Made in Germany as Mädchenhandel lohnt sich nicht, this is a black-and-white dive into the gutter that feels like it was filmed in the shadow of a rainy alleyway. We’ve got a plot that would make a grindhouse theater owner weep with joy: shady characters luring women to parties, drugging them and peddling them off for cold hard cash and fixes.

According to a reviewer on Letterboxd, in the German version, the nude scenes have been surgically removed. In their place? An off-screen ballad-singing duo who pipes up like a Greek chorus of morality. They don’t just sing; they warn the audience about the soul-crushing reality of trafficking and, at times, literally narrate exactly what is happening on screen as if we’ve suddenly gone blind.

This has a lot and maybe it all, like a street preacher who is screaming about the end of the world, slapflights, an evil boat nightclub, a bad guy named Pretty Boy who is surrounded by women who love him, a cop named Oscar who hangs people by their ankles, a one-eyed bad guy named Willie, big French hair and all dubbed dialogue.

This was directed by Jean-Pierre Bastid, whose book Laissez bronzer les cadavres! was filmed as Let the Corpses Tan. He also directed an erotic horror movie called Hallucinations sadiques and the mondo Les teenagers.

You can watch this on YouTube.