Trafficking movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant trafficking movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, realistic, captivating, disturbing, serious and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with trafficking, human trafficking, prostitution, violence, prostitute, betrayal, survival, sex trafficking, corruption and life is a bitch plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as trafficking: Vendues (2004), You Deserve a Lover (2019), The Business of Pleasure (2023), For My Brother (2014), Angie: Lost Girls (2020), Taken 2 (2012), Promised Land (2004), Girl$ (2010), Sleeping Beauty (2011), Traffickers (2012).
Best films
New films
| Just 6.5 (2019) | 7.7 | |
| Traffik (2018) | 5.9 | |
| We Had It Coming (2019) | 5.6 | |
| Wonderful Copenhagen (2018) | 5.5 | |
| EXPO (2019) | 2.6 |
List of trafficking movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
7 young women from Eastern Europe accept to become prostitutes for a year in exchange for a journey that will take them from Belgrade to Marseilles and provide them with a French passport. Irina, a worker from a Moscow suburb, brings along Enki, her ...
Style:
dark drama, intense, tense, melancholic, road movie ...
Plot:
prostitution, trafficking, mafia, organized crime, exploitation, loss of innocence, human trafficking, migration, desperation, survival, journey, sisterhood ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
eastern europe, belgrade, france, chechnya
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After Rémi infidelity, Lila, who loved him more than anything, has a hard time dealing with their break-up. One day, he announces that he will travel alone to Bolivia to soul-search and try to understand his mistakes. There, he lets her know that ...
Style:
captivating, romantic, entertaining, crying
Plot:
swinger couple, breakup, romantic relationship, love and romance, love affair, in love, looking for love, couple relations, fall in love, male female relationship, relationships, trafficking ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Thriller
Country:
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Obsessed with the disappearance of her best friend who became a victim of sex trafficking, a journalist plots an undercover operation in order to expose the criminal network. But as her accomplices draw closer to the boss, the situation gets out of ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, tense, psychological, suspenseful
Plot:
slave trade, journalism, trafficking, sex trafficking, crime solving, private investigation, investigative reporter, uncover truth, crime investigation, fighting crime, female journalist, journalist ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The two brothers Aske (17 years old) and Bastian (12 years old) live with their father, Lasse. Their mother died seven years earlier. Every day they live in a world where fear, violence and alcohol are huge factors, but where the brothers' ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, touching, suspense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, child prostitution, child abuse, brothers, sexual perversion, human trafficking, pedophilia, nude boy, mistreatment, boy, incest, father son relationship ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After escaping from a sex trafficking ring, one teenage girl struggles to reconnect with herself and her family. To rescue her helpless friends, she must confront her own fears and help lead the police to her traffickers - at all costs.
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, investigation, child trafficking, survivor, trauma, survival, teenage prostitute, life is a bitch, threat, sex worker, teenager, runaway ...
Is relevant?
336K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Turkey, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, action packed, action thriller, saga ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, family outing, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, vigilante, one man army, kidnapped, hostage, brutality, lone hero, chase, retribution, secret service, hand to hand combat ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, europe, los angeles, balkan ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and of their initiation into this trade of flesh, and finally of the accidental freeing of ...
Style:
bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative, disturbing ...
Plot:
sexual content, innocence lost, human trafficking, prostitute, prostitution, life is a bitch, social decay, solace, human nature, trafficking, violent, exploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel
Is relevant?
405
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Four young women are tempted by the money that can be earned in prostitution. They have to learn in their own way that nothing comes without a price.
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, erotic, psychological ...
Plot:
anal rape, sexual relations, prostitute, society, sex scene, couples, swinger, passionate sex, redemption, human trafficking, swing, escort ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire.
Style:
erotic, sexy, erotic drama, modern fairy tale, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
perversion, prostitution, erotica, sexual perversion, sadomasochism, dirty old man, nudity, voyeur, male nudity, waitress, insomnia, lolita ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia, new zealand
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After his best friend dies in an unexpected accident, black market dealer Young-gyu decides to wash his hands off his illegal activities and start a new life with his girlfriend Yu-ri. But his dream stalls when he learns that Yu-ri needs money for ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, danger, nothing goes right, kidnapping, ship, gang, disorder, organ trafficking, betrayal, organized crime, chase, cat and mouse ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Is relevant?
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 ...
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
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Colombia, Ecuador
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, independent film, depressing, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
drug dealing, immigrant, human trafficking, friendship, coming of age, depression, drug, illegal immigration, women, drug abuse, addiction, character study ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
colombia, new york, south america, new jersey, latin america ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in London's world of high class call girls, Amoureux Solitaires tells the story of London based French escort Virginie, and Rupert, a man who rescues trafficked girls.
Style:
sexy, realistic, captivating, melancholic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
call girl, prostitution, sex scene, love, sex for money, bare breasts, sex trafficking, fetish, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rescue attempt, prostitute, train station ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Persuaded by her roommate, a college student makes an arrangement with an older man who pays for her companionship.
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, sex worker, prostitution, college student, money problems, university, blind date, age difference, working class family, campus, slave trader, slave trade ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 63 min.
TV show
Story:
When a sixteen-year-old girl from the Ukraine, a single mother from Russia, an orphaned seventeen-year-old girl from Romania, and a twelve-year-old American tourist become the victims of international sex slave traffickers, a specialized team of ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, sex trafficking, captivity, violence against women, slavery, forced prostitution, child prostitution, child abduction, rape of a girl, child rape, corruption ...
Place:
eastern europe, the philippines, thailand, ukraine, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young Australian woman reluctantly agrees to help a Chinese mother search for her missing daughter and becomes involved in human trafficking and the sex slave trade.
Style:
serious, tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
sex trafficking, human trafficking, sexual abuse, missing person, deportation, gangster, immigrant, manipulation, social decay, prostitute, trafficking, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, melbourne
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Qatar
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer. But her encounter with Djigui, a ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
poverty, friendship, slum, police, seduction, urban decay, ghetto, street gang, dancer, greed, danger, full moon ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, indiana
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Lilya lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilya hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working ...
Style:
sad, bleak, depressing, harsh, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
poverty, human trafficking, prostitution, friendship, sexual abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, suicide, teenage prostitution, teenage life, depression, rape ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
denmark, estonia, europe, russia, eastern europe ...
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668K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, action thriller, entertaining, fast ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, date night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
revenge, kidnapping, one man army, vigilantism, chase, secret service, human trafficking, cia, vigilante, violence, vengeance, danger ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, north america, usa
Is relevant?
22K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A couple off for a romantic weekend in the mountains are accosted by a biker gang. Alone in the mountains, Brea and John must defend themselves against the gang, who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.
Style:
perverse, sad, rough, dark, action adventure ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex trafficking, slave trade, young couple, female journalist, black, death of loved one, human trafficking, chase, black man, corrupt cop, gang, hunt down ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a small Chinese village in Yunnan, a young woman named Xiwen sees her little son Shitou die of poisoning from adulterated food. On the other side of the world, in Italy, Matteo works on behalf of Feng, a multinational based in Hong Kong that ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, love, moral dilemma, corporate corruption, trafficking, poisoning, grief, problem, fall in love, in love, star crossed lovers, relationship problems ...
Place:
china, italy
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story:
Chronicles the origins of notorious real-life drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, inspired in the acclaimed telenovela.
Style:
crime drama, realistic, tense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
drug lord, narcotics, organized crime, drug cartel, trafficking, drug trade, drug crime, criminal, drug dealer, criminal underworld, drug traffic, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Martina and Manuel cross the border from Bolivia as «mules». Manuel dies with the cocaine capsules inside his body. Martina turns to her father, who she never met before, for help.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, moral dilemma, female protagonist, absent father, drug dealer, drug traffic, death, cocaine, desperation, trafficking, social problems, family relations ...
Place:
bolivia, south america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A father and son represent two generations of policemen as they risk their lives in the war against drugs.
Style:
suspense, crime drama, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
police, drug, smuggling, gang, organized crime, narcotics, law enforcement, trafficking, drug bust, drug smuggling, criminal, police officer ...
Place:
china
Is relevant?
984
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, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
innocence lost, child prostitution, going straight, lifestyle, young heroes, hopes, life is a bitch, society, redemption, social decay, danger, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia, asia
Is relevant?
21K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The story of the six-and-a-half story narrative search for the anti-drug police is to find the great glass dealer in the capital.
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, intense, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
iranian, drug overdose, prison, drug, drug addict, propaganda, lawyer, police station, death sentence, torture, capitalism, deception ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tehran iran, persia, iran, middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young girl runs away and is forced to become a prostitute.
Style:
dark, bleak, emotional, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
runaway, abuse, survival, prostitute, exploitation, female protagonist, loss of innocence, escape, social commentary, desperation, human trafficking, victimization ...
Time:
90s
Place:
florida
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Narco Soldiers is a timely, action-packed crime thriller that explores the resurgence of the Caribbean drug routes and one couple's violent, Bonnie and Clyde-style rise to power.
Style:
tense, action packed, crime thriller, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drug cartel, organized crime, drug, violence, drug trade, criminal underworld, gangster, drug dealing, drug dealer, love affair, criminal, bandit ...
Place:
caribbean
Is relevant?
243
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story:
The series revolves around the family of Haji Abdul Sattar, who is a drug dealer and is assisted by his eldest son without the knowledge of his family. When Abdul Sattar dies, his sons know the truth from their elder brother, and they decide to ...
Style:
serious, rough, exciting, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
drug, shame, secrets, family relations, son, illegal drugs, drug dealer, family problems, father son relationship, father and son, drug trade, drug dealing ...
Is relevant?
190
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Estonia, Iceland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mihkel boards a ferry from his small town in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia, on his way to Iceland, where he wants to make a new life for himself and his fiancée, Vera. His friend Igor, who emigrated to Iceland a few years earlier, convinces ...
Style:
bleak, tense, crime thriller, suspenseful, tragic ending
Plot:
illegal drugs, drug dealer, drug smuggling, desperation, trafficking, betrayal, survival, isolation, moral ambiguity, migration, escape, poverty ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
iceland, estonia, st. petersburg russia
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