The Oldest Profession
Most interesting films about prostitution.
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- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsIsuzu YamadaYôko UmemuraBenkei ShiganoyaTwo geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other sister sets up various schemes to get rid of him.
- DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsMachiko KyôAiko MimasuAyako WakaoThe personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsGiulietta MasinaFrançois PérierFranca MarziA waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
- DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsTamio KawajiYumiko NogawaIsao TamagawaIn WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraMauro BologniniPhilippe de BrocaStarsMichèle MercierEnrico Maria SalernoGabriele TintiA collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsCatherine DeneuveJean SorelMichel PiccoliA frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsMonique van de VenRutger HauerAndrea DomburgThe young girl Keetje moves to Amsterdam in 1881 with her impoverished family, and is led into prostitution in order to survive. In the process she sees the corrupting influence of money.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsBrooke ShieldsKeith CarradineSusan SarandonA preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsTheresa RussellBenjamin MoutonAntonio FargasA night in the life of a cynical prostitute forms the basis of Ken Russell's portrait of the world's oldest profession.
- DirectorLukas MoodyssonStarsOksana AkinshinaArtyom BogucharskiyPavel PonomaryovSixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
- DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsLee EolKwak Ji-minHan Yeo-reumJae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin "manages" her, fixing dates, taking care of the money and making sure the coast is clear. When Jae-Young falls in love with one of those man she suppresses her feelings towards him in respect of her friend who's jealous.
- DirectorMaría LidónStarsDaryl HannahDenise RichardsJoaquim de AlmeidaAn anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she expected.
- DirectorZana BriskiRoss KauffmanStarsKochiAvijit HalderShanti DasTwo documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
- DirectorFernando León de AranoaStarsCandela PeñaMicaela NevárezMariana CorderoFriendship and love in the world of prostitution in Madrid.
- DirectorDeepa MehtaStarsLisa RayJohn AbrahamSeema BiswasSet in colonial India against Gandhi's rise to power, it's the story of 8-year-old Chuyia, who is widowed and sent to a home to live in penitence; once there, Chuyia's feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents.
- DirectorHarmonia Carmona
- DirectorRithy PanhThe film is situated as close as one can get to the life - and thus the spiritual death - of a prostitute.
- DirectorDamjan KozoleStarsNina IvanisinPeter MusevskiPrimoz PirnatAleksandra is a student from Krsko, a small town in Slovenia, who is studying the English language in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. She is working as a prostitute and her life is heading to where she wants it to be, until an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion, and responsibility.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsSasha GreyChris SantosPhilip EytanA drama set in the days leading up to the 2008 Presidential election, and centered on a high-end Manhattan call girl meeting the challenges of her boyfriend, her clients, and her work.
- DirectorKatarzyna RoslaniecStarsAnna KarczmarczykDagmara KrasowskaDominika GwitShopping malls are today's places of creating desires with the best jewelry, clothes and shoes. Unaffordable to young girls who decide to "work" to get themselves sponsors for new items.
- DirectorMalgorzata SzumowskaStarsJuliette BinocheAnaïs DemoustierJoanna KuligOn her latest assignment, a journalist for Elle immerses herself in a prostitution ring run by university students.
- DirectorJulia LeighStarsEmily BrowningRachael BlakeEwen LeslieA haunting portrait of Lucy, a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires.
- DirectorMichael GlawoggerStarsEmmaNingTohAn examination of the lives, needs, troubles, and hopes of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico.
- DirectorMarcus BaldiniStarsDeborah SeccoCássio Gabus MendesDrica MoraesAfter the adoptive daughter of a stable family leaves them for a new life as a prostitute, she rises to become a popular performer among her clients, and details her routine in her blog.
- DirectorBertrand BonelloStarsNoémie LvovskyHafsia HerziCéline SalletteAt an elegant Parisian bordello at the dawn of the 20th century exists a cloistered world of pleasure, pain, hope, rivalries--and, most of all, slavery.
- DirectorMikael MarcimainStarsSofia KaremyrSimon J. BergerJosefin AsplundA young girl is recruited from the bottom rung of society into a ruthless world where power can get you anything.
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsMarine VacthGéraldine PailhasFrédéric PierrotAfter losing her virginity, Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her clients for hotel-room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
- DirectorAntoine d'AgataStarsAntoine d'AgataThe renowned Antoine d'Agata, again and always, uses his sublime camera and whole being to reveal a parallel world of prostitution and drugs, punctuated by exhausted bodies and lost souls in Cambodia, Russia and India.
- DirectorJames GrayStarsMarion CotillardJoaquin PhoenixJeremy RennerIn 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
- DirectorDavid PablosStarsNancy TalamantesÓscar TorresLeidi GutiérrezYoung Ulises falls in love with teen Sofia, even as he is forced to lure her into his family's prostitution ring. Now he will do anything to save her.
- DirectorAnne ÉmondStarsMylène MackayMilya Corbeil GauvreauMickaël GouinInspired by the life and works of Nelly Arcan, a sex worker turned international literary star, lost between irreconcilable identities, whose life ended tragically.