Movies like Trance 2006
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Trance (2006)
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Original name: Transe
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Russia, France, Portugal
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, queer cinema
Plot:
human trafficking, sex slavery, organized crime, prostitute, humiliation, abduction, violence against women, zoophilia, rape, dog, slavery, mental disorder, female nudity, kidnapping, handicapped, father son relationship, female protagonist, mentally challenged, russian abroad, bestiality, naivete, forced prostitution, prostitution, brothel, sex trafficking ...
Place:
europe, italy, russia, st. petersburg russia, germany, russian
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about female nudity, rape, kidnapping, life is a bitch, human trafficking, forced prostitution and prostitution mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Trance: Cargo (2011), Trafficked (2017), The Chosen Ones (2015), I Am Still Here (2017), Emmanuelle VI: Wild Paradise (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
human trafficking, rape, sex slavery, society, life is a bitch, on the road, brutality, abduction, russian immigrant, trick, model, passport ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
human trafficking, slavery, sex slavery, forced labor, captivity, abduction, woman in danger, forced prostitution, life is a bitch, female friendship, sex trafficking, rape ...
Place:
northern california, new delhi, nigeria, houston texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
sexy, contemplative, unusual plot structure, touching, suspenseful ...
Plot:
prostitution, teenage prostitution, teenage girl, teenager, brother brother relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, following someone, father son relationship, family relations, danger, friendship, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tijuana mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Exploring the serious issue of Human trafficking; especially the trafficking of children as young as five years. Giving an inside look at the devastation these children face on a daily basis.
Style:
tense, disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
slave girl, kidnapped woman, sex slavery, pedophile, female bondage, kidnapped child, kidnapping, abduction, kidnapped girl, disappearance, sexual assault, kidnapped ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
erotic, sexploitation film
Plot:
emmanuelle, sexpot, sex, female masturbation, female pubic hair, desire, voyeur, erotica, sexual attraction, attempted rape, sex slavery, nude bathing ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, venezuela
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Romanian girl dreams of living the glamorous life she sees in Italian soap operas.
Style:
sexy, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
forced prostitution, illegal prostitution, italian mafia, torturer, sadist, teenage prostitute, prostitution, model, female protagonist, female masturbation, blackmail, leaving home ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
satanic, disturbing, touching, tense, crime thriller ...
Plot:
human trafficking, violence against women, injustice, social injustice, human rights, kidnapping, sister sister relationship, friendship, christian, young woman, faith, corruption ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
rough, serious, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
teenage prostitute, child prostitution, prostitution, child abuse, sex slave, slave trader, forced prostitution, prostitute, brothel, slave girl, sex slavery, slave trade ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.
Style:
touching, erotic, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
violence against women, sex slavery, forced prostitution, sex trafficking, human trafficking, sexualized violence, striptease, sex club, slavery, sexploitation, organized crime, sexual abuse ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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. ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, abduction, sex slavery, sex trafficking, sexploitation, exploitation, kidnapped child, slavery, slave girl, predator, social issues ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Colombia, Venezuela
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman travels abroad trying to realize her dream of being a model, but there she is deceived and subjected to prostitution at the Cabaret Tango Bar, where she experiences the horrors as a victim of a sex trafficking network.
Style:
dark drama, tense, crime thriller, noir
Plot:
forced prostitution, sex trafficking, mature, exploitation, sexual abuse, prostitution, human trafficking, deception, trapped, psychological trauma, survival, oppression ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, crime drama, independent film
Plot:
rape, sex slavery, violence against women, kidnapping, violence, struggle for survival, trap, graphic violence, female bondage, human trafficking, female nudity, true crime ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A man without scruples mistreats his lover and her daughter, a teenager. also in his mind a diabolical plan to force the girl into prostitution.
Style:
dark, bleak, intense, erotic, art house ...
Plot:
prostitution, brothel, sexual abuse, victimization, forced prostitution, abuse, loss of innocence, sexploitation, teenager, abusive stepfather, domestic violence, human trafficking ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young Romanian woman is snatched in broad daylight from a London street, trafficked to Ireland and used as a sex slave in a series of pop-up brothels. Her shocking true story offers a tense and thought-provoking thriller exposing how, in modern ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense, crime thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, human trafficking, kidnapped, kidnapped woman, criminal, female protagonist, slave trader, slave, slavery, life is a bitch, slave auction, criminal underworld ...
Place:
ireland, london
Similarity:
20%
205
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Princess is a young illegal immigrant from Nigeria who sells her body on the outskirts of a big city. Like an Amazon on the hunt, protected by her friends, she moves through a pinewood that stretches as far as the sea, an enchanted forest in which ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
sex trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking, female protagonist, illegal immigrant, african, exploitation, resilience, street life, illegal immigration, trauma, poverty ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
20%
706
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, touching
Plot:
rape, teenage prostitute, dishonesty, brutality, life is a bitch, prostitute, seduction, sex slavery, female friendship, forced prostitution, prostitution, deception ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot:
lesbian love, nightclub, women, social problems, prostitution, female protagonist, sex, seduction, forced prostitution, life is a bitch, sexual relations, model ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspense, touching ...
Plot:
politics, love triangle, state affairs, against the rules, rebelliousness, follow your dream, love and romance, secret movement, female nudity, double life, student life, mole ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1968
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
prostitution, sex slavery, slave girl, domineering father, father daughter sex, sexual awakening, overbearing parent, teenage prostitute, power relations, father daughter relationship, life is a bitch, slave trade ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Selina's father sells her to Tiago who makes her a sex slave. With the help of Domeng, Tiago's blind slave, she plans their way out of this living hell.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, erotic
Plot:
sex slave, slave girl, sex slavery, female nudity, slavery, couple relations, life is a bitch, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, female protagonist, blindness, nudity, sexual content ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
19%
150
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, sexualized violence, rape victim, violence against women, shame, guilt, traumatic past, tragic past, violence, psychological trauma, rape, troubled past ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A gang of white slavers lure beautiful young women into prostitution by staging beauty contests in which the "prize" is a Hollywood contract. The "winners" are then drugged and sold to international sex traffickers
Style:
dark, tense, retro, noir, period piece ...
Plot:
sexploitation, prostitution, sexual content, human trafficking, white slavery, kidnapping, exploitation, abduction, female victim, organized crime, gang, sleazy ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Set in Vietnam and Germany, This Is Love centers on Chris and the nine-year-old Jenjira on the run from the mafia. Together with his friend Holger, Chris bought the young Vietnamese girl's freedom from human traffickers – without actually ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, detective, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mafia, forced prostitution, sex trafficking, human trafficking, criminal, investigation, organized crime, escape, danger, moral ambiguity, smuggling, pursuit ...
Place:
germany, vietnam, bangkok thailand, thailand
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
japanese occupation of korea, occupation, kidnapping, kidnapped woman, sexploitation, japanese occupation, rape, prisoners of war, life is a bitch, sex worker, kidnapped, abduction ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the age of 12, Gabriel was sexually abused by Father Vincey, his headmaster. Fifteen years later, he is still traumatized. Constantly racked by this wrong that he has kept secret, Gabriel buys a gun and moves in near the boarding school where the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
revenge, sexual abuse, pedophile priest, rape victim, church, trauma, rape and revenge, problem, sexualized violence, violence, pedophile, rape ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, touching
Plot:
racism, mother son relationship, adoption, husband wife relationship, pregnancy, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, abortion, mother daughter reunion, racial discrimination, cycling, dog ...
Time:
year 2015
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Hans and Lollo just had their first child. Hans is a gym teacher and is constantly tormented by his pupils. Hans's dad Bengt, is a news reporter on TV9, the channel who shows "such as people want to see". Bengt's latest report ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, crime drama, sinister ...
Plot:
female nudity, father son relationship, investigative journalism, unsettling, investigation, serial rapist, accusation, mistrust, family drama, ethical dilemma, paranoia, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, kidnapping, crime solving, kidnapped man, accused of murder, protagonist as suspect, mysterious disappearance, suspect, accusation, uncover truth, framed for murder, abduction ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, contemplative ...
Plot:
missing person, baby, family relations, husband wife relationship, dishonesty, parents and children, escapades, society, child abduction, abduction, female protagonist, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Martina is 18, loves dancing and goes by a nick name Shakira. Also, today she is leaving an orphanage...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
18 year old, forced prostitution, female protagonist, teenage life, social issues, socially awkward, coming of age, orphan, money problems, grownups, social problems, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Place:
prague
Similarity:
18%
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