Human Trafficking

2005

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 87% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 87% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 7447 7.4K

Plot summary

Hundreds of thousands of young women have vanished from their everyday lives-forced by violence into a hellish existence of brutality and prostitution. They're a profitable commodity in the multi-billion-dollar industry of modern slavery. The underworld calls them human traffic...—Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

Director

Christian Duguay Photo
Christian Duguay

Top cast

Donald Sutherland Photo
Donald Sutherland as Meehan 4 episodes, 2005
Robert Carlyle Photo
Robert Carlyle as Sergei 4 episodes, 2005
Mira Sorvino Photo
Mira Sorvino as Kate 4 episodes, 2005
Isabelle Blais Photo
Isabelle Blais as Helena 4 episodes, 2005
480p.BluRay
679.2 MB
720*480
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
N/A
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 9 / 10

The Profitable Slavery of the Twentieth-First Century

In Prague, Czech Republic, the single mother Helena (Isabelle Blais) is seduced by a successful handsome man and travels with him to spend a weekend in Vienna, Austria; in Kiev, Ukraine, the sixteen-year-old Nadia (Laurence Leboeuf) is selected by a model agency and travels to the United States with the other selected candidates; in Manila, Philippines, the twelve-year-old American tourist Annie Gray (Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse) is abducted in front of her parents. In common, the girls become victims of a powerful international network of sex traffickers leaded by the powerful Sergei Karpovich (Robert Carlyle). In New York, after the third death of young Eastern European prostitutes, the obstinate Russian-American NYPD agent Kate Morozov (Mira Sorvino) convinces the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Chief Bill Meehan (Donald Sutherland) to hire her, promising him that she would fight against this type of crime and that he would not regret."Human Trafficking" is the third great movie that I have watched about this sad reality. "Lilja 4-ever" and "Anjos do Sol" are extremely pessimist and realistic, but focused in the life of only one character. "Human Trafficking" gives a big picture how these gangs operate, following the drama of three lead characters. Mira Sorvino is wonderful, as usual, and her final speech about this profitable slavery of the Twentieth-First Century and the sexual tourism is very realistic and touching. The direction is excellent, the screenplay is very well written and the whole cast deserves to be congratulated for their magnificent performances. My vote is nine.Title (Brazil): "Tráfico Humano" ("Human Traficking")
Reviewed by sdod2 8 / 10

A hard to watch, non-exploitive look at an international shame

I found the movie very compelling as it followed several different story lines, exposing many different facets to the sex trafficking industry. The fact that all these story lines were linked to one king pin running an international organization was pure Hollywood, but it allowed for drama and suspense as he was tracked by the feds. The wrap up and conclusion was also too easy, but again the mission of this film was to educate and spotlight abuse in an entertaining forum. This movie delivered.On top of this, I especially appreciated the way the graphic scenes were composed. It was hard to watch, ugly, and grotesque. It wasn't played for sex appeal, or lurid fascination. It was ugly. Completely appropriate to the reality of the women, children, and victims of this abuse.
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