Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "forced-into-prostitution"

1. Last Night in Soho (2021)

R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Aspiring fashion designer Eloise is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s, where she encounters dazzling wannabe singer Sandie. But the glamour is not as it seems, and the dreams of the past crack and splinter into something darker.

Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg

Votes: 177,647

2. Redeeming Love (2022)

PG-13 | 134 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Sold into prostitution as a child, Angel knows nothing but betrayal. Can her heart ever be mended? Based upon the novel by Francine Rivers.

Director: D.J. Caruso | Stars: Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis, Eric Dane, Famke Janssen

Votes: 14,352

3. Bad Girls (1994)

R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Four prostitutes join together to travel the Old West.

Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, Drew Barrymore

Votes: 13,560 | Gross: $15.24M

4. The Immigrant (2013)

R | 120 min | Drama, Romance

In 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Dagmara Dominczyk

Votes: 33,818 | Gross: $2.01M

5. Love Sonia (2018)

122 min | Drama

Inspired by real life events, Love Sonia is the story of a young girl's journey to rescue her sister from the dangerous world of international sex trafficking.

Director: Tabrez Noorani | Stars: Abhishek Bharate, Riya Sisodiya, Mrunal Thakur, Adil Hussain

Votes: 2,398

6. Tank (1984)

PG | 113 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Sergeant Major Zack arrives at a new army base with his wife, son and Sherman tank. One night at a bar he "stops" a pimp/deputy from beating a girl. The corrupt sheriff uses Zack's son for revenge and Zack uses his tank.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: James Garner, Shirley Jones, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Herrier

Votes: 4,685 | Gross: $14.13M

7. Jane Got a Gun (2015)

R | 98 min | Action, Drama, Western

A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him.

Director: Gavin O'Connor | Stars: Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor, Rodrigo Santoro

Votes: 23,862 | Gross: $1.51M

8. Eden (I) (2012)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young Korean-American girl, abducted and forced into prostitution by domestic human traffickers, cooperates with her captors in a desperate ploy to survive.

Director: Megan Griffiths | Stars: Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges, Matt O'Leary, Eddie Martinez

Votes: 9,466

9. Safe in Hell (1931)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, John Wray

Votes: 2,044

10. Salaam Bombay! (1988)

Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama

Young Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India.

Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Shafiq Syed, Anjaan, Amrit Patel, Murari Sharma

Votes: 10,107 | Gross: $2.08M

11. The Street Fighter (1974)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After failing to reach a deal with her enemies, a mercenary karateka protects the daughter of a recently-deceased oil tycoon from the evil conglomerate gunning for her inheritance.

Director: Shigehiro Ozawa | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Goichi Yamada, Yutaka Nakajima, Chiyoko Kazama

Votes: 5,674

12. Street Girls (1975)

R | 74 min | Drama, Thriller

When a middle-aged father searches for his dropout daughter Angel, his quest takes him into the underworld of prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts, and thieves.

Director: Michael Miller | Stars: Carol Case, Paul Pumpian, Art Burke, Christine Souder

Votes: 191

13. Tiresia (2003)

Unrated | 115 min | Drama

Tiresia is at the same time woman and man, according to Greek Mythology. Here, Tiresia is a Brazilian transexual living with her brother in the outskirts of Paris. Terranova, an admirer of ... See full summary »

Director: Bertrand Bonello | Stars: Laurent Lucas, Clara Choveaux, Thiago Telès, Célia Catalifo

Votes: 1,202

14. Mardaani (2014)

Not Rated | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A female cop Shivani Shivaji Roy, working at a Mumbai Crime Branch, who sets out to confront the mastermind behind a child trafficking mafia.

Director: Pradeep Sarkar | Stars: Rani Mukerji, Jisshu Sengupta, Anant Vidhaat, Mona Ambegaonkar

Votes: 13,443

15. Racket Girls (1951)

Unrated | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A money launderer uses women's wrestling as a front for his illegal activities, but earns the enmity of a powerful mobster.

Director: Robert C. Dertano | Stars: Peaches Page, Timothy Farrell, Clara Mortensen, Rita Martínez

Votes: 1,117

16. Born American (1986)

R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A trio of vacationing American students cross the border from Finland to the USSR during the Cold War and are soon imprisoned after a skirmish with Soviet soldiers.

Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Mike Norris, Steve Durham, David Coburn, Thalmus Rasulala

Votes: 2,188 | Gross: $3.39M

17. Leo the Last (1970)

R | 104 min | Drama, Comedy

A social satire about the last heir of a dethroned family of European monarchs whose plans to return to power through revolution become secondary after he becomes fascinated by the life of a poor London black girl and her boyfriend.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Billie Whitelaw, Calvin Lockhart, Glenna Forster-Jones

Votes: 671

18. Krishna (I) (1996)

Not Rated | 156 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A convict freshly out of prison is given an undercover name "Krishna" and the task to bring down a drug kingpin and his cartel.

Directors: S. Deepak, Deepak S. Shivdasani | Stars: Suniel Shetty, Karisma Kapoor, Shakti Kapoor, Tinnu Anand

Votes: 431

19. Mandalay (1934)

Passed | 65 min | Drama

Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 1,125

20. House of Cruel Dolls (1974)

Not Rated | 90 min | Thriller

A gang of white slavers forces women into prostitution.

Director: Pierre Chevalier | Stars: Sandra Julien, Silvia Solar, Magda Mundari, Olivier Mathot

Votes: 174

21. Baaghi: A Rebel for Love (1990)

157 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A saga of love as a man turns rebellious and goes against his family and society to protect his love, a prostitute from evil.

Director: Deepak S. Shivdasani | Stars: Salman Khan, Nagma, Shakti Kapoor, Kiran Kumar

Votes: 1,837

22. Painted Angels (1998)

R | 108 min | Drama, Western

The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehouse is run by pragmatic madam Annie Ryan and the film follows the life of several of her girls.

Director: Jon Sanders | Stars: Brenda Fricker, Kelly McGillis, Meret Becker, Bronagh Gallagher

Votes: 232

23. The Flesh Merchant (1956)

60 min | Drama

A girl visiting her sister in Hollywood hopes for a modeling career, but is tricked by pimps into working at a brothel.

Director: W. Merle Connell | Stars: Joy Reynolds, Geri Moffatt, Marko Perri, Guy Manford

Votes: 288

24. Beautiful Days (2018)

105 min | Drama

A Chinese student travels to Seoul in search of his mother, whom he has not seen for fourteen years.

Director: Jero Yun | Stars: Jang Dong-yoon, Oh Gwang-Rok, Lee Na-young

Votes: 175

25. Slaves in Bondage (1937)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Berrywood Roadhouse is a den of iniquity outside of town. Crooks use a beauty shop to recruit floozies into vice. The crooks target Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon and is pursued by reporter wannabe Phillip as their next victim.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Lona Andre, Donald Reed, Wheeler Oakman, Florence Dudley

Votes: 243

26. Masz na imie Justine (2005)

97 min | Thriller

When Polish teenager Mariola is duped by her new boyfriend and sold to a sex-trafficking ring in Germany, she is faced with a choice: die along with her grandmother, or adopt to her new identity as an experienced call-girl.

Director: Franco de Peña | Stars: Anna Cieslak, Arno Frisch, Rafal Mackowiak, Mathieu Carrière

Votes: 530

27. The Red Kimono (1926)

Unrated | 77 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A small-town girl finds escape from her cruel home life in the arms of a handsome stranger. Soon she finds herself working as a prostitute in New Orleans, desperately clinging to the belief that he really loves her.

Directors: Walter Lang, Dorothy Davenport | Stars: Priscilla Bonner, Nellie Bly Baker, Carl Miller, Mary Carr

Votes: 376

28. Gambling with Souls (1936)

Unrated | 70 min | Drama

Young girls are cheated in rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Martha Chapin, Wheeler Oakman, Bryant Washburn, Gay Sheridan

Votes: 213

29. The Wayward Wife (1953)

91 min | Drama

Gemma, daughter of a lodger, is in love with her half-brother, but since she cannot marry him she ends up marrying a teacher. She doesn't love him and betrays him but is blackmailed by a ... See full summary »

Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Gabriele Ferzetti, Franco Interlenghi, Nanda Primavera

Votes: 330

30. The Hard Road (1973)

R | 85 min | Drama

The cautionary tale of 17-year-old Sherman Oaks high-schooler Pam Banner, who has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to return to school, so her dad gets ... See full summary »

Director: Gary Graver | Stars: Connie Nelson, John Alderman, Catherine Howard, Gary Kent

Votes: 157

31. Roberte (1979)

104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Zucca | Stars: Denise Morin-Sinclaire, Pierre Klossowski, Martin Loeb, Barbet Schroeder

Votes: 53

32. Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1987)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favors regularly on a cross-country night sleeper. She makes sure ... See full summary »

Director: Bob Ellis | Stars: Wendy Hughes, Colin Friels, Norman Kaye, John Clayton

Votes: 175 | Gross: $0.40M

33. The Velvet Trap (1966)

80 min | Drama

Put upon greasy spoon waitress Julie gets raped by her drunken short order cook boss. After managing to escape, Julie hooks up with regular patron Brad Collins and heads off to Las Vegas ... See full summary »

Director: Ken Kennedy | Stars: Jamie Karson, Alan Jeffory, Betty Coryell, Irene Graham

Votes: 71

34. Angel Terminators II (1992)

93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

When teens help a friend who's been forced into prostitution they upset some very dangerous people. With the help of a renegade cop a bloody war ensues with tragic consequences.

Directors: Lau Chan, Chun-Ku Lu | Stars: Sibelle Hu, Moon Lee, Yukari Ôshima, Andy Cheng

Votes: 214

35. The Nude Body Case in Tokyo (1981)

81 min | Crime, Thriller

Learning of childhood friend Meihua's death, Lingling goes to Japan to find Meihua's sister, Meifeng. Brutal gangsters demand Lingling return an item Meihua stole, and hold Meifeng hostage. Old friends help Lingling confront the gang.

Director: Yang-Ming Tsai | Stars: Hui-Shan Yang, Te-Kai Liu, Sha Ma, Emily Y. Chang

Votes: 47

36. Fishnets (2021)

40 min | Short, Drama

Charisma Harper, a vulnerable teenager, finds romance and comfort in a charming online boyfriend, Eli. Disturbances in her home life push her into the arms of her newfound love until Eli ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Nesbit | Stars: La'Myah, Quasheem D. Herring, Edwin L. Wright, Chamise Renee

Votes: 11

37. Virginity (1937)

83 min | Drama

Young and stunningly beautiful Hana is thrown into the street after her mother catches her stepfather sexually harassing Hana. She finds a new job at a café where she becomes the object of ... See full summary »

Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Lída Baarová, Jaroslava Skorkovská, Frantisek Kreuzmann, Ladislav Bohác

Votes: 120

38. Missing 44: The Final Stage (2010 Video)

97 min | Horror, Thriller

Four teenage girls have been kidnapped, tortured, and trained as sex slaves by a trafficking ring. Will Yamamoto, who is in search of his missing lover, manage to rescue any of the victims?

Director: Yasushi Koshizaka | Stars: Ruby Aiba, Mirei Asaoka, Tsubasa Haruya, Yô Kamiyoshihara

Votes: 32

39. Street of Forgotten Women (1927)

53 min | Drama

Grace Fleming, a debutante, meets a theatre manager who convinces her to fund and star in a stage show. The show fails and she is too ashamed to return to her family and is forced to turn to prostitution.

Director: Norton S. Parker

Votes: 23

40. No hay trato (2014)

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Director: Claudio Posse | Stars: José D'Antona, Melanie Dell'Elce, Carlos Garmendia, Zaida Gatti

41. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Es war die Hölle (1995)

58 min | Crime, Drama

Ther professor Roman Bertier is manager of a private clinic and he has met a young Polish woman Antonia Pawlak , who was prostitute and who has been beaten by her pimps.So Roman Bertier has... See full summary »

Director: Peter Deutsch | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 19

42. Charlie's Angels (1976–1981)
Episode: Angels in Chains (1976)

Not Rated | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The Angels go to prison to find out what happened to a client's missing sister.

Director: Phil Bondelli | Stars: Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, David Doyle

Votes: 491

43. Marker (1995)
Episode: From Russia Without Love (1995)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama

Richard, Danny, Moch, and Kimba help a young navy seal take down a white slavery operation to rescue the young man's bride to be.

Director: George Mendeluk | Stars: Richard Grieco, Andy Bumatai, Jonathan Erickson Eisley, Sholom Gelt

44. Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013– )
Episode: Chicago and the rise of Al Capone (2013)

TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, Action, Crime

We tell the story of the rise of Al Capone and mob rule in Chicago and explore why the roaring twenties played the crucial role in gangster life and the impact of widespread police corruption.

Director: Kevin R. Hershberger | Stars: Coby Batty, Matt K. Baker, Todd Barsness, James Christopher Cooke

45. Les Misérables (2018–2019)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2019)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance

After the passage of several years, Jean Valjean has unexpectedly become a success - he is now the owner of a factory and the mayor of Montreuil. But then he meets the town's new police chief, none other than his old nemesis, Javert.

Director: Tom Shankland | Stars: Lily Collins, Mailow Defoy, Olivia Colman, Sienna Barnes

Votes: 547