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Sex Traffic (2004)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 189 min.
TV show
Story:
Boston based Kernwell Industries is an American defense contractor. One of those contracts is to deploy 3,000 peacekeepers to the International Peacekeeping Coalition's work in the Balkans. Because of the near epidemic problem of sex trafficking of young Balkan women, Kernwell has decided to support the charity, Worldwide Federation Against Forced Migration. Kernwell's head of charities is Madeleine Harlsburg, the wife of the company's CEO, Tom Harlsburg. Although it does not have a pristine reputation as a good social corporate citizen, Kernwell hits a bigger public relations problem when it is learned that one of those 3,000 peacekeepers was caught trying to buy the services of a teen-aged prostitute in Sarajevo. Although not named to the media, that person is Sergeant Callum Tate, who swears he was trying to save that woman. In reality, Tate has evidence of a larger conspiracy of sex trafficking...
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, realistic, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
human trafficking, sex trafficking, sexual abuse, prostitute, anal rape, white slavery, stripper, whistleblower, corruption, woman in danger, pimp, life is a bitch, society, trafficking, forced prostitution, kidnapping, rape, slavery, prostitution, human rights, organized crime, gory, conspiracy, siblings relations, gangster ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
eastern europe, england, europe, former yugoslavia
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Country: Canada
Duration: 63 min.
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Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 53 min.
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Duration: 50 min.
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Style:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 59 min.
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Plot:
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Country: China, Hong Kong
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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TV show
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