The outline of a woman's nipples can be seen through her shirt.

(Forced) prostitution is the movie's theme, and it shows a lot of that in an explicit way. Many scenes contain (male on female as well as female on female) sexual intercourse, for money or taken by force.

(Sexual) sadism is featured in an excruciatingly strong fashion. Several scenes of rape, but no nudity. There is thrusting and screaming.

Only one scene of nudity, where two women are briefly topless.

Two prostitutes talk about their work and their clients in an explicit fashion.

A man threatens to burn a woman's eye with a cigarette.

Hope Lost's take on sexual, physical and psychological violence is relentless. The movie switches from solid drama to horror about halfway through.

The movie contains several major rape scenes, the victim a forced prostitute. Once the victim is a woman who is captured.

A man prepares to force a woman to undergo an abortion by a crude and dangerous means.

The prostitutes are beaten regularly.

A pimp beats up an unruly client.

Several criminals are shot or cut. Some are fatal.

It is heavily implied the female soldier once caused the death of an interogatee, with graphic flashbacks.

Damn, fuck, Hell, shit, ass, bitch and bastard all appear.

People are drinking at a club. A man drinks with a bottle chilling on his table.

A group of men at a table drink liquor and smoke cigarettes while talking.

A man shoots up a drug in his arm.

Women are forced to be injected with drugs. The drug is shown being prepared.

Regular drinking and smoking are shown several times throughout.

The ending is especially intense and frightening.

Several acts of violence - unsparingly shown - are very difficult to watch and make the movie wander down the road from serious drama to horror flick.

The pimp's malice and his accomplices' total disregard for the two women becomes quite intense.

The psychological terror Sofia and Alina are exposed to is extremely intense.

Hope Lost contains a lot of highly intensive and frightening scenes, including rape, torture and emotional crippledom due to traumatising experiences.