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51. Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography (1981)
69 min | Documentary
Documentary about the pornography industry and the apparent violent anti-woman slant much of it takes.
Director: Bonnie Sherr Klein | Stars: Linda Lee Tracey, Bonnie Sherr Klein, Suze Randall, Kate Millett
Votes: 313
52. I, Desire (1982 TV Movie)
120 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A Los Angeles student working as a coroner's assistant falls in love with a strange young woman.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: David Naughton, Dorian Harewood, Marilyn Jones, Barbara Stock
Votes: 273
53. The Adult Entertainment Expo (2007 TV Movie)
Documentary, Action
Coverage of the 2007 Adult Entertainment Exposition, a convention for the adult entertainment industry.
Director: Jesse Selwyn | Stars: Kami Andrews, Lisa Ann, Cody Bangs, Cynthia Boris
Votes: 15
54. Verified Couple (2022)
73 min | Documentary
Andreea and Nico made a fortune as "Verified Couple" on porn websites. Now they live their dream under palm trees in the tax haven state of Cyprus. But how does it look off the stage?
Director: Joscha Bongard | Stars: Nico Nice, Jamie Young, Sylvia Sadzinski, Andreas Baranowski
Votes: 149
55. Onna bakari no yoru (1961)
93 min | Drama
A prostitute tries to change her life after the enforcement of an anti-prostitution law.
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Chisako Hara, Akemi Kita, Kyôko Kagawa, Chikage Awashima
Votes: 318
56. Happy Endings? (2009)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary
An intriguing exploration of the Asian massage parlor industry in Providence, RI, where a 25 year-old loophole has made the exchange of sex for money legal - as long as it happens behind ... See full summary »
Director: Tara Hurley | Stars: David Cicilline, Steven Brown, Joanne Giannini, Donna M. Hughes
Votes: 20
57. Back Alley (2014)
29 min | Short, Drama
Suzanne has been a prostitute for 15 years. She has her turf, her regular johns, her freedom. One day, young African prostitutes settle nearby. Suzanne is threatened.
Director: Cécile Ducrocq | Stars: Laure Calamy, Bruce Chatirichvili, Kevin Kugler, Solange Pinturier
Votes: 54
58. Utopia (1983)
198 min | Drama
A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them ... See full summary »
Director: Sohrab Shahid Saless | Stars: Manfred Zapatka, Imke Barnstedt, Gundula Petrovska, Gabriele Fischer
Votes: 356
59. Remedy (I) (2013)
120 min | Drama
A young woman must confront her physical and emotional boundaries as she enters the world of professional domination and submission.
Director: Cheyenne Picardo | Stars: Kira Davies, Ashlie Atkinson, Julia Ubrankovics, Melissa Roth
Votes: 214
60. Until Porn Do Us Part (2018)
89 min | Documentary
Eulália, a conservative 65-year-old mother, finds out that her son who emigrated to Germany became Fostter Riviera, the internationally awarded first Portuguese gay porn actor. From shock ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Pelicano | Stars: Eulália Almeida, Fostter Riviera, Filomena Gigante
Votes: 214
61. Dorothea's Rache (1974)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Dorothea, a 16-year-old bourgeois girl from Hamburg, plays with her friends of both sexes, imitating the production of adult movies. In the end, pretending to make sex-scenes is not ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Fleischmann | Stars: Anna Henkel-Grönemeyer, Alexander von Paczensky, Gerhard Gommel, Henry Beuck
Votes: 285
62. The Whores (1994)
85 min | Drama
Orlanda, Liuccia, Milù, Blu Blu and Veronica live all in Palermo. And they all are prostitutes (Buttane). We can see them spending their days among clients and desperation. Some got ... See full summary »
Director: Aurelio Grimaldi | Stars: Ida Di Benedetto, Guia Jelo, Lucia Sardo, Sandra Sindoni
Votes: 163
63. Magdalena Viraga (1986)
90 min | Drama
Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East L.A, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp.
Director: Nina Menkes | Stars: Claire Aguilar, Nora Bendich, Dave Gist, Scott Edmund Lane
Votes: 118
64. International Prostitution (1980)
88 min | Drama
A woman is involved in a prostitution ring and is pursued by a French police inspector.
Director: Sergio Gobbi | Stars: Laura Gemser, Jean-Louis Broust, Gabriele Tinti, Joëlle Guillaud
Votes: 55
65. Der letzte Zeuge (1960)
102 min | Crime
Courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid, who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to someone else... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Martin Held, Hanns Lothar, Ellen Schwiers, Jürgen Goslar
Votes: 283
66. Angels of Darkness (1954)
94 min | Drama
Tamara, a Roman prostitute, tries to kill herself throwing herself out of the window of the licensed brothel she works in. While she is being taken to hospital the other girls learn that, ... See full summary »
Director: Giuseppe Amato | Stars: Linda Darnell, Valentina Cortese, Lea Padovani, Giulietta Masina
Votes: 196
67. Rosemary (1958)
105 min | Drama
West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortune. She uses her charms to bring ... See full summary »
Director: Rolf Thiele | Stars: Nadja Tiller, Peter van Eyck, Carl Raddatz, Gert Fröbe
Votes: 512
68. La ragazza in vetrina (1961)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Italians migrate to Holland to make money in coal mining. After their first work accident, two friends make different future plans: one spends money on a weekend holiday; the other determines to return to Italy soon.
Director: Luciano Emmer | Stars: Lino Ventura, Magali Noël, Marina Vlady, Bernard Fresson
Votes: 383
69. Heartbound: A Different Kind of Love Story (2018)
90 min | Documentary
In the small northern region of Jutland, Denmark, over 900 Thai women are married to Danish men, a trend that started 25 years ago when a former sex worker from Northeastern Thailand ... See full summary »
Directors: Janus Metz, Sine Plambech
Votes: 274
70. Payboy (2021)
13 min | Short
The undocumented refugee Sabr (35) works in the Dutch illegal male prostitution. Short, gritty drama about the tragic cycle of abuse, dominance and power. Following his feature debut ... See full summary »
Director: Mees Peijnenburg | Stars: Majd Mardo, Xiomara Virdó, Steef Cuijpers, Micha Hulshof
71. Where There Is Shade (2015)
105 min | Drama
Mirinda is a 45 years French crossdresser living as a prostitute in Phnom Penh. His encounter with No Name, a young trafficked girl, gives rise to a new feeling of fatherhood.
Director: Nathan Nicholovitch | Stars: David D'Ingeo, Panna Nat, Ucoc Lai, Viri Seng Samnang
Votes: 50
72. Dreamcatcher (I) (2015)
TV-MA | 104 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
Takes us into a hidden world of prostitution and sexual trafficking through the eyes of one of its survivors, Brenda Myers-Powell.
Director: Kim Longinotto | Stars: Brenda Myers-Powell, T.T., Keena, Temeka
Votes: 433
73. Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano (2010)
105 min | Drama
A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to disintegrate.
Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Tomori Abe, Hirofumi Arai, Toyotaka Hanazawa, Natsumi Kamata
Votes: 137
74. The Miracle of Father Malachia (1961)
122 min | Comedy
A monk is struggling with the consequences of a miracle that he prayed for.
Director: Bernhard Wicki | Stars: Horst Bollmann, Richard Münch, Christiane Nielsen, Günter Pfitzmann
Votes: 87
75. She Walks by Night (1959)
101 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Inspired by the life and death of Rosemarie Nitribitt, a famous German call girl whose death caused a large scandal in the press.
Directors: Rudolf Jugert, Hugo Grimaldi | Stars: Belinda Lee, Walter Rilla, Karl Lieffen, Claus Wilcke
Votes: 72
76. Carla (2011)
100 min | Drama
Carla is a trans woman who faces opposition from her family as she finishes her transition. At the same time, she falls in love with Sam, a man who seems to love her for who she is. However... See full summary »
Director: Eli Hershko | Stars: Laverne Cox, Joslyn DeFreece, Gregg Bello, Mark Margolis
Votes: 57
77. The Highway Queen (1971)
107 min | Drama
A story of a street walker, who tries to leave the world of prostitution when she gets pregnant.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Yehuda Barkan, Gila Almagor, Miriam Bernstein-Cohen, Leah Koenig
Votes: 37
78. Beyond Ed Buck (2022)
Documentary
A Look Beyond the West Hollywood Drug Scandal.
Directors: Jayce Baron, Hailie Sahar | Stars: Hailie Sahar, Shar Jossell, Blossom C. Brown, Donta Morrison
Votes: 53
79. Human Cargo (1954)
88 min | Drama
When Mario, a bad boy, is released from prison, he plans to live honestly with his wife Geneviève. But the latter has not waited for him and Mario, out of spite, accepts to work as a tout ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Chevalier | Stars: Micheline Presle, Raymond Pellegrin, Dora Doll, René Sarvil
Votes: 88
80. Webdreams (2005–2008)
Reality-TV
Webdreams welcomes you into the world of Internet porn. Once an underground industry in Montreal, it's now a booming business of webcam girls, wannabes seeking celebrity, and entrepreneurs who have struck it rich or are hoping to do so.
Stars: Vid Vicious, Malezia Rodriguez, Violet Manson, Darrell Leon
Votes: 41
81. La muerte de Oso (2021)
25 min | Short, Drama
Saúl knows what to do to save his dog's life. However, one day he receives the call from the vet. Oso is dead. Saúl turns obsessed in getting the money to incinerate him individually, reaching extremes that he could never imagine.
Director: Cristian Sitjas | Stars: Lluís Febrer, Chap Rodriguez Rossel, Mónica Moreira, Ivan Caelles
Votes: 18
82. Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex-Trafficking (2017)
TV-14 | 79 min | Documentary, Crime
With 27 million victims worldwide, Stopping Traffic starts the conversation on a taboo topic through the eyes of survivors, activists, and front-line rescue teams to launch a movement to end modern-day slavery in the U.S. and abroad.
Director: Sadhvi Siddhali Shree | Stars: Susanne Dietzel, Carolina Douthit, Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, Mario Garfias
Votes: 138
83. Abaddon (2023)
28 min | Short, Drama
Director: Geoffroy C. Dedenis | Stars: Romi Debart, Sylvain Abelard, Léo Beauséjour, Frederik Delmonte
84. We Three Queens (2023– )
Comedy
We Three Queens is an offbeat dramedy about a broke daycare worker and his escort boyfriend who try to make ends meet, while living with a scrappy old widow. In Season One, we meet Ian, ... See full summary »
Stars: Bert Cardozo, Stephanie Herrera, Michael Brown, Vicki Kim
Votes: 10
85. Ethixxx of Desire (2023)
Short | Completed
A new dominatrix faces a moral dilemma when a client requests the ultimate act of submission.
Directors: Larena Danielle, Elyse Winn | Stars: JD Evermore, Alex Herrald, Sofia Riba, Chris Sirois
86. Shirins Hochzeit (1976 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Shirin's Wedding touches on many concepts that are still up to date, from the difficulties experienced by immigrants to the power of love, from the importance of family ties to women's ... See full summary »
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Ayten Erten, Jürgen Prochnow, Aras Ören, Aliki Georgouli
Votes: 47
87. St. Pauli Nacht (1999)
95 min | Drama
Cabby Robby drives in and around St.Pauli, Hamburg, from sunset to sunrise. He is surrounded by stories of the night.
Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Ill-Young Kim, Armin Rohde, Maruschka Detmers, Florian Lukas
Votes: 409
88. Five Sex Rooms und eine Küche (2007)
79 min | Documentary
In the documentary, four prostitutes describe how they assess their work and life. prostitution as a profession.
Director: Eva C. Heldmann | Stars: Lady Tara, Nadine, Tina, Cindy
Votes: 8
89. Cargaison blanche (1937)
100 min | Drama
Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Jules Berry, Suzy Prim, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Votes: 112
90. Zaza's Channel (2021)
Not Rated | 8 min | Short, Drama | Completed
A young man has a nervous breakdown right before filming a sex tape with his girlfriend.
Director: John Wyche | Stars: Keturah Walker, Emmanuel J. Williams
91. Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter (1968)
23 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Irm Hermann, Kristin Peterson, Hanna Schygulla, Peer Raben
Votes: 332
92. Imperfect Sky (2015)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Thriller
Torn apart during adolescence, estranged brothers reunite. The younger, a 16-year old on the fast track to college with his entire life ahead of him. The older, a 21-year old heroin addict and street hustler who's settled for rock bottom.
Director: Graham Streeter | Stars: Blake Scott Lewis, Sam Lucas Smith, Deon Lucas, Paul Cram
Votes: 51
93. Geschichten vom Kübelkind (1971)
205 min | Drama
"Das Kübelkind" is a figure of art: in every story society forces her to learn something. But she, grown up from the moment of her birth, always learns something more than was demanded of her without being asked.
Directors: Edgar Reitz, Ula Stöckl | Stars: Kristine de Loup, Bruno Bendel, Alf Brustellin, Ilse Brustellin
Votes: 36
94. Ritual for the Whores (2017)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Claudia Richarz, Ulrike Zimmermann | Stars: Pedro Costa, Daniel Cremer, Undine de Rivière, Maria Dolores
95. Striptease (1979 TV Movie)
23 min | Drama
Hauser Orkater film adaptation about a man, a woman and their strip show.
Director: Frans Weisz | Stars: Jim van der Woude, Alex van Warmerdam
96. Caer (Caught) (2021)
61 min | Documentary
CAER is a collaborative experimental documentary using fictional and nonfiction filmmaking methods to express the struggles for justice of transgender Latina women working in the NYC sex industry.
Director: Nicola Mai | Stars: Nayra Lee Berrios, Lorena Borjas, Mayra Colon, Jennifer Orellana Delgado
97. Saishin sôpu tekunikku 2: Awa-hime goten (1990)
60 min | Drama
Director: Toshiki Satô | Stars: Saori Ogawa, Miki Tashiro, Yoshimi Shirato, Yasunori Etô
98. Poet on a Business Trip (2015)
Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary
In all its simplicity, a completely unique film, shot more than 10 years ago and only now edited. A poet sets off on a 'business trip' through inhospitable Xinjiang. The physically ... See full summary »
Director: Anqi Ju | Star: Xianbo Hou
Votes: 78
99. The Secrets of Handsome Leo (2018)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Leo Wagner was a co-founder of the CSU, the Conservatives, and a member of the German Federal Parliament in Bonn. During the day, the wartime generation of politicians did their duty at the... See full summary »
Director: Benedikt Schwarzer | Stars: Ruth Schwarzer, Alfred Sauter, Richard Thiel, Hans Korneli
Votes: 20
100. Prowl (2016)
75 min | Drama
Lidia grows pigeons and lives a mundane existence with a husband and two children. Denisa has a boyfriend that needs new sneakers. Vanesa dreams of finding a boyfriend with green eyes. ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandra Balteanu | Stars: Corina Moise, Iulia Lumânare, Iulia Ciochina, Sergiu Costache
Votes: 72