Movies like Angels of the Sun

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Angels of the Sun (2006)
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Angels of the Sun (2006)
Original name: Anjos do Sol
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 abused girl to his teenager son to have his first sexual experience. Then she is sent to a brothel in a gold field in Amazonas and explored his owner, the despicable Saraiva. When Maria escapes to Rio de Janeiro expecting a better life, she is explored by the cáften Vera.
Style: psychological, rough, serious, suspense, disturbing
Plot: child prostitution, prostitution, prostitute, teenage prostitute, sex slave, slave girl, slave trader, sex slavery, child abuse, brothel, slavery, slave trade, social issues, forced prostitution, life is a bitch, captivity, slave, captive, social problems, family problems, child rape, poverty, jungle, rape, escape ...
Time: year 2002
Place: brazil

Most similar movies to Angels of the Sun

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, disturbing, captivating and suspense films with plots about prostitute, prostitution, life is a bitch, social problems, rape, female nudity and female protagonist mostly in Drama, Action and Romance genres. Some movies like Angels of the Sun: Buy Me (2018), Girls to Buy (2021), Trance (2006), Girl in the Bunker (2018), Sold (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Buy Me (2018)
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: captivating, tense, thought provoking, realistic, touching
Plot: life is a bitch, teenage prostitute, rape, prostitution, dishonesty, sex slavery, prostitute, seduction, female friendship, brutality, forced prostitution, deception ...
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Girls to Buy (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Emi is a young ambitious girl who has been dreaming about a big world for years. Whenever an opportunity arises, she jumps into its modes without hesitation, becoming an exclusive escort. Soon it is she who, at the invitation of Arab sheikhs, begins ...
Style: captivating, disturbing
Plot: sheik, prostitute, erotica, prostitution, escort, seduction, recruitment, male nudity, forced prostitution, women, attempted seduction, high society ...
Place: poland
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Trance (2006)
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 ...
Style: suspenseful, touching, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: sex slavery, human trafficking, abduction, violence against women, organized crime, prostitute, humiliation, rape, russian abroad, mentally challenged, naivete, dog ...
Place: europe, st. petersburg russia, russia, germany, italy
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Girl in the Bunker (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Set in 2006 and based on the true story of Elizabeth Shoaf, this powerful film explores the tension-filled ten days Elizabeth was kidnapped and held prisoner by Vinson Filyaw. Imprisoned in a secret underground bunker hidden deep in the woodland, ...
Style: suspense, psychological, rough, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, rape of a minor, sex slave, sexual assault, bunker, sexual predator, pedophile, teenage girl, pedophilia, police, impersonating a police officer, rape ...
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Sold (2014)
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 ...
Style: disturbing, serious, rough, suspense, social
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: sex trafficking, child prostitution, child trafficking, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, forced prostitution, stepfather, poverty, salvation, teenager, new job, human trafficking, rape ...
Place: nepal, india
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All Nudity Shall Be Punished (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A rich, spoiled young man encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can't decide between attraction, and repulsion.
Plot: sex with stepson, teenage sexuality, affair, stepmother, lgbt, prostitution, wedding, nudity, homosexual, aunt, gay, widower ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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Holly (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France, Israel, Cambodia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, HOLLY is a captivating, touching and emotional experience. Patrick, an American card shark and dealer of stolen artifacts, has ...
Style: disturbing, emotional, psychological, bleak, touching ...
Plot: innocence lost, child prostitution, lifestyle, young heroes, going straight, society, life is a bitch, hopes, redemption, social decay, youth, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cambodia, asia
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Minor Freedoms (2008)
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: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: prostitution, forced prostitution, sex slavery, slave girl, child prostitution, domineering father, sexual awakening, overbearing parent, teenage prostitute, slave trade, power relations, life is a bitch ...
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Miss Violence (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, serious, cerebral ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, child prostitution, perversion, incest rape, suicide, child abuse, incest, family problems, parents and children, domineering husband, teen suicide, childhood sexual abuse ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: greece, europe, athens greece
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Thirty Years of Adonis (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Yang Ke, a Beijing Opera actor, is fatefully driven into the underworld of masculine sex workers, and becomes a class of his own. He finds himself on a roller coaster between heavenly love with both men and women, and a living hell ensnared by ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, touching, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: gay, masseur, sex slavery, bondage, sex worker, sexuality, actor, captive, rape, erotica, bisexual, sex slave ...
Place: hong kong
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Little Feather (2016)
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: tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: 18 year old, forced prostitution, rape, female protagonist, social issues, society, financial problem, adulthood, social problems, life is a bitch, adolescence vs adulthood, coming of age ...
Place: prague
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Sara (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Journalist Sara has just spent four months completing an in-depth investigation piece. Her editor-in-chief, afraid of offending powerful politicians and business moguls, refuses to run it. Sara’s boyfriend, who works for the same magazine, chooses ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, intrigue, private investigation, investigation, child prostitution, crime solving, social problems, uncover truth, investigative journalism, female journalist, journalism ...
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Trafficked: A Parent's Worst Nightmare (2021)
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: psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, tense, suspense
Plot: sex slavery, sex slave, kidnapped girl, child abduction, kidnapped child, abduction, slavery, kidnapping, slave girl, human trafficking, life
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On the Farm (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal justice systems that allowed a wily psychopath to murder nearly 50 marginalised women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, social problems, slave trade, society, sex slavery, secret, sex slave, social relations, sex worker, uncover truth, disappearance, mysterious disappearance ...
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Happy Lambs (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, sexy
Plot: prostitution, brothel, mother son relationship, dysfunctional family, family problems, prostitute, social problems, family relations, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, single parent, single mother ...
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Hello Forever (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Philippines, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Four courageous women are faced with the harsh realities of poverty, prejudice, and corruption.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating, realistic, independent film
Plot: women, prostitute, prostitution, female protagonist, life is a bitch, social problems, poverty, crime investigation, murder investigation, street prostitution, social issues, investigation ...
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Glamour Girls (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Their life as luxury escorts offered these women glamour, money and a chance to reinvent themselves…until a murder and a robbery ruined everything.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: women, prostitute, female protagonist, prostitution, risk, social problems, threat, murder, seductress, escort, problem, big booty ...
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Shanghai Belle (2011)
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: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: lesbian love, bdsm, prostitute, nightclub, women, social problems, prostitution, sexual relations, sexual content, life is a bitch, female protagonist, sex ...
Place: paris france
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The Promised Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sylvie is a hooker whose illegitimate daughter commits a crime. She and her daughter flee to find Sylvie's first love in the countryside. The daughter is trying to get to know her unwilling mother. Along the way, the two meet a male fugitive ...
Style: tense, serious, psychological, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, family relations, on the run, starting over, death in the family, estrangement, family problems, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: france
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Selina's Gold (2022)
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: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, erotic
Plot: sex slave, female nudity, sex slavery, slave, slave girl, slavery, female protagonist, life is a bitch, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, 17 year old, male full rear nudity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: the philippines
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Yo-Yo Sexy Girl Cop (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A beautiful "special student undercover cop" attends a prestigious high school in order to bust up a student prostitution ring in this sexy spoof of the popular Yo-Yo Girl Cop series. Saki (Mihiro) may look like you're average ...
Style: erotic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: undercover agent, teenage prostitute, government agent, working undercover, prostitution, secret mission, forced prostitution, sexual content, female protagonist, agent, captive, fighting crime ...
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Lakshmi (2014)
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 ...
Style: serious, tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: cruelty, prostitution, police raid, female protagonist, brutality, pimp, whistleblower, underage, lawyer, human spirit, society, strong female character ...
Place: india
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She Walks (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story: An illegal Chinese immigrant and her teenage daughter are held captive in their home after a stranger breaks in.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: mother daughter relationship, prostitution, mysterious stranger, mysterious man, prostitute, illegal prostitution, family problems, lifestyle change, changing lives, family relations, street prostitution, life is a bitch ...
Place: paris france
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Stolen Dreams (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: teenage sex, coming of age, friends, society, lifestyle, prostitution, friendship, rivalry, poverty, teenage pregnancy, criminality, troubled youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, brazil, rio de janeiro
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Lady Zee (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A tragic comedy about an orphan girl who knows nothing better than the animal way but at the end comes to realize her only chance - to be human.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Plot: orphan, border crossing, prostitution, brothel, prostitute, social problems, mistrust, in love, life is a bitch, male female relationship, social relations, relationships ...
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Cute, But Ordinary (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family's honor.
Style: serious, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: sexual content, couple relations, moral dilemma, sexual fantasy, boss and employee, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, couples, rich and poor, sexual abuse, rough sex, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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Platonic Sex (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Aoi is gang-raped by her classmates and kicked out of her home by her own parents she sees no reason to continue living. Before she commits suicide, however, she receives an email on her cellphone from a man named Toshi addressed to a girl ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, sad
Plot: prostitution, sexual assault, tragic past, sexual abuse, social outcast, sexualized violence, social problems, life is a bitch, social issues, prostitute, sexual content, female protagonist ...
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, depressing ...
Plot: child abuse, pedophile, rape, sex, child molester, sexual abuse, child rape, coming of age, police, psychologist, child molestation, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2004
Place: tennessee, indiana, asia
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Jan Dara: The Finale (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Based on a famous Thai erotic novel, the film tells the story of Jan, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by his sadistic and debauched father, Luang Wisnan. Set in the 1930′s the story recounts the growing pains of Jan, whose mother dies ...
Style: erotic, sexy, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: brothel, prostitute, revenge, rape, hate, violence, life is a bitch, domestic violence, vengeance, family problems, violent, social problems ...
Time: 1930s
Place: bangkok thailand, thailand
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Prostitution (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Soo-hyeon and Hye-ji are sitting on a pile of debt thanks to their husband and father who ran away in the middle of the night. Tae-san the loan shark demands the money no matter what. He rapes the mother and daughter and requires them to join ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, disturbing
Plot: money, money problems, forced prostitution, social problems, mother daughter relationship, teenage prostitute, rape, violence, family problems, relationship problems, family relations, life is a bitch ...
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