Set in Victorian London, a young aristocrat, Jack Armstrong, is desperate to win the love of his beloved, the greedy Lady Alice Faversham. Jack buys an insane asylum to turn into a "love nest", unaware that Jack the Ripper still lives there.
Nordvest est l’un des quartiers multiethniques les plus pauvres de Copenhague. Casper, jeune homme de 18 ans, y vit avec sa mère, son petit frère et sa petite sœur. Il s’acharne à joindre les deux bouts en vendant des biens volés à l’un des chefs des gangs du quartier. Quand le crime organisé arrive à Nordvest, la hiérarchie au sein du quartier change et Casper y voit une chance de monter en grade. Bientôt, il est projeté dans un monde de drogues, de violence et de prostitution entraînant son frère dans son sillage. Alors que les choses s’aggravent, l’aire de jeu de leur enfance devient un champ de bataille.
Dark and tragic, the story revolves around teenager Anna (Noomi Rapace), a pretty girl from a wealthy family, who's also fiercely ambitious and dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. One day Anna decides to pack her bags and leave without telling her mother or father. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. However when she gets to the city fate has something else in store for her. Anna discovers she will soon become a mother. Later, after giving birth to baby girl, she tries to chase after her dream once again. Undoubtedly talented, She has one problem – being the single mother of a now 4-month-old baby. Though she struggles to give her daughter a good start in life, she ultimately fails to unite her dream of acting with a safe and loving environment for her child, Torn between her duties as a mother and her passion for acting and the need to earn money, Anna is driven to the limits of her patience - with tragic consequences. What follows is a downward spiral into the world of the casting couch, porn films and escort work.
In the Kingdom of Westphalia, a drunken inkeeper woman (Ljuba Welitsch), just before her death, bequeaths her inn to Susanne Delberg (Teri Tordai as Terry Torday), barring the sole beneficiary Goppelmann (Oskar Sima) from the inheritance. Goppelmann recruits the local Studentenverbindung to discredit Susanne's establishment. The tide turns when Susanne manages to seduce the student leader Anselmo (Mike Marshall) but through him, she finds herself in a conspiracy against the governor Dulce (Jacques Herlin) and the marching Grande Armée also involving her friend Ferdinand (Harald Leipnitz).
Laura is a student who works in a call centre. One day she faints in public during a lecture because she hasn't eaten enough. She is given the advice to sue her parents but her working class parents can't afford to pay more money. Little later when she is at home the energy provider cuts off the power because of overdue payments. Once the electricity is back she surfs the internet for an additional job. Eventually she ends up on a dubious website where mature men advertise in order to get to know women. She contacts a man called Joe who wants to pay her for keeping him company. When they meet she is very nervous and obviously very ashamed but her experienced suitor manages to euphemize the situation. He tells her this business is only about fantasy and nowadays everything is for sale, including fantasy fulfillment. His payment enables her to pay bills and to have a little party. She continues to meet men for money and Joe becomes a regular. But while she gets used to the money she doesn't get used to what she has to do for it. Clients overstep lines and cheat her out of her money and finally even Joe does that. Laura suffers a breakdown.
Angela Aberdeen (Ameara LaVey) is a teenage runaway that suffers from bulimia. She works as a stripper, but in order to make ends meet she begins working as a prostitute. As her bulimia worsens, Angela begins to experience a series of hallucinations where she experiences visions of the deaths of her fellow strippers as well as various others.
A romantic musical, Rajjo is the journey of a Nautch girl in the most extraordinary circumstances. It tells the love story of Rajjo (Kangana Ranaut) and Chandu (Paras Arora) set against the backdrop of the dying Kothas of Mumbai that nurtured the traditional art of singing and dancing for centuries.
Edith von Felsen est une orpheline d’un bon milieu. Invitée un jour à Londres par sa tante, elle rencontre au cours de son voyage une dame qui manifestement commence à s’intéresser beaucoup à elle. Edith ne se doute pas que cette femme ne se contente de l’écouter et veut tout savoir sur sa situation, parce qu’elle appartient à un réseau britannique de marchand de filles. On raconte à Edith que sa tante ne peut pas la prendre à Londres, et c’est donc cette connaissance de voyage bien inquiétante qui avec quelques aides prend immédiatement la jeune fille sous son aile dès son arrivée sur le sol anglais.
Les Yeux secs porte sur l'histoire d'un village berbère au Maroc uniquement habité par des femmes condamnées à offrir leurs charmes. Seuls des hommes dûment argentés peuvent y séjourner. Mais lorsque Mina, incarcérée durant vingt-cinq ans, revient, l'ordre des choses est perturbé : celle-ci ayant appris l'art du métier à tisser leur offre une nouvelle perspective… Ces femmes contraintes jusqu'ici de dissimuler douleur et honte, autrement dit d'avoir les « yeux secs », vont-elles s'émanciper, enfin, d'un destin tragique ?
Print Harris works as a bounty hunter in early 1900s America. He has a flair for conducting his killings in a theatrical or "poetic" fashion to give his profession more meaning and legitimacy. A wealthy ranch owner Mr. Paul (Brett Halsey) hires Print to eliminate a Dutch immigrant brothel owner Heinrich Kley (Dan Van Husen)who allegedly aborts the unborn children of his prostitutes, as well as to train a young ranch hand named Lee in the art of killing. Print decides to use Lee to infiltrate Kley's business and work for Kley as protection, purposefully luring a posse of cowboys into the brothel in order to murder them, and show off his usefulness. Kley immediately enlists Print to cover a wide variety of duties while entrusting him with his unique philosophy regarding business, religion, and the necessity of prostitution. Matters become complicated when Lee falls in love with one of Kley's prostitutes and informs her of the plan to murder him.
Daniela (Guida), nicknamed "Blue Jeans" after her cut-off jean shorts, is an underage streetwalker. She is caught by the police and claims that she is the illegitimate daughter of Dr. Carlo Anselmi (Paolo Carlini), a renowned restoration artist living in Latina countryside. Although Anselmi claims the opposite, Daniela's word is taken as a presumption of law and she is entrusted to Anselmi. While the frivolous behaviour of the young prostitute causes havoc with Anselmi's girlfriend Marisa (Annie Carol Edel), things get further complicated when Daniela starts to implement a plot with her pimp Sergio (Gianluigi Chirizzi).
L'intrigue suit de près la version parue dans Fotorama au printemps de la même année, 1910 : Anna, une jeune Danoise, lit dans le journal une annonce qui propose un emploi intéressant en Angleterre. Elle part donc pour Londres, laissant seul son ami Georg, bien triste de son départ. Dès la traversée en bateau, des trafiquants d’esclaves blanches jettent les yeux sur elle. Arrivés sur le sol britannique, ces hommes l’accueillent, mais à peine est-elle tombée dans leurs filets qu’elle est kidnappée et enfermée dans un bordel. Avec l'aide d'une femme de ménage qui y travaille et voit avec un malaise grandissant ce que font ces bandits, elle arrive à faire parvenir à son père une lettre. Il se rend immédiatement à la police de son pays, mais celle-ci se déclare incompétente dans une affaire qui se passe à l'étranger.