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Plot Summary:
Sonia, a girl from St Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is suddenly kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. She will be dragged from country to country and resistance will only bring her misery and humiliation.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Russia, France, Portugal
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, queer cinema
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The Mutants (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Mutants (Portuguese: Os mutantes) is a 1998 Portuguese film by director Teresa Villaverde, starring Ana Moreira and Alexandre Pinto. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: bleak
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Hope Lost (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Romanian girl dreams of living the glamorous life she sees in Italian soap operas.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, sexy
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Web Cam Girls (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Alex Hiles' hot mess cousin Carolyn vanishes, Alex suspects the worst...Carolyn has been "camming" lately, and Alex suspects she broke the rules and met one of her clients...No one believes her and it's now up to Alex to track and face the predator that kidnaps Cam Girls.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Thirty Years of Adonis (2017)
Plot Summary:
Yang Ke, a Beijing Opera actor, is fatefully driven into the underworld of masculine sex workers, and becomes a class of his own. He finds himself on a roller coaster between heavenly love with both men and women, and a living hell ensnared by devious villains and hypocrites. Despite his faith, endeavor and willingness to give, he remains a prisoner to his karma. Hell awaits when heaven seems near, and the ultimate truth is revealed only in a heartbreaking moment from which there is no return.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, touching, suspense, erotic, art film, weird, queer cinema
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Cargo (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, form an unlikely bond that transforms them and threatens to derail the traffickers' plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Dog Days (2016)
Plot Summary:
Endless dog days of summer weigh heavily on the impoverished suburb of Changsha where a young mother, Lulu, works as a dancer in a cheap nightclub. Coming home late one night, she discovers that her boyfriend Bai Long has disappeared with their baby. Her desperate search takes her to a transvestite bar where gay man Sunny is performing; he knows the whereabouts of the child’s father. A deal is struck between the odd couple whose lives are now fatefully intertwined.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Bliss (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, affectionate
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Transfixed (2001)
Plot Summary:
Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's infuatuated with a neighbor and suspected by the police in a series of transexual murders. In order to clear herself she must turn detective.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending, realistic, gloomy
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Hotel Coppelia (2021)
Plot Summary:
1965, Dominican Republic. At a seaside brothel, the lives of a group of prostitutes take a dramatic turn when freedom fighters stage a revolutionary coup, making them realise they can have a better life and perhaps find love. But everything changes when the US army supresses the revolution and takes the brothel as a military base: the girls will have to face the dilemma of either sleeping with the enemy or protecting their dignity at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Big Dream (2009)
Plot Summary:
Italian Revolution, 1968. Police officer, Nicolas, wants to become an actor. He goes out in plain clothes and meets Laura who is among students against the government, Vietnam War and who seek sexual freedom. One day, his identity gets exposed and she leaves him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, tense, suspense, touching, contemplative, hot
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Guilt (2022)
Plot Summary:
After being sexually assaulted by an acquainted and incapable of dealing with the situation, a woman leaves her whole life behind and hides herself away in an isolated cabin in the mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Minor Freedoms (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Greek highlands, the story presents a violent, domineering man who deals in the trafficking of emigrants and young, Balkan prostitutes. Addicted to drugs and mentally unstable, the man's teenage daughter Fanny succumbs to her father's violence and ends up working for him as a prostitute. The man also wishes to prostitute his young son, the immature Christos, who is dominated by his father's violence and engages in suicidal behavior. There is a special bond between brother and sister, who have only each other, yet no one admits this. Fanny falls apart day by day but the father maintains his reign as Christos, however, resists. "But in the kingdom of the father, the last word belongs to the king," according to the director.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, Denmark
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Little Feather (2016)
Plot Summary:
Martina is 18, loves dancing and goes by a nick name Shakira. Also, today she is leaving an orphanage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Òlòtūré (2019)
Plot Summary:
In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ruthless traders and pimps, Òlòtūré finds warmth and friendship with Blessing, Linda and Beauty, the prostitutes she lives with. However, she gets drawn into their lifestyle and finds it difficult to cope. In her quest to uncover the truth, she pays the ultimate price - one that takes her to the verge of no return.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Shanghai Belle (2011)
Plot Summary:
The destinies of five young women from all over the world intertwine in Paris as they embark on a roller-coaster ride of extremes in their search for love, sex and money. Based upon true stories, Shanghai Belle tells the destiny of five young women who all go through 'hell' to finally receive an unexpected redemption. Each of them states her intimate confessions through daily diaries. They experiment a journey on the 'edge'. The result of which is the loss of their innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Fortress of Sleeping Butterflies (2012)
Plot Summary:
Monika, a middle-aged wealthy woman, goes through a marriage crisis with her younger husband Linas. A car accident leads Monika to meeting three young girls, Kristina, Egle and Gitana, who happen to be ex-prostitutes extradited from Germany. The lady and the girls settle down in a country mansion, to form a relationship that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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On the Farm (2016)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal justice systems that allowed a wily psychopath to murder nearly 50 marginalised women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Buy Me (2018)
Plot Summary:
Buy me is the dramatic story about hunger for fame. Katya, a young girl from a good family, a student of philology is awarded a grant to study archives in Paris but instead of heading to Paris she travels to the Arab Emirates to start international modeling career….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, touching
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Emmanuelle 6 (1988)
Plot Summary:
Journey with Emmanuelle and the world's most excuisite models deep into the Amazon jungle to the heart of paradise. Beauty can be dangerous and the women soon find themselves captive to a powerful drug lord. Now they must escape from a land of darkness.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Priceless (2016)
Plot Summary:
James, down on his luck and desperate for some quick cash, agrees to drive a small truck across country. He soon realizes that he's made a huge mistake and has inadvertently become involved in a dangerous human trafficking ring. The unlikely hero risks it all to shut down the trafficking ring and save the woman he is falling in love with.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, touching, satanic, crime thriller, christian film, suspense, surprise ending, tension
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Looking for Her (2015)
Plot Summary:
Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, suspenseful
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Trafficked (2017)
Plot Summary:
In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to reclaim their freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: disturbing, realistic, rough, serious, crime drama
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Anniversary Nightmare (2019)
Plot Summary:
Liz and Andrew are on their anniversary trip in Hawaii when Liz wakes up to discover her husband missing and evidence of an invasion all around her. But with no witnesses, she's immediately labeled the prime suspect. Without any help from the system that failed her, Liz must solve the crime herself with the possibility that her husband may still be alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
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Apartment 407 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Selling Isobel, a thriller based on true events, featuring the real victim in true life playing the main charter. It's about a woman who got locked in, drugged, held against her will and sold to numerous men for 3 days in an apartment in central London. It's a film about her fight for survival all the way to the gruesome end.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, crime drama, independent film
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Spirits' Homecoming (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two Korean girls, Jung-Min (14) and Young-hee (15) are kidnapped by the Japanese Imperial Army and taken to a 'Comfort Station' in China. There, they join other kidnapped girls in serving Japanese soldiers as sexual slaves known as 'Comfort Women'. Decades later, an elderly lady attempts to reunite with the spirit of her lost friend. Inspired by the testimony of Kang Il-chul.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense
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Trafficked: A Parent's Worst Nightmare (2021)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of her 16th birthday, Allison Riley disappears. When the police refuse their requests, her parents, Joanna and Case, reluctantly hire John Belton, a private investigator with a reputation for questionable procedures and a dark past. Quickly, Belton realizes that Allison was coerced by a young handsome boy she met on social media and had been trafficked, and they are on a race against time to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing
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Angels of the Sun (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Northeastern of Brazil, the father of the twelve years old illiterate Maria sells his daughter to Tadeu to be employed as a housemaid and have a better life. However, the girl is resold to the farmer Lourenço that deflowers her, and he gives the abused girl to his teenager son to have his first sexual experience. Then she is sent to a brothel in a gold field in Amazonas and explored his owner, the despicable Saraiva. When Maria escapes to Rio de Janeiro expecting a better life, she is explored by the cáften Vera.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspense, disturbing
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Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (2005)
Plot Summary:
Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: touching, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, sensual, erotic
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Out of Hand (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sebastian and Paul are two bored boys about 16 years of age. They drink alcohol, steal - and attend a private school. They can't find a sense of meaning in their present adolescent existence. They abduct Sonja and lock her in an old, abandoned factory building. But what shall they do with her? Disorientation, fear, desire and also love are changing to cruel aggressivity.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, tense
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The Chosen Ones (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sofia, 14 years old, is in love with Ulises. Because of him, in spite of him, she is forced into a prostitution network in Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her. Adapted from Jorge Volpi’s novel, set in the world of juvenile prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, sexy