Red Heat is a 1985 women in prison film starring Linda Blair and Sylvia Kristel.

[2] Christine Carlson (Linda Blair), an American college student, travels to West Germany to visit her fiancé Mike (William Ostrander), who is serving in the US Army there.

She tries to convince him to marry her promptly, but he chooses to delay marriage in order to re-enlist.

She is transported to East Germany, where she is brutally interrogated by the Stasi, forced to admit to false charges of espionage, and thrown into a women's prison with the common criminals, including the gang leader Sofia (Sylvia Kristel), who is the prisoners' "top bitch" and has de facto control of the entire prison population.

Meanwhile, Mike is determined to free his beloved, and tries to get the US Army and the West German BND to help him.