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Movies About Sex Workers

Title	Year	Director	Starring	Synopsis
Lakshmi	2014	Nagesh Kukunoor	Monali Thakur, Vibha Chhibber, Ranjeet Jha	Lakshmi is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language biographical social problem film, written and directed by Nagesh Kukunoor.
She's Lost Control	2014	Anja Marquardt	Brooke Bloom, Marc Menchaca, Denis Boutsikaris	The professional and personal life of a sexual surrogate begins to unravel when she starts working with a new client.
Afternoon Delight	2013	Jill Soloway	Kathryn Hahn, Josh Radnor, Juno Temple	Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom. Frustrated with the realities of preschool auctions, a lackluster sex life and career that's gone kaput, Rachel visits a strip club to spice up her marriage and meets McKenna, a stripper she adopts as her live-in nanny.
Young and Beautiful	2013	François Ozon	Marine Vacth, Geraldine Pailhas, Frederic Pierrot	After 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.
The Sessions	2012	Ben Lewin	John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy	A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.
Meet The Fokkens	2011	Gabrielle Provaas, Rob Schröder	Louise Fokkens, Martine Fokkens	A documentary on Louise and Martine Fokkens, 69-year-old twin sisters who have worked as prostitutes in the red-light district in Amsterdam for over 40 years.
House of Tolerance	2011	Bertrand Bonello	Noémie Lvovsky, Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette	At 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.
Whore's Glory	2011	Michael Glawogger	Emma, Ning, Toh	Whores' Glory is a movie starring Emma, Ning, and Toh. An examination of the lives, needs, troubles and hopes of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico.
Student Services	2010	Emmanuelle Bercot	Déborah François, Alain Cauchi, Mathieu Demy	A financially strapped college student (Déborah François) enters the sex trade to make ends meet.
The Client List	2010	Eric Laneuville	Jennifer Love Hewitt, Teddy Sears, Sonja Bennett	A woman (Jennifer Love Hewitt) unknowingly takes a job at a massage parlor where prostitution runs rampant.
Happy Endings	2009	Tara Hurley	David Cicilline, Steven Brown, Joanne Giannini	Filmed over 27 months, it chronicles the lives of the women in massage parlors in Rhode Island during a battle in the state legislature to once again make prostitution illegal.
A Call Girl	2009	Damjan Kozole	Nina Ivanisin, Peter Musevski, Primoz Pirnat	Alexandra is a student from Krsko, a small town in Slovenia, while she studies the English language in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility.
Princesas	2005	Fernando León de Aranoa	Candela Peña, Micaela Nevárez, Mariana Cordero	Friendship and love in the world of prostitution in Madrid.
Or (My Treasure)	2004	Keren Yedaya	Dana Ivgy, Ronit Elkabetz, Meshar Cohen	A 17-year-old (Dana Ivgy) in Tel Aviv, Israel, takes after her mother (Ronit Elkabetz) and becomes a prostitute.
Julie	2004	Deepak S. Shivdasani	Neha Dhupia, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Yash Tonk	A heart broken Julie comes to Mumbai to make a living, but the fast moving city will force her to take prostitution as her profession.
Chameli	2003	Sudhir Mishra	Kareena Kapoor, Rahul Bose, Rinke Khanna	On a rainy night, when an investment banker's car breaks down in the red light district, he takes shelter where he meets and later befriends a prostitute.
The Sea is Watching	2002	Kei Kumai	Misa Shimizu, Nagiko Tôno, Masatoshi Nagase	An orphaned geisha falls for two samurai in Japan.
Golden Chicken	2002	Samson Chiu	Sandra Kwan Yue Ng, Eric Tsang, Eason Chan	A thief starts to fall for his would-be victim, a charming prostitute, who shares her life story.
All About My Mother	1999	Pedro Aldomovar	Cecilia Roth, Marissa Paredes, Penelope Cruz	After a single mother loses her teenage son in a traffic accident, she moves from Madrid to Barcelona, where she becomes intimately involved in the lives of sex workers, actors and the infirm.
Leaving Las Vegas	1995	Mike Figgis	Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands	Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Mighty Aphrodite	1995	Woody Allen	Woody Allen, Mira Sorvino, Pamela Blair	When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute.
Pretty Woman	1990	Gary Marshall	Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Jason Alexander	A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.
Last Exit to Brooklyn	1989	Uli Edel	Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young	Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual
Working Girls	1986	Lizzie Borden	Louise Smith, Ellen McElduff, Amanda Goodwin	Working Girls is a 1986 independent film, written, produced and directed by Lizzie Borden. It depicts a day in the life of upper class prostitutes in a small Manhattan bordello, and was considered by some a feminist portrayal.
Lola	1981	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf	In post-war West Germany, the charming Von Bohm is appointed a city's new Building Commissioner. His morality is tested when he unknowingly falls in love with a brothel worker, Lola, the paid mistress of a corrupt property developer.
Pretty Baby	1978	Louis Malle	Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon	A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.
Sandakan No. 8	1974	Kei Kumai	Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka	A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.
Belle du Jour	1967	Luis Bunuel	Catherine Denueve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli	A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
The Red Lanterns	1963	Vasilis Georgiadis	Jenny Karezi, Giorgos Foundas, Dimitris Papamichael	The inextricably intertwined stories of five women who work as prostitutes just before the ban on brothels in Troumba.
Mamma Roma	1962	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti	Mamma Roma is a 1962 Italian drama film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and starring Anna Magnani and Ettore Garofolo.
Never On Sunday	1960	Jules Dassin	Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, Giorgos Foundas	An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
Hungry for Love	1960	Antonio Pietrangeli	Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo	When new laws force their brothel to close, four former prostitutes open a restaurant.
Street of Shame	1956	Kenji Mizoguchi	Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao	The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a Japanese brothel.
The Life of Oharu	1952	Kenji Mizoguchi	Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai	Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of the society.
Dédée d'Anvers	1948	Yves Allégret	Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret, Marcello Pagliero	Dedee works as a prostitute in a night club and dreams of escaping from her dull life when she meets a handsome sailor.

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