Two social workers reach breaking point with the heartless welfare system which treats destitute children as criminals. Reaching out to these children means entering into the world of drain kids, pinball parlour pimps, graffiti gangs, the 14-year-old dealers and their 12-year-old customers. It's an exhausting and sometimes dangerous occupation but they care about the kids with a passion and the successes make it all worthwhile..
Undercover cop Frank Adams & his female martial artists attempt to stop The Phantom's spree of cop killing and take back the streets from the gangs..
After her gangster boyfriend Walkie Pie skips town to evade a murder rap, beautiful Tung Yen hooks up with a wealthy nightclub owner, Brother Man, only to have her ex return with guns blazing..
Angels of the Street or The Angel of St. Pauli is a 1969 West German crime film directed by Jürgen Roland and starring Horst Frank, Herbert Fux and Werner Pochath. It is set in the St. Pauli red light district of the port of Hamburg..
Its about three women fighting for social justice in an African-American church in Philadelphia. We follow head cook Mamie, former Black Panther Barbara and Pastor Renee at the soup kitchen of the Church of the Advocate. When a Mexican immigrant, Carmela, asks the church for sanctuary, she and her children are welcomed with open arms. Pastor Renee courageously defies the ICE immigration authorities in an act of civil disobedience. A documentary about compassion that invites us to forget about all borders, be they of race, nationality or religion..
Grandmother-type provides structure in the lives of orphaned/abandoned children..
Myeong-ja, a flower vendor in Seoul, and her young brother Yong-pil, are orphans who have been taken in by some very bad people. Yong-pil finds refuge in a private orphanage and Myeong-ja takes her chances with a flower customer..
In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, try to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller..
A family living in a large villa on Fereshte Street in Tehran faces new problems and troubles when the owner of the house, the uncle of the family, returns with his Indian wife and his decision to sell the house..
Le corps de Gisèle, 20 ans, est découvert caché dans un buisson. Tout porte à croire qu'elle a été assassinée. Issue d'un milieu bourgeois aisée, elle se livrait secrètement à la prostitution. Vice ou nécessité ? Chargé de résoudre l'affaire, le lieutenant Varale enquête avec son plus proche collaborateur sur le réseau de prostitution dans lequel la victime travaillait. Les collègues de Gisèle sont interrogées, tout comme le maquereau de la jeune femme qui, devant les enquêteurs, se fait passer pour le fiancé. Pendant ce temps, une prostituée est battue à mort et violée par quatre hommes. Avant de la sodomiser contre son gré, l'un d'entre eux refusa de mettre un préservatif suite à la demande de la jeune fille. L'organisation qui gère le réseau de prostitution et la traite des blanches décide de se venger... Alors qu'un maniaque sexuel sévit dans les sous-bois où se vendent les filles, l'inspecteur Varale s'intéresse à un réalisateur de films pornographiques....
