A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.

Story of a Prostitute

1965

Japanese

7.3

♡ 5

81%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Yumiko Nogawa as Harumi

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Crooks in Clover

1963

French

7.7

♡ 7

96%

Action

based on novel or book

Georges Lautner Director

Henri Cogan as Freddy

Francis Blanche as Maître Folace

Bernard Blier as Raoul Volfoni

Horst Frank as Théo

An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.

Crimes of Passion

1984

English

6.4

♡ 21

50%

Ken Russell Director

Annie Potts as Amy Grady

Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Ben

John Laughlin as Bobby Grady

Dan Gerrity as Group Member No.1

Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.

The Fall of the American Empire

2018

French

6.9

♡ 3

60%

Denys Arcand Director

Maxim Roy as Carla McDuff

Éric Bruneau as Enquêteur Plamondon

Claude Legault as Informateur

Alain Goulem as Sean McDowell

A shy and insecure delivery driver arrives on the scene of a robbery-gone-wrong and picks up two bags of cash and hides them in his truck. He is interrogated by two tough police detectives and manages to evade suspicion but he is warned that whoever owns the money will be looking for it. Only the help of a prostitute and a former biker recently released from jail might get him out of trouble.

Evita

1996

English

6.3

♡ 39

63%

football (soccer) ball

Alan Parker Director

Antonio Banderas as Ché

Jonathan Pryce as Juan Perón

Charles Lewsen as Pope Pius XII

Mark Ryan as Waiter in Junín Bar

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

Welcome to New York

2014

English

5.6

♡ 10

77%

Abel Ferrara Director

Gérard Depardieu as Devereaux

Jackie Raynal as Dinner Guest

Ronald Guttman as Roullot

Jacqueline Bisset as Simone

Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations. A man driven by a frenzied and unbridled sexual hunger. A man who dreamed of saving the world and who cannot save himself. A terrified man. A lost man.

Red Dust

1932

English

7.2

♡ 6

90%

Victor Fleming Director

Mary Astor as Barbara Willis

Gene Raymond as Gary Willis

Donald Crisp as Guidon

Forrester Harvey as Limey

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.

Dillinger

1973

English

6.9

♡ 11

93%

75%

Action

bank robber

based on a true story

John Milius Director

Michelle Phillips as Billie Frechette

John P. Ryan as Charles Mackley

Warren Oates as John Dillinger

Roy Jenson as Samuel Cowley

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.

Angel

1984

English

5.8

♡ 15

Robert Vincent O'Neil Director

Dick Shawn as Mae

Elaine Giftos as Patricia Allen

Peter Jason as The John

Ross Hagen as Urban Cowboy

Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.

Dorm Daze

2003

English

4.6

♡ 25

foreign exchange student

David Hillenbrand Director

Tatyana Ali as Claire

Courtney Gains as Lorenzo the Black Hand

Patrick Cavanaugh as Pete

Edwin Hodge as Tony

When a foreign-exchange student and a hooker - both named Dominique - show up on a college campus, the unsuspecting student body is in for the education of a lifetime!

Hustle

1975

English

6.2

♡ 15

50%

Robert Aldrich Director

Chuck Hayward as Morgue Attendant

Catherine Deneuve as Nicole Britton

Ron Nyman as Pan Am Clerk

Catherine Bach as Peggy Summers

The body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found dead on a Los Angeles beach, and Lt. Phil Gaines is in charge of the investigation. Gaines learns that the girl, a stripper and prostitute, committed suicide, but he ignores the connection between her and a powerful mob lawyer, Leo Sellers. Hollinger's father, however, is not satisfied with Gaines's results, and attempts to investigate the case on his own.

Crocodile Dundee

1986

English

6.6

♡ 58

89%

Peter Faiman Director

Anne Carlisle as Gwendoline

Mark Blum as Richard Mason

Caitlin Clarke as Simone

John Meillon as Walter Reilly

When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Mick Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. He proves that his instincts are quite useful in the city and adeptly handles everything from wily muggers to high-society snoots without breaking a sweat.

Frankenstein '80

1972

Italian

4.2

♡ 4

14%

Mario Mancini Director

Dada Gallotti as Butcher

Renato Romano as Inspector Schneider

John Richardson as Karl Schein

Marco Mariani as Track Spectator

A mad scientist creates a monster called "Mosaico," who breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women.

Geylang

2022

Chinese

5.3

♡ 6

Boi Kwong Director

Sherqueshaa Ananya as Cherry

Lily Siew Lin Ong as Clinic Granny

Eric Gwee Ying Kiat as Edwin

Alan Tan as Rowdy Customer

Lust, shame, passion, lies and violence - the lives of individuals intertwine in an unyielding web under the red lights of Geylang. A desperate doctor searching for an organ for his daughter, a tormented prostitute paying off her lover's debt, a social worker with political inclinations willing to cross the line, and a ruthless pimp with a dark secret. Nothing is quite what it seems as a long night awaits.

Mamma Roma

1962

Italian

7.8

♡ 7

95%

90%

Drama

friendship

parent child relationship

Pier Paolo Pasolini Director

Franco Citti as Carmine

Anna Magnani as Mamma Roma

Lamberto Maggiorani as Un malato

Antonio Spoletini as Un pompieretto

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.

Murder 2

2011

Hindi

6.3

♡ 10

52%

Mohit Suri Director

Rasika Dugal as

Emraan Hashmi as Arjun Bhagawat

Prashant Narayanan as Dhiraj Pandey

Jacqueline Fernandez as Priya

A former police officer gets hired by a gangster to trace missing call girls and their abductor.

Identity

2003

English

7.3

♡ 139

63%

James Mangold Director

Marshall Bell as District Attorney

Alfred Molina as Dr. Malick

Amanda Peet as Paris

Jake Busey as Robert Maine

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

Saawariya

2007

Hindi

5.2

♡ 12

41%

46%

Action

based on novel or book

Sanjay Leela Bhansali Director

Rani Mukerji as Gulab

Salman Khan as Imaan

Ranbir Kapoor as Ranbir Raj

Sonam Kapoor as Sakina

Two souls arrive in a small town, one on vacation, the other to meet a lover. They spend the most magical dream-like days of their lives in that town... with each other.

Anna Christie

1930

English

6.5

♡ 6

57%

Action

based on play or musical

Clarence Brown Director

Greta Garbo as Anna

Jack Baxley as Coney Island Barker

James T. Mack as Johnny, the Harp

Marie Dressler as Marthy

Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.

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