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Runtime: 82 min.

Street of Shame

V.O.: Akasen chitai
Jap. 1956. Mores drama by Kenji Mizoguchi with Machiko Kyo, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao. The plight of women who engage in prostitution in Tokyo.
Runtime: 87 min.

Nights of Cabiria

V.O.: Le Notte di Cabiria
It. 1957. Psychological drama by Federico Fellini with Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Amedeo Nazzari. A prostitute experiences a bitter disappointment in love.
Runtime: 108 min.
It. 1962. Social drama by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini. The miserable life of a pimp in a Roman suburb.
Runtime: 116 min.

My Life to Live

V.O.: Vivre sa vie
Fr. 1962. Psychological drama by Jean-Luc Godard with Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe. A prostitute has a run-in with her pimp when she decides to leave it all for a man who loves her.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 1967. Mores drama by Luis Bunuel with Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli. The young wife of a Parisian surgeon is blackmailed by a friend of the couple, who discover that during the day she is a prostitute in a brothel.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1969. Mores drama by John Schlesinger with Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles. The tribulations of a young man who travels from Texas to New York in the hope of making his fortune as a prostitute.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1971. Western by Robert Altman with Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois. An enterprising prostitute offers her help to a gambler who has established a saloon on land he won in a card game.
Runtime: 121 min.
U.S. 1971. Crime drama by Alan J. Pakula with Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda, Charles Cioffi. A police officer comes to New York to investigate a disappearance and falls in love with an escort.
Runtime: 115 min.
Bel. 1975. Drama by Chantal Akerman with Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck. Three days in the very regulated life of a Brussels widow, who prostitutes herself in the afternoons in the small apartment she shares with her teenage son.
Runtime: 201 min.
U.S. 1980. Mores drama by Paul Schrader with Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo.
Runtime: 117 min.
U.S. 1991. Mores drama with River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, William Richert. A young prostitute who suffers from narcolepsy befriends the rebellious son of the town's mayor.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1995. Psychological drama by Mike Figgis with Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands.
Runtime: 112 min.

Men For Sale

V.O.: Hommes à louer
Can. 2008. Documentary by Rodrigue Jean. Over the course of a year, the testimonies of young male prostitutes working in Montreal’s gay village.
Runtime: 143 min.
Can. 2015. Documentary by Ève Lamont. Portrait of the sex industry in Quebec and the rest of the world, in the era of ihe Internet and social media.
Runtime: 76 min.
U.S. 2015. Dramatic comedy by Sean Baker with Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian. Released from prison on Christmas Eve, a transgender sex worker in Los Angeles sets out to find her pimp boyfriend, who cheated on her while she was in prison.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 2020. Mores comedy by Janicza Bravo with Taylour Paige, Riley Keough, Colman Domingo. An exotic dancer is dragged by a wild female colleague on a misguided trip to Tampa, Florida.
Runtime: 86 min.
Can. 2022. Mores drama by Geneviève Albert with Kelly Depeault, Emi Chicoine, James-Edward Métayer. After her mother refuses to take her back, a teenager runs away from the youth center where she has been living for three years, and falls under the influence of a seductive pimp.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 2023. Science-fiction by Yorgos Lanthimos with Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo. In the 19th century, in England, a scientist with unorthodox methods brings a pregnant woman back to life by transplanting the brain of her infant.
Runtime: 141 min.
U.S. 2024. Dramatic comedy by Sean Baker with Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelstein, Karren Karagulian. A Manhattan erotic dancer marries the son of a Russian oligarch, believing that he had warned his people first.
Runtime: 138 min.
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