Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids fingerprintStrong craft, no humor.
Calm and low-key
Deeply moving and melancholic
Much of it is about family and growing up.
Serious throughout
Society, everyday modern life, and class and money
Lived-in and easy to get lost in.
Standout characters, direction, and performances
Standout cinematography
Calm and low-key
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids is calm and low-intensity.
Deeply moving and melancholic
Much of it is about family and growing up.
Emotionally, it's deeply moving and melancholic. Much of it is about family and growing up.
Serious throughout
Expect almost no humor.
Society, everyday modern life, and class and money
Lived-in and easy to get lost in.
Its world is built around society, everyday modern life, and class and money. The setting feels lived-in and easy to get lost in.
Standout characters, direction, and performances
The characters, direction, and performances stand out.
Standout cinematography
Look and sound: the cinematography stand out.
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Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids is included with a subscription to fuboTV in the United States. You can watch it free with ads on Hoopla, Shout! Factory TV, and Plex. You can also rent or buy it from Apple TV, Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, and Google Play Movies. All links in Where to Watch go to these licensed services.
Yes. It's widely acclaimed, with a GoodWatch score of 81/100 (IMDb 7.1, Rotten Tomatoes 95%, and Metacritic 78). The GoodWatch score combines critic and audience ratings.
It's rated R in the United States. Content advisories: disturbing imagery and sexual content.
1 h 25 min
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids runs 1 h 25 min.
Not quite. Critics rate Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids higher (87) than audiences (78). It may be more rewarding than it is crowd-pleasing.
Yes, a big one. It cost about $350,000 to make and earned $4 million worldwide, 10.1 times its budget.
It was made in English, with some Bangla. Produced in United States, India.
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