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Plot Summary:
1965, Dominican Republic. At a seaside brothel, the lives of a group of prostitutes take a dramatic turn when freedom fighters stage a revolutionary coup, making them realise they can have a better life and perhaps find love. But everything changes when the US army supresses the revolution and takes the brothel as a military base: the girls will have to face the dilemma of either sleeping with the enemy or protecting their dignity at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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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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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, captivating, suspense, psychological, explicit, transgressive
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 171
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
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Duration: 88 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 669
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 495
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 568
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 241
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IMDB Votes: 582
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Set in the Greek highlands, the story presents a violent, domineering man who deals in the trafficking of emigrants and young, Balkan prostitutes. Addicted to drugs and mentally unstable, the man's teenage daughter Fanny succumbs to her father's violence and ends up working for him as a prostitute. The man also wishes to prostitute his young son, the immature Christos, who is dominated by his father's violence and engages in suicidal behavior. There is a special bond between brother and sister, who have only each other, yet no one admits this. Fanny falls apart day by day but the father maintains his reign as Christos, however, resists. "But in the kingdom of the father, the last word belongs to the king," according to the director.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 97
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 228
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 84
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 565
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 213
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IMDB Votes: 60
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 498
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IMDB Votes: 617
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
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IMDB Votes: 540
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IMDB Votes: 3000
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