Por cinco anos, o jovem Takumi, de 18 anos, todas as manhãs sai para fazer entregas no ultrapassado Toyota AE86. Não só ele se tornou um excelente piloto, mas também, aperfeiçoou a arte da derrapagem. Ele jamais havia participado de alguma corrida, até que seu pai o obriga a dirigir seu Toyota AE86, em uma batalha de Davi contra Golias, contra um Mazda RX-7 FC. Uma gloriosa, porém inesperada vitória desperta os genes da competição nele, enquanto sua fama inesperada o leva a difíceis corridas, uma após a outra, cada uma mais perigosa e excitante que a outra.
A filha de uma prostituta é criada em um bordel, onde cuida do seu irmão e se prepara para seguir os passos da mãe. Com doze anos tem sua virgindade leiloada e logo depois se casa com um fotógrafo bem mais velho do que ela.
Sam foi expulso de todas as escolas do país. Quando ele descobre que a sua mãe já não pode dar-se ao luxo de mantê-lo na escola que ele e os seus amigos frequentam, estes começam o seu serviço de escolta própria, para ajudar a pagar a sua mensalidade...
Este ganhador do Oscar® mostra a vida das crianças do bairro da Luz Vermelha, em Calcutá. O aparente enriquecimento da Índia deixa de lado os menos favorecidos. Neste contexto, os menos privilegiados são as crianças filhas de prostitutas do bairro mais pobre da cidade. Porém, ainda há esperanças. Os documentaristas Zana Briski e Ross Kauffman procuram essas crianças e munidos de câmeras fotográficas pedem para eles fazerem retratos de tudo que lhes chama a atenção. Os resultados são emocionantes. E enquanto as crianças vão descobrindo essa nova forma de se expressar, os cineastas lutam para poder dar mais esperança e uma vida melhor a essas crianças, para as quais a pobreza é a maior ameaça à realização dos sonhos.
Lilet Never Happened is the rollercoaster story of how a young girl, struggling to survive in the streets of Manila, spirals down into child prostitution. She is a fighter. She is a dreamer. She is a rebel and she thinks she can handle the world with her wits. But she has to face up to reality when she runs out of innocent dreams.
Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
Two prostitutes, Barbara and Jill, and their friend, Tony, escape a zombie attack in a 1971 Cadillac; but, unfortunately, Tony has been bitten and it is just a matter of time he turns into a zombie and chaos unleashes around.
Rapazes tranquilos de dia, reis de noite. O filme segue um grupo de jovens ciganos búlgaros que vêm a Viena em busca de liberdade e dinheiro rápido. Eles vendem seus corpos como se isso fosse tudo o que têm. O que os conforta, tão longe de casa, é a sensação de estarem juntos. Mas as noites são longas e imprevisíveis.
Thanks to his wife Madeleine, a social worker who saved him from the street when he was 17-years-old, Pierre Dalpé has become a prosperous entrepreneur, running a garbage-collection business in the Montreal area. His quiet happiness with his wife and their children changes when he crosses paths with Eve, a teenage drug addict/prostitute who belongs to a street gang. At the risk of destroying everything he’s built up, Pierre decides to make it his mission to help Eve get out of her unhealthy situation before she dies of an overdose, like his sister did. But in doing so, he has to confront his old demons, to Madeleine’s despair, as she feels him slipping farther away from her every day.
An affluent city is covered in snow, all seems perfect – on the surface. Divorcé Rolf is doing his best to rebuild his relationship with his daughter. Pregnant Lena appears to be living a faultless family life with her husband and son. Social worker Judith has a tough job and escapes it through her fantasies, whilst widowed Maria has finally built up the courage to invite her male acquaintance to a romantic dinner.
In the course of one day, all of them will cross paths with the Bulgarian Mia, who works in the red-light trade and their seemingly perfect lives will never be the same…
A young woman becomes pregnant but when his boyfriend leaves her she gets a job as a prostitute in order to provide for her child.
One day, hairstylist Ken went to do the bridal’s hair. Much to his surprise, he bumped into his first lover, Bobo...
A Year of Hope is about life on the streets of Manila. You will hear the horrible stories of Pablo, Justin, and some of the other boys. Thankfully their lives change during their year in Stairway Foundation. It's an NGO located on an island in the Philippines far away from Manila. They're there to get a proper education, eat nutritious food, have fun, and be introduced to new things. But sadly even in a place like Stairway, the gruesome streets of Manila are still lurking in the backs of the children's minds.
Stefano, a philosophy grad student without a future, tries to commit suicide after his girlfriend leaves him. He is saved by Giulio, a wisecracking plumber who takes him home and teaches him the tricks of the trade. When Lucia, a woman disappointed in both men and conventional jobs who has started to work as a prostitute, calls them to repair a sink, for Stefano it's love at first sight.
Nicolas, an aimless adolescent who hasn't yet found his way in life leaves his grandparent's home, hitchhikes to a small town, and befriends, Charly an outspoken and slightly older prostitute, a red-headed beauty who appears to ply her trade in the same no-nonsense way she clears the breakfast dishes. She seems to find something endearing about Nicolas' mussed hair and dopey face, so she puts him up in the teeny trailer home that she maintains with such hilarious fussiness. As their unusual domestic arrangement evolves, each stumbles vulnerably into new emotional territory.
Fast, frenetic, and furious best describe the story of five teenage boys all but abandoned by the system, estranged from any parents, and discarded by life in general. They build a world of there own in which gangs, drugs, fighting, body piercing, self-harm, and even suicide are considered commonplace. The film highlights their harrowing place in time and this small world; where brotherhood is valued above all else. Impressively acted by actual street kids, the movie highlights a gritty side of modern-day Singaporean life.
A hot young hustler finds himself in uncharted waters when he spends the night with a client who's far from the "johns" he's used to servicing.
This film is adapted from author Rong Wongsawan's best selling novel. It follows the lives, loves and lusts of men and women whose relationships start in a high class brothel 50 years. This post war story focuses on love and relationships between the brothel madam, a pimp, young prostitutes and customers that are in love with a girl but suffer because she to go with other customers to earn money, customers that marry girls and other issues.
Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
Following a young escort girl in Bangkok through portraits of her daily life, introducing the nuances of a vocation borne out of a simple necessity: supporting a family in rural Thailand.