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1) Little death
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia sexualis, the Little death offers a peek into the seedy boudoirs of a Victorian-era brothel, where a strong-willed reformer ventures into a turn-of-the-century brothel to confront its owner, and to liberate a young woman who is being held there in sexual captivity.
2) Elles
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A provocative and raw exploration of female sexuality, director Malgoska Szumowska's Elles paints an unromantic picture of upper-crust domesticity refracted through the vibrant eroticism of prostitution. Vacillating between opposing worlds defined alternatively by sexual freedom and constraint, Elles stars the fearless Juliette Binoche (Chocolat) as Anne, a well-off Parisian journalist investigating the lives of two student prostitutes (Joanna Kulig...
3) Princess
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Danish
Description
The 32-year-old clergyman August returns home from years of missionary work abroad because of the death of his sister Christina, who, after going from greatness to the gutter as the famous porno star "The Princess" - has finally died of drug abuse. She has left her five-year-old daughter Mia with Karen, a prostitute. August pays them a visit to bring Mia home with him and become her guardian. Burdened by sorrow and guilt, he decides to avenge Christina's...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Television
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Love Hewitt stars as a mother who turns prostitute after her husband loses his job and leaves, her family is left without income, and she is on the verge of losing everything. Includes all episodes from the first season.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
After losing her virginity, seventeen-year-old budding beauty Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her older gentlemen clients for erotic hotel room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
Publisher
Distributed by Music Box Films
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
Swedish
Description
In this second film based on Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Mikael Blomkvist's journalistic protégé and his activist girlfriend are delving into a sex-trafficking ring whose patrons who are highly placed in the political establishment. When the couple are brutally murdered, the gun found in their apartment has Lisbeth's fingerprints on it, and Lisbeth and Mikael embark on parallel manhunts. Mikael is simultaneously aided and obstructed by a shambling...
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Russian émigré countess Natascha becomes a stowaway in the shipboard stateroom of U.S. diplomat Ogden in order to escape her life of forced prostitution in Hong Kong. Her plan is to blackmail her way to freedom in the States but Ogden has a mind of his own and can resist even the charms of a countess.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Français
Description
Despite holding a part-time job, college freshman Laura is unable to make ends meet. Desperate for money, she answers an Internet ad from Joe, a 57-year-old man who seeks a female student for 'tender moments.' The pay is 100 euros per hour. She promises herself it will be only this one time. Three days later, Laura meets Joe and her downward spiral begins. By her second customer, however, Laura already wants to stop. Will she be able to?
11) Prime cut
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A Kansas City mobster uses a meat processing factory as a front for his drug and prostitution business. There, gangsters are ground into sausage, and women are sold like cattle. Things change, however, when Chicago tough guy Nick comes to town.
Publisher
Distributed by Venevision International
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and breaks up with Garcia, her boss and lover who has infuriated her by not wanting to get married. So, in the space of twenty-four hours, Elisa finds herself without a roof over her head, without a man, without a job and without money....
Series
Criterion collection volume 484
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Jeanne Dielman is a young widow who goes through her daily domestic routine including making the bed, cooking for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick. Includes interviews, booklet, documentary, and more.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[c2015]
Language
English
Description
"Prostitute. Hooker. Street Walker. Whore. Candid and seductive, sex worker, Angie is determined to set the record straight about sex. Provacative, compassionate, poignant and sexy, Black & White & Sex takes you behind the scenes and into Angie's very special world. There's a question here for every man and an answer for every woman. Anyone who pays is welcome--but leave your expectatiosn at the door...sex is never black & white."--Container.
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
"Three women: a mother, her daughter, and a prostitute have been living in a hotel in the center of town amid creeping fundamentalism. Goucem, the daughter, has chosen a modern, emancipated life, spending steamy weekends in nightclubs. Fifi, her faithful friend, prostitutes herself under the thumb of a local protector. Papicha, the mother, eats pizzas in front of the television, torn between fear and nostalgia"--Container.
17) The client list
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When an injury leaves her husband unable to work, and her family faces foreclosure on their home, a former beauty queen is forced to take a job in a massage parlor. She soon realizes that it's a front for a high-end call girl operation, one so lucrative, she can't afford to turn it down. But when the parlor is raided, she must either cooperate with the police and give up her clients' identities, or lose everything she tried so hard to save.
18) Bastards
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Français
Description
Following his brother-in-law's suicide, sea captain Marco goes AWOL to rescue his estranged sister and teenaged niece from a powerful, wealthy businessman, who just so happens to be his lover's husband. But Marco's attempt at heroism is soon thwarted as he delves further into the hellish world his sister has involved herself in, and the deception from those he trusted most.
20) Queen Kelly
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2003, c1929
Language
English
Description
A gothic romance in which a convent girl is seduced by a prince and inherits a brothel in Africa before he finds her again.
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