddenly makes like Lorena Bobbit after performing graphic oral sex on a very ugly guy.

What this movie really DOESN'T have though is a plot. Or real characters--I couldn't figure out WHO the protagonists are supposed to be. Like a hardcore porn film it is just a series of sex scenes thrown together with little or no connective tissue, and (speaking of tissue) while some of the women are attractive enough that I could certainly see some male viewers at home being motivated to "fire one off", I don't why even they would want to watch the rest of the movie. You really CAN have too much of a good thing sometimes, and this is a good example.

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squeezebox from United States
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With a title like BARE BEHIND BARS, I was expecting little more than a tawdry sleazefest with plenty of T&A. Well, BBB has plenty of that, as the title implies, and the first two-thirds of the movie is basically the relatively innocuous schlock I was anticipating.

But the final act has three of the female prisoners escaping and going on a rampage through the surrounding town, and their exploits get much nastier and more vile than I was mentally prepared to see.

Inside the prison, we get multiple cavity searches, shower scenes, shots of prisoners sitting on the filthy excuse for a toilet in their cell, catfights, medical exams and plenty of lesbian erotica. It's your standard WIP stuff, maybe a tad more tacky than usual.

But once in the free world, the trio of female prisoners attack a family in their home. After killing the father and mother, there is a rather alarming scene in which the women strip naked and sexually molest a pre-teen boy! Bet you've never seen anything like that in a Hollywood flick! The three women separate. One tries to move back in with her mother, another tries to start her life over again with a local guy, and the third seems content to continue torturing and killing people. In one scene, she is making out with a huge, hairy guy and suddenly gets the urge to castrate him with her trusty razor blade (which, now that she's escaped, no longer has to be stored up her rectum). It gives the castration scene in I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE a run for its money.

You'll have plenty of bare behinds, breasts and, well, everything in this movie. It chugs along at a swift pace and never gets boring, but the finale is shockingly gruesome and nasty, so be ready for that. It's no ILSA, but it certainly does deliver.

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eegah-3 (eegah@hotmail.com) from Minneapolis, MN
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This is a South American women-in-prison (WIP) flick without the narrative drive or camp value of American WIP films (BIG DOLL HOUSE, CHAINED HEAT) of the fever-dream delirium of European WIP films (BARBED WIRE DOLLS, HELLHOLE WOMEN). All the exploitable elements are in place but the excitement is missing as this film is top-heavy (pun intended) with girl/girl sex scenes. The actress who plays the warden looks just like Lisa Kudrow.

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Undead_Master
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This may be the worst Women in prison flick i've ever seen. The movie is wall to wall sex and after a while it stops being a Women in prison movie and just becomes a softcore (slightly hardcore) porno.

Now i don't necessarily object to softcore films, but when i watch a WIP movie, i have certain expectations. There are certain genre conventions that should probably be followed. Most of these films have a slightly teasing nature about the sex and most have much denser stories than this one. This is not a genre where plot is all that important, but the story here is weak even when you keep that in mind. There is no story at all. It's just a series of scenes with lots of nudity. The acting is terrible, the characters are all weak and predictable. There is very little humor... The film tries to be funny, but fails utterly. There is very little action, it just meanders from one sex scene to another. It's just pure drudgery once you get bored with all the sex and their's so much of it, that won't take very long.

The director of this film is one of the blandest i have ever seen. There is no sense of visual style, no atmosphere. All the lighting is flat, all the editing utterly conventional. There is nothing interesting about the camera work and most scenes play out in a boring, predictable fashion. The pacing is horrid... It's basically shot with less artistry than most porno films. It's lacks any sense of style at all.

As a softcore film, I suppose it succeeds to some degree but it's almost too mean spirited to be erotic.. As a WIP film, it lacks any pretension of underlying substance or plot, and the film doesn't benefit from the absence.

Watch "The Big Bird Cage" instead to see how these movies are supposed to be made. It's full of fun and interesting characters, has a much more substantial story and while there are fewer sex scenes and less nudity, what's there has a greater impact than anything "Bare behind bars" has to offer. Even a film like "Emmanuelle in prison" which is only a middling effort in the WIP genre, is still ten times better than this one.

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Spikeopath from United Kingdom
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OK! I'm being a touch too rude with my heading, but really this is absolutely awful film making. Some may try to tell us that it's fun and not meant to be taken seriously, yet how are you meant to take it? As an extraction of the urine? Some sort of caustic Brazillian piece that is misunderstood, that it's cunning in how it sends up the Women In Prison sub-genre of sexploitation?

Lets strip it down to its very basic fundamental appeal, that of a "film" that strings a number of lesbian sex scenes together every ten minutes or so in the hope of gaining a reputation from the horny hordes that this may be a picture well worth seeking out. Oh don't get me wrong, this is one prison populated by lady wardens straight out of my teenage fantasies. If I had seen this when I was 14 years old then this soft porn rubbish would have definitely held my undivided attention, but look at it with mature eyes and it's absolutely cringe worthy.

There comes a time when constant sex scenes become boring, especially when played out by bad actors who in turn are dubbed by women who usually voice advertisements for constipation medicine. There's a couple of scenes that might pass as an observation on sexual empowerment, and just maybe there's a wee thread that suggests you should think about the abuse of power in the world's correctional facilities? But really it's a cheap skin flick that wants its audience to do something other than think about the perils of prison... 1/10

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Neil Welch from United Kingdom
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It's amazing what you learn when you surf the movie channels late at night. From A Prisão (known as Bare Behind Bars where I come from) I learned that there is a women's prison in Brazil where all the inmates and prison staff are moderately young and attractive, with the exception of the cook, who isn't. I learned that although their mouths speak Portuguese, what comes out is hilariously bad dialogue with an American accent. I learned that the only clothing the prisoners have is a shift which buttons up so badly that you might as not wear it, so they don't, and the staff often take their uniforms off too - so as to make the prisoners less self-conscious, I'm guessing. I learned that the inmates and staff are aggressively vigorous and prodigious lesbians to the last soul, although they will happily embrace heterosexuality if a suitably greasy, sweaty, sleazy man gets within grabbable distance. And I learned that prison is so boring that having a hearty and soapy group bop in the shower is a darn good time for all concerned.

This preposterous prison "drama" is an astonishing offering for unencrypted UK TV. The first two thirds is, frankly hysterical, both metaphorically and literally. I don't think I have ever seen a film on TV which is so overflowing with full frontal nudity, not to mention vast quantities of (mostly lesbian) sex, not all of which, perhaps, is simulated. The prison sequences are also interspersed with a fair amount of sadism, some sexual and some not so, but all of which is so lurid and overstated as to be laughable. As a straight drama, or even as sexploitation, it is almost unwatchable: as comedy, it is bearable.

Then we hit the last third, which beats Hamlet for body count and tragedy, and which isn't really funny on any level.

Oh, and don't expect anything approaching decent acting. Nudity yes, acting no.

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Kaare Jensen from Denmark
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The biggest surprise about this movie, is the fact it was not made by Jess Franco. This is infact a brazilian movie, and a standard women in prison one as well. Three bad girls are thrown in jail. Naturally, they are submitted to all kind of degredations. They escape, and are captured again. Even though they are the heroes of this movie, justice must be done, and the girls are thrown back behind bars. This "twist" is the only thing slightly surprising about the movie. The copy I have seen, contains several brief hardcore sexscenes, that seems to have been left in the movie by mistake. The scenes are, however, performed by the leads themselves, leading to the conclution, that this movie (like many Jess Franco movies that it resembles) also excists somewhere as a hardcore movie. The movie also, unwisely, combines humour and torturescenes. A bad movie alltogether. For WIP completeists only.

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Canada:18+ (Quebec) / Finland:K-18 / UK:(Banned) / UK:18 (cut) (2010 DVD) / USA:X / West Germany:(Banned)