Films on human trafficking
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1. The Whistleblower (2010)
R | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.
Director: Larysa Kondracki | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn
Votes: 35,749 | Gross: $1.12M
2. Not My Life (2011)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
Not My Life comprehensively depicts the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale. Filmed on five continents, in a dozen countries, Not My ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Bilheimer, Richard Young | Star: Glenn Close
Votes: 46
3. Redlight (2009)
72 min | Documentary
A powerful feature documentary about child sexploitation, an epidemic happening in every country around the world. Filmed over a four year period, REDLIGHT focuses on the personal stories ... See full summary »
Directors: Adi Ezroni, Guy Jacobson, Charles Kiselyak | Stars: Somaly Mam, Reena, Sokha, Srey Peuv
Votes: 76
4. The Jammed (2007)
89 min | Drama, Thriller
A thriller about trafficking, governmental deportation and the sex slave trade in Melbourne.
Director: Dee McLachlan | Stars: Emma Lung, Veronica Sywak, Saskia Burmeister, Sun Park
Votes: 871
6. Call + Response (2008)
PG-13 | 86 min | Documentary, History, Music
Fair Trade Pictures to support human rights activism against human trafficking and slavery on a community level.
Director: Justin Dillon | Stars: Madeleine Albright, Kevin Bales, David Batstone, Natasha Bedingfield
Votes: 75 | Gross: $0.22M
7. Trade (I) (2007)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Adriana, 13, is kidnapped in Mexico City by Russian sex traffickers. Her criminal 17 y.o. brother starts looking for her. Across the border in Texas, he gets help from a cop.
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner | Stars: Kevin Kline, Kathleen Gati, Paulina Gaitan, Cesar Ramos
Votes: 17,936 | Gross: $0.21M
8. Cargo: Innocence Lost (2008)
75 min | Drama
A documentary that exposes the underworld of sex trafficking of women and children in the United States.
Director: Michael Cory Davis | Stars: Elen Koleva, Jonas Talkington, George Zlatarev
Votes: 15
9. The Gatekeeper (2002)
R | 103 min | Drama
A racist, bitter U.S. Border Patrol Agent moonlighting with a vigilante group goes undercover posing as a Mexican migrant worker in an effort to expose an illegal alien smuggling operation.
Director: John Carlos Frey | Stars: John Carlos Frey, Michelle Agnew, Anne Betancourt, Joel Brooks
Votes: 229 | Gross: $0.31M
10. Modern Slavery (2009)
108 min | Documentary
There's 27 million slaves in the world today. We find them in the sex industry, as child soldiers, as unpaid housekeepers and in production and as shop workers. We have all a responsibility for this.
Directors: Tina Davis, Thomas Robsahm | Stars: Kevin Bales, Joseph Stiglitz, Sylvie O'Dy, Jan Egeland
Votes: 96
11. Not for Sale (2007)
116 min | Documentary
A two-part documentary on the global problem of human trafficking and the modern-day abolitionists who are fighting it based on the book, Not For Sale, by David Batstone.
Director: Robert Marcarelli
13. All the Invisible Children (2005)
124 min | Drama
Through the plights of seven different children, seven cruel destinies unfold, as the unknown innocents who share the same sensitivities and desires struggle for survival, understanding--and above all--love, in an apathetic grown-up world.
Directors: Mehdi Charef, Emir Kusturica, Spike Lee, Kátia Lund, Jordan Scott, Ridley Scott, Stefano Veneruso, John Woo | Stars: Adama Bila, Elysée Rouamba, Rodrigue Ouattara, Uros Milovanovic
Votes: 4,282
14. Human Trafficking (2005)
13+ | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Girls that have been kidnapped a d sold as slaves, police find and help them back to their home and family.
Stars: Robert Carlyle, Mira Sorvino, Donald Sutherland, Anna Hopkins
Votes: 7,156
15. Maria Full of Grace (2004)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.
Director: Joshua Marston | Stars: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Guilied Lopez, Orlando Tobón, Virginia Cristina Ariza
Votes: 36,181 | Gross: $6.52M
16. Svetlana's Journey (2004)
40 min | Short, Drama
The chilling true story of a 13 year old girl who is held captive for 8 months by pimps after being sold and trafficked by her adopted parents for sex slavery.For public exhibition, (... See full summary »
Director: Michael Cory Davis | Stars: Gergana Djikelova, Maxim Genchev, Elvira Ivanova, Violeta Markovska
Votes: 65
17. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)
R | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, News
Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
Directors: Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman | Stars: Kochi, Avijit Halder, Shanti Das, Manik
Votes: 18,003 | Gross: $3.41M
18. Human Cargo (2004)
Drama
A riveting thriller shot on location in Vancouver and South Africa, HUMAN CARGO is an unflinching look at the world of refugees in the post 9/11 world and of the people who sacrifice their ... See full summary »
Stars: Nthati Moshesh, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Veena Sood, Wright Ngubeni
Votes: 118
19. Fields of Mudan (2004)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Drama
A young Asian girl, Mudan, is forced into modern day slavery by a brutal child brothel owner. Mudan soon befriends another young girl in the brothel, and starts dreaming of a better life with her mother in America.
Director: Stevo Chang | Stars: Nicole Nishimoto, Shannon Lu, Yaping, Lawrence Sykkmon
Votes: 105
20. Sex Traffic (2004)
189 min | Crime, Drama
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.... See full summary »
Stars: Len Cariou, Maury Chaykin, Luke Kirby, Robert Joy
Votes: 1,546
21. Promised Land (2004)
88 min | Drama, Thriller
"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 ... See full summary »
Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Diana Bespechni, Hanna Schygulla, Anne Parillaud
Votes: 597
22. The Day My God Died (2003)
R | 70 min | Documentary
Filmed in Nepal and India this documentary presents the stories of young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex slave trade. The film provides actual footage from inside the... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Levine | Stars: Anuradha Koirala, Tim Robbins, Winona Ryder
Votes: 258
23. Dying to Leave (2003 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary
Dying to Leave is a two-part series exploring one of the shadows of globalisation- the current worldwide boom in illicit human smuggling and human trafficking. Every year, an estimated ... See full summary »
Directors: Chris Hilton, Aaron Woolf | Star: Rachael Blake
Votes: 8
24. Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama
Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharskiy, Pavel Ponomaryov, Lyubov Agapova
Votes: 49,381 | Gross: $0.18M
25. Trading Women (2003)
Documentary
Director: David A. Feingold | Stars: Autumn Dornfeld, Angelina Jolie, Michael Nathanson, Rebecka Ray
Votes: 123
26. Anonymously Yours (2002)
90 min | Documentary
"Anonymously Yours" is the outcome of a daring filmmaking operation on sex-trafficking in a military state where nothing is as it seems. Four Burmese women's strikingly different life ... See full summary »
Director: Gayle Ferraro
Votes: 35
27. Bucharest Express (2004)
Thriller
An American journalist, a mysterious Gypsy woman and a bookkeeper with an inside angle try to stay one step ahead of a gang of ruthless killers as they uncover the horrors of the human trafficking of sex slaves in the Balkans.
Director: Chuck Portz | Stars: Igor Guzun, Vera Maryanchik, Roland Muldoon
Votes: 7
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