Drama
At 13 years old, Sona was sold from Nepal into forced-prostitution in India. She’s not the only one—an estimated 12,000 children are trafficked out of Nepal every year. The Twelve Thousand is a dramatic short film depicting the true story of one trafficked survivor.
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Sold
High Road to China
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Risky Business
I-21
Antibodies
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Kanak Attack
IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 2000
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2024
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IMDB 7.8 | Aug , 2024
A Mexican teenager whose dreams of becoming a soccer star are disrupted when his mother dies. He's smuggled across the border with the promise of a better life but is instead sold to a sweatshop in downtown LA.White Sun
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 2016
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IMDB 6 | Apr , 2017
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IMDB 5.2 | Oct , 2019
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IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 2016
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IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 2016
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IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 2011
After selling herself at fourteen to a brothel inside her home town of Svay Pak, Mien takes an undesired path all over Cambodia for the remainder of her teenage life. At twenty, her path crosses with a group of people fighting to make a difference, bringing her long and onerous journey back to face where it all began. The Pink Room is an intertwined story of the heart-rending, epic battle to end sex slavery, from rescue to prevention, and experiencing first hand, the need to change not just individuals, but the communities they come from. Most documentaries on trafficking only bring awareness to the problem. This film bring awareness to the solutions.Seaburners
IMDB 5.3 | Feb , 2014
Denise, a botanist, is working in the swamps in a part of Turkey, planting and researching local flora. In her evenings she sometimes meets with her lover Hamit, a simple man at first glance. But he is making his living with human trafficking which he keeps a secret from Denise. When Hamit learns that Denise is being sent back to her home country soon, one final trafficking job takes a dark outcome.Blind Trust
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2021
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IMDB 5.8 | Mar , 2016
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IMDB 6.5 | Apr , 2016
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IMDB 5.8 | Mar , 1983
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IMDB 5.5 | Nov , 2007
Two souls arrive in a small town, one on vacation, the other to meet a lover. They spend the most magical dream-like days of their lives in that town... with each other.Lola
IMDB 7 | Aug , 1981
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.Frozen River
IMDB 6.7 | Mar , 2008
Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom, is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray's Dodge Spirit.Risky Business
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 1983
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.I-21
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2024
After the disappearance of some of their close friends on their 21st birthday, overly determined Isa/Isaac is left to pick up the pieces of the tragedy, fueled by their misdirected motivation. Years later, lost, misguided, and frustrated, Isa/Isaac is about to call it quits. But not before the lead, they've been looking for comes knocking at her door. "I-21" is intended to have dual casting and two movie versions released, highlighting how targets of human trafficking are not isolated to one gender.Antibodies
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 2005
When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken his tight-knit community.