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Plot Summary:
M is the most esteemed professional of the many girls at Scarlet's but, even on her birthday, it's business as usual. M's trade is sex, but sex doesn't sell the way it used to; what clients are searching for, paying for, is love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
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From Now On (2007)
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Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 97 min
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Caged Beauties (1993)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of an oppressive revolutionary government randomly arresting unsuspecting citizens. The men are used to target practice and the women become prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
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The House (2022)
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Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, will last two years. Was writing her book an excuse for Emma to live a shameful fantasy ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min
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Prostitute (1980)
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Prostitute is the tale of two women: Sandra, an ambitious but naive Birmingham working girl who moves to London with the hope of securing wealthier patrons, and Louise, her social worker friend, who is fighting to change the antiquated and hypocritical prostitution laws. As both strive to achieve their goals, a cold dose of reality dashes their hopes, and the built-in biases against women in society are unmasked.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: controversial, independent film, cult film
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La mia preda (1990)
Plot Summary:
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
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House of 1000 Pleasures (1974)
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Marcel is a taxi driver who luckily pickups a gorgeous woman who begins to undress herself while in the back seat. Soon she leads him to a Private Club where he can pick any woman he wants to satisfy his sexual fantasies. After he enjoys a few exciting moments with 2 lovely ladies he is introduced to the many characters that make up the Private Club and begins enjoying the sexual games. The Private Club isn't all that's on Marcel's mind though as he is madly in love with Lisa who he met in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
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Fyre (1979)
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After an innocent country girl is violently raped, her family is killed in a car accident before she can come to terms with what happened. As her feelings of shame grow into self-degradation, she turns to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Girlfriend Experience (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man obsessed with prostitutes discovers that love is a lot more expensive than sex. An entertaining peek into the world of prostitution from the client's point of view.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: hot, fake documentary
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Too Much Too Often! (1968)
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When swaggering and conceited teddy boy Mike (played by fleshy-faced BUCK STARR) isn’t combing his wavy hair in a stance reminiscent of The Fonz, he’s latching onto each and every female who crosses his slimy path. The guy is bad news and has everybody fooled, except Mr. Dite (rotund BOB ORAN), an advertising executive and recent recipient of Mike’s services as a whip-wielding sadist. Taking advantage of the weak-willed masochist, Mike blackmails Dite into giving him a cushy job, then takes advantage of his new position by stealing Dite’s clients, seducing Dite’s elegant daughter, Sara (JOANNE CUNNINGHAM), and climbing his way up the social ladder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Two Faces of Love (1972)
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Eleana (played by Anna Fonsou) is a prostitute who appears to have been abused when she was younger. During her daily encounters with various clients, she meets a young labourer called Christos whom she momentarily tries to develop a normal relationship with. Old habits die hard and she soon hits the streets again but it's too late, Christos has become infatuated with Eleana and plans to marry her. Gradually, the pressure and stress of the situation starts to take it's toll on Eleana's sanity and leads to a surreal, nightmarish climax!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 125 min
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Kleinhoff Hotel (1977)
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Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies him and his ex-girl-friend through a hole. Then she follows him to a questionable place where she is arrested by the police during a revolutionists raid. When she returns to the Kleinhoff Hotel, Pascale finds Karl crying, and enters his room to console him and they have a love affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Monaco
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Madame Olga's Pupils (1981)
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Madame Olga is the owner of a luxurious brothel in London, England. One of the brothel's new clients, a young man, falls in love with her. He wishes to have more than sexual relationships with the woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)
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A girl, Marie is led into prostitution by her pimp boyfriend, Gerard. She must not only give money to him but to the gangsters that explore him as well. Marie, together with a friend, Maloup, will try to become independent. They start to work the streets on their own but they will meet physical and sexual violence. They return to the brothels, and Marie goes back to her pimp, but Gerard has his caprices and wants more and more – he's in a spiral downwards and he's leading Marie with him. There's seems to be no escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
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Hail Mary (1985)
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In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy, while Mary comes to terms with God's plan through meditations that are sometimes angry and usually punctuated by elemental images of the sun, moon, clouds, flowers, and water.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: avant garde, controversial, disturbing, erotic, psychedelic, spiritual, art house, mind bending, surreal, absurd
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Yellow Emmanuelle (1977)
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In this sexpolitation effort, a British pilot is assaulted by a gang of hoodlums and left on the street. He's eventually taken to a hospital, where he is nursed back to health by Dr. Emy Wong, a beautiful Asian physician. As the pilot is restored to full health, he becomes increasingly infatuated with Emy.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Joy (1983)
Plot Summary:
This is the story about Joy who falls in love with an older man (she has been looking for her missing father all her life), and then travels around Paris with him and his other female companion, experiencing a broad range of sexual encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, independent film
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Swedish Wildcats (1972)
Plot Summary:
The sadistic Madam Margareta is a talking side of beef that serves as the hostess and ring leader for a live sex tease show and whorehouse. Madam's shows always feature her bodacious nieces Susanna and Karen, who perform in everything from striptease to S&M acts. Karen meets and eventually runs away with a rich guy. Susanna falls in love with a deceptive airport cargo handler. After several more kinky shows and various soft core sex scenes, Karen is gone and Susanna and her man find out the truth behind each others lies.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, psychotronic, cult film
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Satisfaction (2007)
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Set in and around 232, an up-market city brothel, Satisfaction reveals the world of five high class escorts and their manager as they juggle the pressures of their private lives with their secret profession.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: erotic, realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, sexy, sensual, serious, sexual
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The Wife Swappers (1970)
Plot Summary:
Six stories involving wife and husband swapping/swinging, are described in titillating detail while analyzed by a pseudo psychologist.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, anthology, grindhouse, sensual, erotic, independent film
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Country Hooker (1974)
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A couple of musicians are on their way to a show at a country bar. Along the way, they pick up a couple of sexy hitchhiking ladies and decide to pull over for a pitstop. Eventually, they make it to the bar and uncover that the deep voiced country singer that also plays there is also a pimp who uses the "waitresses" to make him some extra cash. It is up to our musician heroes to put an end to the singer and his operation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Plot Summary:
A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, rough, intense, social, tense, period piece, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Life (2004)
Plot Summary:
An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, thought provoking, realistic, rough, serious, sexual, semi documentary, independent film, sexy, hot
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Whore (1991)
Plot Summary:
This melodrama investigates the life of a prostitute in a pseudo-documentary style.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, harsh, sincere, serious, bleak, sexy, controversial, stylized, sexual, independent film
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Monika (1974)
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Monika is young, beautiful and a virgin. She is only 16 years old, and, beside getting the attention of all her classmates, she also attracts older men. She has a relationship with a boy, Leo, but she doesn't know that he uses to pimp the girls he seduces to rich businessmen. One of Leo's client befriends Monika and becomes so obsessed that he pays Leo to get her. But Monika turns her attention to her art professor, unknowing that he too has his secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy, sensual, sexploitation film
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Maid in Sweden (1971)
Plot Summary:
Maid in Sweden tells the story of Inga, a 16-year-old Swedish girl who leaves her rural home to spend a weekend in the Swedish capital. An innocent with no experience, but with prodigious physical attributes, she has a series of romantic adventures as she throws off the frustrations of her small-town environment.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sexual, grindhouse, sensual, erotic, touching, serious, realistic, independent film, sexy
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Schoolgirl Report Part 8: What Parents Must Never Know (1974)
Plot Summary:
Tis is the 8th part of series. Another story based on what real-life German teenagers schoolgirls of the day were up to.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, fake documentary
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Paprika (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. "Paprika" is the name given to her by the madam.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, romantic, controversial, manga, art house, cult classic, crying, disgusting
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Breaking the Waves (1996)
Plot Summary:
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Spain, UK
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, emotional, psychological, erotic, depressing, art house, touching
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Pretty Baby (1978)
Plot Summary:
Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet (Brooke Shields). When Violet is brought on as a working girl by her mother's madam and Hattie skips town to get married, Violet quickly loses her innocence and focuses on reuniting with Bellocq. But a life with Bellocq is compromised for Violet after her mother returns to town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: controversial, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric, melancholic, thought provoking, sentimental, stylized, erotic, romantic
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Love Strange Love (1982)
Plot Summary:
Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important political changes in Brazil, in 1937. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, weird