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Sold (2014)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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...
Style:
rough, serious, suspense, disturbing, social
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
child prostitution, sex trafficking, child trafficking, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, forced prostitution, poverty, teenager, salvation, new job, rape, children, women, prostitution, human trafficking, call girl, resistance, sexual harassment, human rights, moral dilemma, activism, dilemma, street walker, girl, stepfather
Place:
nepal, india
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and bleak films with plots about life is a bitch, rape, youth, society, sexual abuse, teenager and teenage girl mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Sold: Lakshmi (2014), Angels of the Sun (2006), Stolen Dreams (2009), The Poker House (2008), Trafficked (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Based on true events, Lakshmi is a story of heroism and untold courage. Lakshmi, a 13 year old girl is kidnapped and sold into prostitution. Thrown into this horrific, inhuman world where she is raped and brutally beaten she barely survives with the ...
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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:
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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.
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disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, sexual ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Meet Shivani Shivaji Roy, Senior Inspector, Crime Branch, Mumbai Police, as she sets out to confront the mastermind behind the child trafficking mafia, which makes the mistake of kidnapping and smuggling a teenage girl who is like a daughter to her. ...
Style:
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Plot:
child prostitution, teenage prostitute, female detective, female protagonist, one woman army, tough law enforcer, chase, danger, law enforcement, police investigation, female police officer, rape ...
Time:
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Place:
india
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
50%
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166
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Follows the journey of Natalie "Honey Bee" Sorensen, an underage truck stop prostitute trapped in a human trafficking ring until she is transplanted into foster care in remote Northern Ontario and forced to confront her identity.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, tense
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, UK, Argentina
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Netherlands, UK, Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
child prostitute, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, social decay, youth, danger, society, prostitution, social worker, police, children, call girl ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Time:
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Country: USA, UK
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Story:
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Plot:
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120K
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
rape, dysfunctional family, coming of age, poverty, teacher, sexual abuse, illiteracy, african american, domestic violence, aids, child abuse, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Movie in collections
10K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, sex trafficking, kidnapping, prostitution, captivity, rape, teenage life, pimp, slavery, smuggling, prostitute, sex slave ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, disturbing, sincere, rough ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
18%
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Thailand
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, investigation, injustice, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, legal, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, bounty hunter, rivalry ...
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Place:
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547
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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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:
17%
784
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, independent film, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, long island
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, boarding school, school, black, high school life, teenager, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, drug use, teenage girl, power struggle, fight for supremacy, underage drinking ...
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32K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, psychological, independent film, sad, sincere ...
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teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage girl, rape, bullying, youth, rape victim, school, teenage life, innocence lost, teenager, unsupportive friend, high school life ...
Time:
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Place:
columbus ohio, usa
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309
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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