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2) Sold
Author
Language
English
Description
When she is tricked by her stepfather and sold into prostitution, thirteen-year-old Lakshmi becomes submerged in a nightmare where her only comfort is the friendship she forms with the other girls, which helps her survive and eventually escape.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
When an injury leaves her husband unable to work, and her family faces foreclosure on their home, a former beauty queen is forced to take a job in a massage parlor. She soon realizes that it's a front for a high-end call girl operation, one so lucrative, she can't afford to turn it down. But when the parlor is raided, she must either cooperate with the police and give up her clients' identities, or lose everything she tried so hard to save.
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
As nations around the globe attempt to fight sex trafficking, many consider legalizing prostitution. Two filmmakers travel across ten countries to explore the issue, attempting to answer the question: “How can we prevent sexual exploitation before it happens in the first place?” Though governments are getting better at prosecuting traffickers and providing aftercare to victims, it is time we begin to ask the question of what lies at the root.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Sex Trade is a study of the contemporary sex trade, a true global industry, both online and off. Part investigative report and part editorial, the film is a foray into a brutal world where key players claim prostitution is simply a service like any other. But who benefits? High-end and street prostitution, escort agencies, massage parlors, strip clubs, the porn industry, sex tourism - the sex trade is sprawling, and has even spread beyond major...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
None
Description
The naive daughter of a prosperous pharmacist is made pregnant by her father's assistant. To preserve family honor, she is sent to a repressive reform school from which she escapes. On her own, she is directed to a brothel where she becomes liberated.
8) Queen Kelly
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A gothic romance in which a convent girl is seduced by a prince and inherits a brothel in Africa before he finds her again.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Bess, a pious, young Scottish woman, prays to God to send her husband, Jan, home from his job on an offshore oil rig. When an accident sends him home paralyzed, she's filled with guilt and submits to his wish that she take on other lovers, convinced that this will aid in his recovery.
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
While settlers were drawn out West by the often empty promises of the Gold Rush, prostitution grew and flourished within the mining camps, small towns, and cities of the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountain region. Whether escaping a bad home life, lured by false advertising, or seeking to subsidize their income, thousands of women chose or were forced to enter an industry where they faced segregation and persecution, fines and jailing, and battled the...
11) The duchess
Author
Language
English
Description
Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. At eighteen she is her father's closest, most trusted child, schooled in managing their grand estate. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Each year thousands of young girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in the sex industry in neighboring Thailand. Held for years in debt bondage in illegal Thai brothels, they suffer extreme abuse by pimps, clients, and the police. The trafficking of Burmese girls has soared in recent years as a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human rights abuses, war and ethnic discrimination has displaced hundreds of thousands of...
14) Whores' glory
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Thai
Description
Whores' glory, the third film in Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy (following Megacities, Workingman's death), is an explicit and unflinching exposé of global prostitution. Glawogger's latest larger-than-life documentary is an audacious, non-judgmental study of sexuality, politics, human behavior and the effects of capital and religion on both women and men from starkly different cultures.
Series
Criterion collection volume 512
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Tells the story of Nana, a young mother who leaves her family behind to pursue an acting career, but instead slips into a life of prostitution on the streets of Paris.
Series
Criterion collection volume 512
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
Follows Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress, but a downward spiral forces her into prostitution.
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Exploring the sex trade in America from 1850 to 1920 through perspectives from archaeologists and historians, this volume expands the geographic and thematic scope of research on the subject, helping create an inclusive and nuanced view of social relations in United States history"--
18) Out of the Easy
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
19) Bezness
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Bezness takes place in one of Tunisia's beautiful coastline tourist cities. it tells the contemporary story of a young man trapped between Arab tradition and prostitution. Through this young man who dreams of escape, the Director, Nouri Bouzid, criticizes both the restrictions associated with what he calls "the hypocrisy of Islam" and the European ruling on Arab society.
20) Who Cares
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this cinema vérité documentary, director Rosie Dransfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex trade workers where, in a post-Pickton era, women now voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future postmortem identification.
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