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Red Light (2020)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Three women become entangled in the world of human trafficking and prostitution when Esther's husband suddenly disappears. From completely different worlds, the lives of these women become intertwined. They discover that they need each other to escape from the difficult situations they find themselves in.
Style:
psychological, suspense, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, emotional, intense, crime drama, tense, dark
Plot:
prostitution, human trafficking, forced prostitution, sex trafficking, prostitute, exploitation, women, life is a bitch, social problems, female protagonist, survival, female friendship, organized crime, danger, abuse, trauma, rescue, brothel, urban, resilience, moral ambiguity, social realism, social commentary, investigation, intimate ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
netherlands
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, suspense and disturbing films and TV series with plots about investigation, moral ambiguity, social problems, urban, female protagonist, life is a bitch and corruption mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Red Light: Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (2005), Sex Traffic (2004), Eden (2012), Doctor Lawyer (2022), She Has a Name (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
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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:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 189 min.
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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 ...
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
human trafficking, sex trafficking, sexual abuse, prostitute, anal rape, white slavery, stripper, whistleblower, corruption, woman in danger, pimp, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, europe, england, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of Chong Kim who, as a young teen, was abducted into the sex trade, and the complicated moral choices she had to make in order to survive as her situation grew more desperate.
Style:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, sex trafficking, kidnapping, prostitution, captivity, rape, teenage life, pimp, slavery, smuggling, prostitute, sex slave ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, nevada, las vegas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Han Yi Han was an elite surgeon. He graduated at the top of the best medical school in South Korea and he specialized in two departments: general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery. One surgery changed his life. Han Yi Han believe he did well on ...
Style:
tense, suspense, medical drama, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
medical, medical malpractice, surgeon, attorney, lawyer, prosecutor, corruption, ethical dilemma, courtroom, justice, hospital, lifestyle change ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Thailand
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jason, an American lawyer, poses as a john to build a legal case against a pimp trafficking girls to Bangkok. Can he win the trust of a young prostitute known only as Number 18 and convince her to risk her life to testify against her pimp?
Style:
captivating, suspense, christian film
Plot:
child trafficking, human trafficking, sex trafficking, investigation, slave trade, prostitution, slave trader, pimp, life is a bitch, social issues, crime investigation, sexploitation ...
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
In order to raise the money that she needs, Rosa (Damayanti Quintanar), works two jobs: one in a chemical factory and the other as part of the cleaning staff at the Valladares home, one of the wealthiest families in the city. It will be this job ...
Style:
suspense, crime drama, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, single mother, mother son relationship, sick child, motherhood, corruption, survival, working class, class conflict, financial problem, female assassin, family relations ...
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale, for which nine men were convicted and sentenced. The drama explores how these girls were groomed, how they were ignored by the authorities ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
human trafficking, teenage girl, rape, working class, sex trafficking, police investigation, true crime, court case, sex slave, sexualized violence, abuse, sexual abuse ...
Place:
bristol
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A whip-smart doctor comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalized. Instead, she becomes a cleaning lady for the mob and starts ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
violence, organized crime, female doctor, female protagonist, cleaning lady, witnessing a crime, illegal alien, true crime, sick child, witness, criminal underworld, social problems ...
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 227 min.
TV show
Story:
A man gets a new job in the idyllic surroundings of Jordnära, a gated community that runs a successful organic farm. But he quickly realizes that their rules and routines are somewhat unorthodox.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
community, farm, workplace, secret, farmer, new job, society, human trafficking, slave trade, deception, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
67K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
When family man Nick Brewer is abducted in a crime with a sinister online twist, those closest to him race to uncover who is behind it and why.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot:
social media, kidnapped man, kidnapping, kidnapped, social network, social issues, social problems, lifestyle, society, life is a bitch, crime investigation, multiple storylines ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
oakland california, australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Two years after her sister Liliana disappeared without a trace, Mariana receives painful closure when her body is finally discovered. Mariana’s pain empowers her to embark on a tireless mission to learn the truth about what happened to Liliana – ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
violence, women's rights, social problems, life is a bitch, social issues, female protagonist, sorority, women, society, social injustice, gender issues, gender equality ...
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
A traumatic head injury leaves Sophie with extreme memory loss. In her quest to put the pieces of her life back together—with help from her husband and friends—Sophie begins to question the truth behind her picture-perfect life.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
suicide attempt, self discovery, female protagonist, amnesia, memory loss, suicide, life is a bitch, introspection, psychological trauma, suicide threat, problem, social problems ...
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime
Country: Colombia
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Story:
Persuaded by promises of a better life, three young women are sold into prostitution and must risk their lives and their families to escape.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, crime drama, emotional ...
Plot:
forced prostitution, sex slavery, illegal prostitution, exploitation, abuse, sexual abuse, sex trafficking, victimization, human trafficking, escape attempt, runaway, social problems ...
Similarity:
14%
245
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
The young Doctor Eva leaves her home Moldova to work in Istanbul, together with her sister Felicia. Due to inadvertency they land in the hands of a gang of prostitution but somehow Eva manages to escape and tries to save her sister. Adam, Pinar, ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, crime drama, crime thriller ...
Plot:
organized crime, illegal prostitution, forced prostitution, prostitution, brothel, human trafficking, trapped, women, trap, prostitute, street prostitution, social problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
26%
250
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the international refugee crisis, depicting a world where greed, violence and exploitation compete with hopes and dreams amid a constant fight for survival.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, refugee, lawyer, migration, slave trade, lifestyle change, problem, criminal underworld, changing lives, kidnapping, female protagonist, runaway ...
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Two young Finnish women in London are drawn inexorably together via the Studio - a clandestine group dedicated to bringing justice to those beyond the law. But, as their battle against exploitation, violence and corporate greed intensifies, will the ...
Style:
tense, crime thriller, suspense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
violence, secret organization, women, vigilante justice, moral ambiguity, corporate greed, lawlessness, social problems, breaking the law, female protagonist, greed, legal ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
20%
505
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
A dark world of well-organised drug crime is hidden behind the calm life of Brabant. Jara and Rens both come to discover that when upon return to their birth province after a long time. She wants to clear the name of her father, he wants to distance ...
Style:
psychological, crime drama, crime thriller, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
drug traffic, organized crime, corruption, underworld, drug, relationships, family relations, problem, male female relationship, life is a bitch, social problems, criminal underworld ...
Similarity:
19%
1K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Astrid Holleeder works towards the moment when she definitively betrays her brother to Justice. Flashbacks make it clear what childhood she and her brother have wrestled themselves with and how painful, but necessary, her betrayal is.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, dark, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
attorney, criminal, lawyer, sibling rivalry, organized crime, betrayal, family drama, true crime, criminal underworld, dedicated lawyer, crime investigation, secret ...
Place:
amsterdam, netherlands
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
Il bene e il male is an Italian television series.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot:
secret, suicide, murder, lifestyle, moral dilemma, grief, loss, family drama, investigation, society, murder mystery, uncover truth ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
19%
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:
independent film, crime drama, psychological, realistic, thrilling ...
Plot:
poverty, murder investigation, prostitution, investigation, women, human trafficking, exploitation, social problems, street prostitution, female protagonist, crime investigation, prostitute ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
19%
892
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The tragic yet hopeful story of Fanny, a young teen from a good suburban home whose life spirals out of control when she falls for a manipulative and abusive man.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, emotional, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
human trafficking, sexploitation, manipulation, runaway, abuse, slave trade, female protagonist, slave trader, star crossed lovers, fall in love, sex trafficking, trauma ...
Place:
quebec, montreal
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Twenty-something Phoebe leaves her job at a prominent law firm to work at a family violence legal centre. Pressure mounts to save the centre as relationships are tested.
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, tense, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
domestic violence, trauma, women's rights, female protagonist, conflict, resilience, ethical dilemma, female empowerment, social justice, urban, moral ambiguity, social work ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 290 min.
TV show
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Band of Gold is a British drama series written by Kay Mellor and produced by Granada Television. It was originally shown on ITV between 1995 and 1997. Starring Geraldine James, Cathy Tyson, Barbara Dickson and Samantha Morton, the series revolves ...
Style:
crime drama, dark, tense, intense, noir ...
Plot:
female friendship, brothel, prostitution, sex worker, red light district, sex work, sexploitation, working class, realism, social realism, loan shark, survival ...
Time:
90s
Place:
northern england, yorkshire, england
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Small World was an animated anthology show, which aired on Cartoon Network in the 1990s, after another show aimed at preschoolers Big Bag. It featured several segments from animated TV programs from several countries.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, crime drama, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, police inspector, pedophilia, child abuse, danger, kidnapped child, child kidnapping, abduction, police detective, police investigation, kidnapped, kidnapped daughter ...
Place:
bangkok thailand
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Rowan's life spirals when Finn is coerced into a botched drug deal by a local gang. With Finn's life on the line and a violent gang leader encroaching on her life, Rowan is faced with recouping the money that Finn lost.
Style:
tense, crime drama, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
organized crime, drug, desperation, gang violence, drug deal, protective parent, gang war, crime boss, threat, drug traffic, life is a bitch, drug smuggling ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
A band of freedom fighters invade the trial of a white police officer who shot a Black man — and a hostage situation unfolds on screens nationwide.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
hostage situation, organized crime, hostage, police brutality, racial tension, social commentary, racial injustice, freedom, criminal, black people, fight for freedom, bandit ...
Place:
africa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
When her marriage fails Sylvia is forced to move with her children into a brothel on the Chaussée d'Amour. Out of financial necessity she decides to exploit the bar. Meanwhile a detective tries to solve an old murder case.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, melancholic ...
Plot:
prostitution, murder investigation, investigation, money problems, social problems, lifestyle change, family problems, changing lives, crime investigation, female protagonist, needing money, marital separation ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
TV show
Story:
The series deals with three groups: modern businessmen - drug dealers and their subordinates, police officers and finally teenagers and their parents all operating in the seedy underbelly of Belgrade.
Style:
tense, crime drama, detective, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
teenager, police procedural, organized crime, drug trade, teenage life, drug, teen angst, social problems, multiple storylines, life is a bitch, society, social issues ...
Place:
serbia, belgrade
Similarity:
18%
1K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
When Katarina Huss starts as a police officer, she must learn to cope with the hard everyday life on the streets of Gothenburg. At the same time, her colleagues seem to be hiding something and soon she is drawn into a tangle of corruption and ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime drama, detective, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, corruption, police, policewoman, investigation, police procedural, disorder, coworker, fighting crime, civil unrest, police station, betrayal ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min.
TV show
Story:
A survival story from the perspective of three different characters - a Silicon Valley Executive who gets back to Mexico, an ex-Mexican Navy who is determined to get into the United States, and an El-Paso detective who battles his demons.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, crime drama, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
migrant, survival, social problems, problem, multiple storylines, life is a bitch, corruption, violence, immigration, moral ambiguity, border crossing, multiple perspectives ...
Place:
mexico, usa, el paso texas
Similarity:
17%
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