An underage stripper in a seedy club is forced into a public sex show to repay a debt to her menacing owner.
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A young woman from the Atlanta projects pursues her dream of becoming a top stripper at a rough club, navigating the gritty realities of the industry.
A 15-year-old high school student is drawn into sexual encounters with her older teacher and family, trading sex for financial support.
A poor high school girl is recruited by an older woman into the high-end escort business and begins her training.
A teenage girl raised by her sex-worker mother is drawn into the family trade when her school crush shows up as a client.
A teenage girl secretly has sex with her English teacher for money to support her impoverished family while her mother is hospitalized.
A young biracial woman in Baltimore recounts her turbulent childhood raised by an absent father, drug-addicted mother, and devoted aunt who died of cancer.
A destitute 1930s Louisiana teen is pushed into prostitution by her mother to escape poverty, chronicling her transformation into a successful courtesan.
A recovering young man returns home from hospital and reasserts himself with his girlfriend after weeks of forced restraint.
A teenage boy is paired with his twelve-year-old neighbor Clara during a group overnight gathering in a garage, where couples engage in sex.
A 17-year-old girl juggles three jobs and an alcoholic mother's demands while daydreaming about a better life and finding love.
A dyslexic twelve-year-old boy growing up on a poverty-stricken housing estate recounts his troubled life and gang initiation among the Dead Heads.
An autobiographical-style gritty coming-of-age tale of a dyslexic boy joining a gang on a violent housing estate to survive.
An autobiographical account of teenage gang structure, hierarchy, and drug corner operations on a British housing estate.
A young man returns home after attacking a stranger, confronting his grief over a lost loved one while bonding with his father on a bleak housing estate.
A bastard son of a king returns from years of travel to find his kingdom in decline and must survive as a lowly laborer while hiding his royal blood.
A desperate young match seller in a grim historical setting encounters an adult man who offers him money for sex.
A drug-addicted young man, already exploring crossdressing, descends deeper into addiction and begins seeking paid encounters with trans women to fund his habit.
An overlooked small-town girl catches the eye of a troubled young man from an abusive, alcoholic household.
A broke older brother living in a chicken coop is taken charge of by his younger sister.