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While traveling to accept a position as companion to an elderly lady out West, Rachel Rainsford receives a startling note from a fellow train passenger—she's actually in the middle of a dastardly scheme to sell her as companion to a corrupt Chicago businessman. But can Rachel trust daring Chan Prescott after being deceived before? Caught in a dangerous chase with the criminals close behind, will faith—and love—be enough to save
...Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
"In this second installment of Stieg Larsson's phenomenal 'Millennium' trilogy, Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and violent behavior makes her an official danger to society. Mikael Blomkvist, Salander's friend and Millennium's publisher, is alone in his belief...
8) Prime cut
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Kansas City mobster uses a meat processing factory as a front for his drug and prostitution business. There, gangsters are ground into sausage, and women are sold like cattle. Things change, however, when Chicago tough guy Nick comes to town.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Russian émigré countess Natascha becomes a stowaway in the shipboard stateroom of U.S. diplomat Ogden in order to escape her life of forced prostitution in Hong Kong. Her plan is to blackmail her way to freedom in the States but Ogden has a mind of his own and can resist even the charms of a countess.
12) Queen Kelly
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Deluxe collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
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.
13) Belle de jour
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Subtle, erotic film about a wealthy young surgeon's wife who indulges her masochistic fantasies by working as a part-time prostitute in a Paris brothel.
Series
Criterion collection volume 512
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Follows Nana, a young Parisian who aspires to be an actress, but a downward spiral forces her into prostitution.
15) Shoes
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
©2017.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (52 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
"[This film] follows the daily travails of Eva Meyer, whose meager wages from her job at a five-and-dime store are the sole financial support for three younger sisters, a struggling mother, and a father who prefers beer and penny dreadfuls to work. When there is barely enough to cover the grocer's bill, Eva is forced to patch the holes in the soles of her shoes with cardboard. But with each rainy day and every splinter, her plight becomes more painful,...
16) Saint Jack
Series
Publisher
Concorde-New Horizons Corp
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small-time pimp with big dreams works with the pleasure palaces of late-night Singapore. It is his dream that keeps Jack Flower going and drives him into the maintstream of political corruption and intrigue.
Publisher
Picture This Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy lawyer learns that he is dying, he reacts by seeling off all his worldly possessions and paying an unannounced visit to an old friend who was a former male prostitute. Now engaged, his friend agrees to return to the streets in order to find another young hustler that the lawyer once tried to rescue.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sassy, streetwise Sammy is falling through the cracks. Neglected by an alcoholic mother, the problems she endures at school and home lead her to act out, seeking attention from unseemly adults when what she wants most is protection. Meanwhile, in a small Eastern European village, sweet Nico is about to turn 13. As her family falls upon desperate times, her father receives an offer of money to marry her off. But when she's shuttled across the border...
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
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