Stranger Inside is a made-for-television crime drama film directed by Cheryl Dunye that premiered on cable television in 2001.

In a 2004 issue of Feminist Studies, Dunye stated that she worked with actual female inmates to produce the script.

[1] Treasure Lee (Yolonda Ross) learns that her biological mother Brownie (Davenia McFadden) is incarcerated in an adult prison, so she purposely gets into trouble in order to be transferred from a juvenile facility to an adult women's facility in order to meet her.

She meets new inmates, such as Leisha (Medusa), an aspiring rapper, and Doodle (Ella Joyce), a religious, homophobic woman who is involved with a male correctional officer.

Treasure is playing cards with Leisha and Shadow when she begins flirting with an inmate named Sugar (Patrice Fisher).

Kit (Rain Phoenix), Brownie's main daughter, chides the woman for not meeting her in the chapel for their usual sexual relations.

However, when Brownie eats food made by Treasure's new Asian cellmate (Emily Kuroda), she proposes that the new inmate should live near her.

Brownie tries to persuade Treasure that she needs to kill Kit, who now associates with a female neo-Nazi gang.

As the two women leave their huddle, Kit approaches Brownie and puts a shank deep in her neck.

She offers to transfer Treasure if she will admit that Brownie and a male correctional officer have been working together to bring drugs to inmates.

It won the Audience Award and Special mention at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival.