1917, gli ultimi mesi in cui la prostituzione è legale nel quartiere a luci rosse di New Orleans. Hattie lavora nell'elegante bordello di Madame Nell, e ha con sé la figlia dodicenne, Violet. Quest'ultima sarà affascinata dal fotografo Ernest J. Bellocq quando questi farà una serie di fotografie a sua madre. Intanto Nell mette all'asta la verginità della ragazzina, che Hattie, sposandosi e trasferendosi fuori città, abbandona.
New York: Travis Bickle, veterano del Vietnam in congedo, soffre d'insonnia e decide di impegnare le proprie notti facendo il tassista. Completamente disadattato ma idealista alla ricerca di uno scopo, l'uomo si invaghirà di una ragazza e le chiederà di uscire. Quando le cose tra i due andranno storte, Travis, definitivamente disilluso riguardo la società, si chiuderà in se stesso. Comincerà così per il tassista una claustrofobica discesa nel baratro della solitudine, in bilico sui margini della sanità mentale.
Nella California di metà Ottocento, nel pieno della corsa all'oro, la giovane Angel si aspetta solo il peggio dalla vita e da chi la circonda. Costretta a prostituirsi sin da bambina, prova odio nei confronti di se stessa e degli uomini che è costretta ad accontentare. Tuttavia, l'incontro con Michael Hosea, un contadino convinto che Dio vuole diventi sua moglie, cambia il corso del suo destino. Le circostanze la costringono ad accettare la proposta facendo sì che scopra presto che non c'è ferita che l'amore non possa guarire.
[SUB ITA] Un padre alcolizzato e implicato in una rete di pedofili, prostituisce il figlio più grande fin da bambino e risparmia il più piccolo. Aske, il maggiore, pur cercando di vivere una vita normale con amici e ragazze, scuola e feste, deve necessariamente continuare ad obbedire al padre per proteggere il fratello minore.
A teacher is sexually involved with an underage student. She visits her father's home and discovers a boy who's been kept as a sex slave. The teacher continues harboring the boy out of fear and begins to feel sexually attracted to him.
Japan’s obsession with cutesy culture has taken a dark turn, with schoolgirls now offering themselves for “walking dates” with adult men. Last year the US State Department, in its annual report on human trafficking, flagged so-called joshi-kosei osanpo dates (Japanese for “high school walking”) as fronts for commercial sex run by sophisticated criminal networks.
Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. Since Ledda starts showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, it's getting more and more difficult to complete his contracts. When he has to murder a 12-year old call-girl, he refuses and becomes a target himself. While Vincke and Verstuyft are chasing him and counting the corpses, Ledda is taking care of his employers.
Filmed in documentary style, Daughter is the story of four girls who face family problems and turn to heavy drug use in order to cope with their sad realities.
I figli delle prostitute nel quartiere a luci rosse di Calcutta, di fronte alla miseria piú nera, agli abusi e alla disperazione, hanno pochissime possibilità di sfuggire al loro destino per crearsi un'esistenza diversa. Zana Briski, fotografa professionista, regala ai bambini una macchina fotografica e impartisce lezioni, insegnando loro ad apprezzare la bellezza e la dignità della loro espressività, rendendo la fotografia un mezzo di emancipazione. In Born into Brothels, i registi Zana Briski e Ross Kauffman narrano l'incredibile trasformazione dei bambini che hanno conosciuto nel quartiere a luci rosse.
A Mumbai police officer's search for a missing teenage girl leads her to the depraved world of child trafficking. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game between the officer and a ruthless mafia kingpin.
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Soviet Union. In the streets of Moscow alone there are over 30,000 surviving in this manner at the present time. The makers of the documentary film concentrated on a community of homeless children living hand to mouth in the Moscow train station Leningradsky. Eight-year-old Sasha, eleven-year-old Kristina, thirteen-year-old Misha and ten-year-old Andrej all dream of living in a communal home. They spend winter nights trying to stay warm by huddling together on hot water pipes and most of their days are spent begging. Andrej has found himself here because of disagreements with his family. Kristina was driven into this way of life by the hatred of her stepmother and twelve-year-old Roma by the regular beatings he received from his constantly drunk father. "When it is worst, we try to make money for food by prostitution," admits ...
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. When the Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's father says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution...
Faced with a documentary film that included an interview with a young girl forced into prostitution, Michael Kranz asked himself the apparently banal question of “what can be done?” He travelled to Bangladesh and began to search for the girl. A film that is both self-critical and critical of society about the desire to at least do something and not to simply and passively give in to the injustices in this world.
A journalistic investigation, built not on rumors and assumptions, but on direct evidence, revealing the true mechanisms of podium coronations. Hidden camera footage of negotiations with the owners of the largest national beauty contests and an attempt to answer the question of why these people are not yet in prison. Famous people on the jury are not a guarantee of fair judging. Irrefutable evidence of the corruption of the so-called “stars” who elect the next Miss and Mrs. The collection and subsequent theft of funds for charity is a side business of the owners of fraudulent shows. What actually awaits the titled Misses after purchasing the prize? And what do children's beauty pageants turn out to be like for young participants?
Thirteen-year-old Kerry is repeatedly sexually abused by several adults, including at one point her mother. Her father sets her up as a prostitute. Kerry finally calls Childline and is put in a safe house, where she tries to come to terms with what has been done to her. Based on a true story, with the names changed to protect the real Kerry's identity.
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.
Prostitution is banned in Thailand, yet every year about 400,000 men from Germany travel to the Asian country. The so-called sex tourists spend a few nice days in the coastal city of Pattaya with bought "girlfriends" and thus circumvent the prostitution ban. Besides seemingly harmless sex meetings, however, there is also child prostitution, which has worsened especially since the Corona lockdown and also poses major problems for the police.