Birdcage Inn

1998

Korean

7.0

♡ 4

Action

Drama

prostitute

Ki-duk Kim Director

Hye Eun Lee as Hye-mi

Jae-mo Ahn as Hyun-woo

Ji-eun Lee as Jin-a

Min-seok Son as Jin-ho

Jin-a, a young prostitute, moves into a seaside motel called the Birdcage Inn, run by a dysfunctional family. Struggling with her circumstances and the family's treatment, she forms an unlikely bond with the daughter, Hye-mi. As they navigate love, betrayal, and personal growth, their friendship ultimately leads to a deeper understanding and a chance for redemption.

Belle de Jour

1967

French

7.6

♡ 58

95%

husband wife relationship

jealousy

prostitute

Romance

Luis Buñuel Director

Michel Piccoli as Henri Husson

Bernard Fresson as Le grele

Macha Méril as Renee

Catherine Deneuve as Séverine Serizy / Belle de Jour

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

The Killer Inside Me

2010

English

6.1

♡ 31

56%

40%

Action

airplane

based on novel or book

Michael Winterbottom Director

Kate Hudson as Amy Stanton

Bill Pullman as Billy Boy Walker

Matthew Maher as Deputy Jeff Plummer

Jessica Alba as Joyce Lakeland

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.

Paradise

2013

English

5.0

♡ 9

20%

Diablo Cody Director

Christopher Berry as Harold

Octavia Spencer as Loray

Holly Hunter as Melanie Mannerheim

Christopher Matthew Cook as Security Guard

After surviving a plane crash a young conservative woman suffers a crisis of faith.

Journey to Italy

1954

Italian

7.3

♡ 22

96%

75%

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

husband wife relationship

Roberto Rossellini Director

George Sanders as Alexander 'Alex' Joyce

Jackie Frost as Betty

Ingrid Bergman as Katherine Joyce

Lyla Rocco as La signora Sinibaldi

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.

Queen of the Underworld

1991

Cn

5.3

♡ 7

14%

Sherman Wong Director Ray Lui

Ray Lui as

Lung Fei as

Pak-Kwong Ho as

Dennis Chan as

Popular Hong Kong actress Amy Yip plays Sister Har -- a seminal figure in 1960s and '70s Hong Kong nightlife -- in this biographical film that follows the scenester's rise and fall from the upper echelons of society to the glamour and excess of Hong Kong's teeming underworld. A truly fascinating portrait of the allure and excess that were part of the fabric of Asia's favorite playground.

Lower City

2005

Portuguese

6.5

♡ 8

60%

Sérgio Machado Director

Fernando Fulco as Delegate

Alice Braga as Karinna

Maria Menezes as Luzinete

Wagner Moura as Naldinho

Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, pushing the bounds of their friendship to the limit.

Nazarin

1959

Spanish

7.7

♡ 13

86%

Luis Buñuel Director

Arturo Castro 'Bigotón' as Coronel

Ignacio López Tarso as El sacrílego

Rosenda Monteros as La prieta

Francisco Rabal as Padre Nazario

After hiding a murderer, a Catholic priest is forced into self-exile and decides to embark on a pilgrimage through the Mexican countryside.

Mardi Gras Massacre

1978

English

4.0

♡ 6

12%

gore

Horror

human sacrifice

new orleans, louisiana

prostitute

serial killer

slasher

Jack Weis Director

Nancy Dancer as 19-y-o Dancer

Cathryn Lacey as Dancer with Monk

William Metzo as John

Gwen Arment as Sherry

Police try to capture someone who is commiting ritual murders of women during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Swallowtail Butterfly

1996

Japanese

7.5

♡ 17

89%

Shunji Iwai Director

Sansei Shiomi as

Tadanobu Asano as Customer in club

Atsuro Watabe as Ran

Kaori Momoi as Suzukino

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

Ley Lines

1999

Japanese

6.9

♡ 11

Takashi Miike Director

Tetsu Watanabe as

Ryûshi Mizukami as

Shô Aikawa as Ikeda

Kazuki Kitamura as Ryuichi

The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.

The Punishment

1973

French

4.2

♡ 3

based on novel or book

Pierre-Alain Jolivet Director

Henri Déus as Antoni

Raphaëlle Devins as (as Raphaële Devins)

Anne Jolivet as Gloria

Jacques Destoop as L'homme de loi

Britt, deluxe call-girl, is punished by the brothel owner because she was not accomodating enough to a customer. From now on, she must obey to all customers sadistic wishes, or else.

Uranya

2006

Greek

6.4

♡ 1

63%

Costas Kapakas Director

Manolis Mavromatakis as Dimitrakopoulos

Dina Mihailidou as Evgenia

Despina Mirou as Girl in Photo

Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Uranya

A group of young boys must decide whether to buy a TV set to watch the launch of Apollo 11 or visit Uranya to learn about the secrets of love.

Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby

1999

English

5.4

♡ 14

31%

Matthew Bright Director

Michael T. Weiss as Drifter

Max Perlich as Flacco

Tom Heaton as Gramps

Natasha Lyonne as White Girl

A twisted teenage prostitute and an equally deranged vicious killer manage to escape from the pen and embark on a non-stop orgy of violence and debauchery, all while hoping to make it across the border into Mexico in order to seek refuge with the mysterious Sister Gomez.

The Banker

1989

English

5.0

♡ 3

33%

William Webb Director

Robert Forster as Dan

David Fine as Paramedic

Shanna Reed as Sharon

Duncan Regehr as Spaulding Osbourne

High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.

Like Someone in Love

2012

Japanese

♡ 19

83%

Abbas Kiarostami Director Denden

Denden as Hiroshi

Ryô Kase as Noriaki

Ryota Nakanishi as Student

Tadashi Okuno as Takashi Watanabe

An old man and a young woman meet in Tokyo. She knows nothing about him, he thinks he knows her. He welcomes her into his home, she offers him her body. But the web that is woven between them in the space of twenty four hours bears no relation to the circumstances of their encounter.

The Night of the Generals

1967

English

7.2

♡ 31

43%

Anatole Litvak Director

Gordon Jackson as Captain Engel

Raymond Gérôme as Colonel

Nigel Stock as Otto

Joanna Pettet as Ulrike

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

Deceiver

1997

English

6.4

♡ 12

42%

Jonas Pate Director

Michael Rooker as Det. Edward Kennesaw

Renée Zellweger as Elizabeth

Rosanna Arquette as Mrs. Kennesaw

Tim Roth as Wayland

The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.

Dark Glasses

2022

Italian

5.1

♡ 15

52%

Dario Argento Director

Mario Pirrello as

Mario Scerbo as Facchino Albergo

Gianluca Giugliarelli as Pardi

Asia Argento as Rita

Diana, a high-class prostitute trying to escape from a serial killer, suffers a car accident that leaves her blind and kills the family of Chin, a ten-year-old boy.

Willie Dynamite

1974

English

6.4

♡ 5

Action

blaxploitation cinema

Gilbert Moses Director

Bob Harks as Bailiff

Robert DoQui as Baylor the Pimp

Ken Lynch as Judge #1

Thalmus Rasulala as Robert Daniels

Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life while it is still possible.

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Mardi Gras Massacre

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Ley Lines

The Punishment

Uranya

Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby

The Banker

Like Someone in Love

The Night of the Generals

Deceiver

Dark Glasses

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