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1. Sound of Freedom (2023)
PG-13 | 131 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The incredible true story of a former government agent turned vigilante who embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue hundreds of children from traffickers.
Director: Alejandro Monteverde | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Mira Sorvino, Bill Camp, Cristal Aparicio
Votes: 114,574
2. Eastern Promises (2007)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Josef Altin
Votes: 261,330 | Gross: $17.11M
3. Miami Vice (2006)
R | 132 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris
Votes: 123,811 | Gross: $63.45M
4. Lost & Found (2022)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Mario, a worker in a "lost and found" warehouse, finds a suitcase with the remains of baby inside. His investigation leads him to a dangerous prostitution and trafficking ring.
Director: Jorge Dorado | Stars: Álvaro Morte, China Suárez, Verónica Echegui, Daniel Aráoz
Votes: 1,277
5. Night Shift (1982)
R | 106 min | Comedy
A mild-mannered morgue attendant is assigned to the night shift, and his new coworker, along with his prostitute neighbor, convince him of running a prostitution ring out of the morgue.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, Gina Hecht
Votes: 17,971 | Gross: $23.60M
6. The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)
R | 129 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name.
Director: Daniel Alfredson | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson
Votes: 98,529 | Gross: $9.08M
7. Gardens of the Night (2008)
R | 110 min | Drama
After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
Director: Damian Harris | Stars: Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich, Ryan Simpkins, Tom Arnold
Votes: 4,705
8. Blow the Man Down (2019)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Mary Beth and Priscilla Connolly attempt to cover up a gruesome run-in with a dangerous man. To conceal their crime, the sisters must go deep into the criminal underbelly of their hometown, uncovering the town's darkest secrets.
Directors: Bridget Savage Cole, Danielle Krudy | Stars: David Coffin, David Pridemore, Adam Wolf Mayerson, Mark S. Cartier
Votes: 12,192
9. Truck Turner (1974)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
While tracking a strong-armed pimp who has skipped bail, a bounty hunter discovers a contract has been put out on him and must go on the run.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase
Votes: 3,594 | Gross: $0.18M
10. Molotov Samba (2005)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A Brazilian pimp falls in love with a Russian prostitute, creating serious problems - and disastrous repercussions - for both.
Director: Todd Morris | Stars: Carlos Caldart, Layla Alexander, Nancy Ferrara, Ricardo Zamudio
Votes: 276
11. Sunset (1988)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway
Votes: 4,626 | Gross: $4.59M
12. Call Girl (2012)
140 min | Drama, Thriller
A young girl is recruited from the bottom rung of society into a ruthless world where power can get you anything.
Director: Mikael Marcimain | Stars: Sofia Karemyr, Simon J. Berger, Josefin Asplund, Pernilla August
Votes: 4,952
13. Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss (2004 TV Movie)
84 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles doctor and eventually became a prostitute for a well-known Los Angeles madam. She ... See full summary »
Director: Charles McDougall | Stars: Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Saul Rubinek, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Ian Tracey
Votes: 1,317
14. Black (2017)
TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A man possessed by death. A woman who can see death. The earthly and the afterworld collide dangerously.
Stars: Song Seung-heon, Go Ara, Lee El, Jo Jae-yoon
Votes: 4,569
15. Hammett (1982)
PG | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear
Votes: 3,694 | Gross: $0.04M
16. The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
While investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute, a detective uncovers a sex-trafficking ring with connections to powerful people.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Claudio Cassinelli, Mel Ferrer, Lia Tanzi, Gianfranco Barra
Votes: 1,764
17. Lowlife (2017)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong.
Director: Ryan Prows | Stars: Nicki Micheaux, Mark Burnham, Jon Oswald, Ricardo Adam Zarate
Votes: 2,650
18. Hollywood Vice Squad (1986)
R | 101 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A mother goes to Hollywood to find her runaway daughter. The Vice Squad discovers that a dangerous gangster has turned the girl into one of his junkie teen prostitutes. The Squad also investigates illegal betting and a BDSM pornographer.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Ronny Cox, Frank Gorshin, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Trish Van Devere
Votes: 657
19. What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Police investigate apparent suicide of teen girl and uncover details of a teenage prostitution racket. They go on the hunt for a motorcycle riding killer.
Director: Massimo Dallamano | Stars: Giovanna Ralli, Claudio Cassinelli, Mario Adorf, Franco Fabrizi
Votes: 2,400
20. Vice Academy (1989)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Crime
Students at the police vice academy go out on the streets of L.A. and accumulate graduation points by trying to make small arrests.
Director: Rick Sloane | Stars: Linnea Quigley, Ginger Lynn, Karen Russell, Jayne Hamil
Votes: 951
21. Confidentially Yours (1983)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent hides out from the cops while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Philippe Laudenbach
Votes: 7,505
22. The Insect Woman (1963)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama
Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-interest.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Seizaburô Kawazu, Kazuo Kitamura, Tanie Kitabayashi, Teruko Kishi
Votes: 2,503
23. Death Occurred Last Night (1970)
TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A compassionate police captain searches for a mentally challenged 25 year old daughter of a widower, who's been kidnapped and forced into prostitution.
Director: Duccio Tessari | Stars: Raf Vallone, Frank Wolff, Gabriele Tinti, Gillian Bray
Votes: 728
24. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Matsu is sheltered by an incestuous prostitute on her run from the police, her ex-prison mate and a cop whose arm she hacked off.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Mikio Narita, Reisen Ri, Yayoi Watanabe
Votes: 2,110
25. Little Girls (1966)
70 min | Crime, Drama
Four young teenage girls are betrayed by a supposed "friend" and sold to a perverted nightclub owner who ties them up, whips them and then forces them into prostitution.
Director: Gilbert Wolmark | Stars: Joël Barbouth, Hamera Belmecki, Willy Braque, Pascale-Corinne Deville
Votes: 95
26. In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A judge investigates the death of a young woman, possibly a murder. He suspects a famous industry tycoon with high political connections. But to what extent do the latter's lies and frauds influence the magistrate's opinion?
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Ely Galleani, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 1,705
27. Lakshmi (2014)
115 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor | Stars: Monali Thakur, Vibha Chhibber, Ranjeet Jha, Ram Kapoor
Votes: 1,681
28. Hypersomnia (2016)
90 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A young actress rehearsing for a play about human trafficking begins to relive terrifying scenes that may be dreams -- or an alternate reality.
Director: Gabriel Grieco | Stars: Yamila Saud, Gerardo Romano, Jimena Barón, Vanesa González
Votes: 1,317
29. Dark Confessions (1998)
R | 92 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Two women being blackmailed into becoming indentured sexual slaves. One of the women submits readily and the other resists.
Director: Lloyd A. Simandl | Stars: Kate Rodger, Lisha Snelgrove, Rena Riffel, Katerina Kornová
Votes: 207
30. The Chosen Ones (2015)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama
Young Ulises falls in love with teen Sofia, even as he is forced to lure her into his family's prostitution ring. Now he will do anything to save her.
Director: David Pablos | Stars: Nancy Talamantes, Óscar Torres, Leidi Gutiérrez, José Santillán Cabuto
Votes: 2,103
31. Debauchery (1983)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
A jaded housewife joins a secret member's only club in an attempt to salvage her bored marriage.
Director: Hidehiro Itô | Stars: Ryoko Watanabe, Serina Nishikawa, Tatsuya Nanjô, Mizuho Nakagawa
Votes: 176
32. My Daughter Is Missing (2017 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Action, Thriller
Sara, a former hacker and now an Internet security specialist, has come to Belgrade to attend a conference on cyber crime. While she is there her daughter and a college friend are kidnapped... See full summary »
Director: Tamar Halpern | Stars: Miranda Raison, Emmett J Scanlan, Sophie Robertson, Jovana Stojiljkovic
Votes: 292
33. The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 757
34. Chaos (2001)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Crime
One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into the lives of a bourgeois, modern-but-conventional couple. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the ... See full summary »
Director: Coline Serreau | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot, Rachida Brakni, Line Renaud
Votes: 2,486 | Gross: $0.21M
35. Boys Cry (2018)
95 min | Crime, Drama
Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school and struggle with occasional odd jobs to ... See full summary »
Directors: Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo | Stars: Andrea Carpenzano, Matteo Olivetti, Milena Mancini, Massimiliano Tortora
Votes: 1,965
36. 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
37. East End Hustle (1976)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Cindy, an ex-prostitute rescues Marianne, one of her pimp's potential new recruits and a deadly rivalry begins.
Director: Frank Vitale | Stars: Andrée Pelletier, Anne-Marie Provencher, Miguel Fernandes, Allan Moyle
Votes: 171
38. Final Stop (2016)
22 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
A last stop for gas before entering America's desert wasteland turns a family dream vacation into a small town nightmare for a teenage girl and her parents as they all become victims of a human trafficking ring.
Director: Bobby Bosko Grubic | Stars: Jenny Robinson, Keira McCarthy, Miraj Grbic, Enrique Almeida
Votes: 27
39. They Were So Young (1954)
Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A model agency in Rio de Janeiro is actually a front for a white-slavery ring that kidnaps European women and sells them on the South American sex market.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Scott Brady, Johanna Matz, Raymond Burr, Ingrid Stenn
Votes: 233
40. Club de femmes (1936)
81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a USA PCA seal-of-approval for this French-film, but New York City's 55th Playhouse played it ... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Deval | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Josette Day, Valentine Tessier, Else Argal
Votes: 139
41. White Cargo (1996)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Joe Hargatay is a police detective who works just for the fun of it, investigating a murder that leads him into a dangerous underground world of drugs, models, models as escorts, Asian and Italian mobs, and his ex-wife.
Director: Daniel Reardon | Stars: David Bradley, Shannon Tweed, Lydie Denier, Grace Del Rey
Votes: 118
42. Witch (2019)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A single mother, expert in black magic, is forced to use her powers when a prostitution ring kidnaps her daughter.
Director: Marcelo Páez Cubells | Stars: Erica Rivas, Leticia Brédice, Pablo Rago, Rita Cortese
Votes: 123
43. Rebekah (1996)
Comedy
Rebecca is a struggling actress who ends up working as an assistant to a high class female pimp called Mandy. Shehas feelings for Rebecca, but has a secret that she cannot tell her.
Directors: Tin Yiu Ma, Wai-Chu Lee | Stars: Cammy Choi, Suet-Man Lee, Gwan Chin, Yuk Yin Siu
Votes: 49
44. International Prostitution (1980)
88 min | Drama
A woman is involved in a prostitution ring and is pursued by a French police inspector.
Director: Sergio Gobbi | Stars: Laura Gemser, Jean-Louis Broust, Gabriele Tinti, Joëlle Guillaud
Votes: 55
45. 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
46. In This Tricky Life (2001)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa ... See full summary »
Director: Beatriz Flores Silva | Stars: Mariana Santangelo Goldman, Silvestre, Josep Linuesa, Andrea Fantoni
Votes: 540
47. La Gunguna (2015)
TV-MA | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The stories behind a .22 caliber pistol that brings bad luck and misfortune to any person that takes possession of it.
Director: Ernesto Alemany | Stars: Gerardo Mercedes, Wasen Ou, Jalsen Santana, Isaac Saviñón
Votes: 441
48. Three Golden Serpents (1969)
R | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Madame Kim Soo is a respected benefactor to social causes in Thailand, but she enjoys viewing Muay-Thai matches with a handsome male escort. Jo Walker and his friend Tom Rowland notice her ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Mauri | Stars: Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Monica Pardo, Loni Heuser
Votes: 160
49. Cargaison blanche (1937)
100 min | Drama
Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Jules Berry, Suzy Prim, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Votes: 112
50. Fear Effect (2000 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Crime
In this cyberpunk survival horror game, a team of three mercenaries led by former prostitute Hana must locate the missing daughter of a Hong Kong triad boss, a girl supposedly destined to bring about the end of the world.
Director: John Zuur Platten | Stars: Elyse Dinh, Braeden Marcott, Anthony De Longis, Rob Monroe
Votes: 244