Drama
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Sweet Sugar
Red Dust
The Vicious Kind
Alias Nick Beal
Blonde
Tilt
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Mother
Angel's Flight
Born Innocent
On the Doll
The Effect of Love
Sebastian
Queen Bee's Revenge
Asha Black
Walkabout
Set Me Free
Shadow Dancer
International Prostitution: Brigade criminelle
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
SIMILAR MOVIES
Sweet Sugar
IMDB 4.2 | Jun , 1972
A young woman nabbed in a drug bust chooses to work on a sugarcane plantation with other convicts instead of going to jail.Red Dust
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 1932
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.The Vicious Kind
IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 2009
A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.Alias Nick Beal
IMDB 6.7 | Mar , 1949
After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.Blonde
IMDB 5.9 | Sep , 2022
From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.Tilt
IMDB 5 | Apr , 1979
Tilt is the story of a precocious young girl who is a pinball wizard. Because she does not get on with her parents, Tilt is contemplating running away from home. Skipping school one day, she decides to go to to Mickey's Bar. Mickey, who is Tilt's good friend, helps her set up a gambler for a pinball game. Because the gambler is unaware of Tilt's pinball wizardry, he is easily hustled out of his money. While watching the confrontation, a young man named Neil Gallagher, who is an aspiring musician, is impressed with Tilt's ability, congratulating her after the win. Neil invites Tilt to watch him sing at a rock concert, and after his performance she believes he can become a great singer. Because Neil needs money for a demo tape of his songs, he has an idea of taking Tilt with him and having her hustle would-be gamblers.The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 2004
Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.Mother
IMDB 7.7 | May , 2009
A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.Angel's Flight
IMDB 4.3 | Jan , 1965
A series of murders involving a stripper are investigated by a hard-drinking reporter.Born Innocent
IMDB 6.3 | Jan , 1976
A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one care worker sees her potential to rise above her tragic circumstances.On the Doll
IMDB 4.9 | Oct , 2007
A lurid, dark look into the lives of sex workers, where victims of child abuse deal with the consequences later in life.The Effect of Love
IMDB 4.7 | Aug , 2007
Mabel lives on a slum. Does work as a clown at children's parties and as a prostitute. At 20 crosses paths with Martin, a lawyer just shy of 40. He has divorced his wife and left the law firm he was working on. Buys a trailer and goes to live in it. Advertising for a car wash dressed as a bird he meets Mabel and they fell in love. Later she finds out she's living with HIV. From that moment on, Martin's love will help Mabel fight her battles with death.Sebastian
IMDB 6.4 | Aug , 2024
Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write, finally seems within reach.Queen Bee's Revenge
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1981
A woman seeks revenge against the people responsible for her sister's death.Asha Black
IMDB 5 | Oct , 2014
Five people get murdered in Malaysia and the cop who investigates the crime finds out that they have a common Facebook friend — Asha Black. Meanwhile, a young man from India comes to the country to meet Asha, after she befriends him on Facebook.Walkabout
IMDB 7.3 | Jul , 1971
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.Set Me Free
IMDB 5.8 | Feb , 1999
A coming-of-age tale centered on Hannah, a young girl who is living a troubled family life. Set in 1963, Hannah develops a fascination with Jean-Luc Godard's then-recent film "Vivre sa vie". As she begins to model herself after the film's lead role, Hannah slowly begins to explore the confusing nature of her sexuality.Shadow Dancer
IMDB 1.3 | Jan , 1995
An unhinged woman is dangerously jealous of her ex-boyfriend's new lover. For April, performing stripping telegrams for private bachelor parties is just a way to pay the rent. To Nick, however, taking it off at bachelorette parties is more of an adventure - but Nick's promiscuity leads him down a path of destruction once he meets up with Christy, a voluptuously beautiful flight attendant. Murder. Kidnapping. When love turns to obsession, a man is capable of anything.International Prostitution: Brigade criminelle
IMDB 2.8 | Jun , 1980
A French police inspector with the help of Tazzi, a woman involved in a prostitution ring, track down the man who murdered Tazzi's sister.Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 1998
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.