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Author
Language
English
Description
Donaldina Cameron arrived at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in 1895 intending to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women immigrants. She discovers that the job is much more complicated than perfect stitches and even hems. San Francisco has a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization-- the criminal tong-- brings Chinese young women to America to sell them as slaves. With the help of Chinese interpreters and the Chinatown police...
Series
Criterion collection volume 49
Publisher
Home Vision Cinema
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
The story of a Roman prostitute who tries to bear up as best she can under the humiliating and dangerous conditions in which she must ply her trade.
5) Pretty woman
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A successful corporate mogul meets an independent and carefree prostitute. He teaches her about the finer things in life and she teaches him that love could be the best investment he ever made.
7) La chienne
Series
Criterion collection volume 818
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, known as Lulu on the street, and makes her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dédé, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dédé's needs of money.
9) Belle Cora
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and transforming herself repeatedly to win the love and life she desires.
10) The naked kiss
Series
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A former prostitute, hoping to fit into mainstream society, moves to an all-American suburb, but her past comes back to haunt her.
11) The red lily
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Seeking a better life in Paris, Jean (Ramon Novarro) and Marise (Enid Bennett) plan to meet at a specific time and place. When circumstances intervene, the two lovers miss their rendezvous, never reunite and are destined to lead separate lives that become more and more degrading. Marise turns to prositution and Jean succumbs to the delightful debauchery of a thief named Bo-Bo (Wallace Beery ...). Heatthrob Novarro and delicate Bennett make a magical...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Richard Chapman hosts his brother's bachelor party, his wife Kristin takes their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening. What she does not expect is bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards before driving off into the night. As their life rapidly spirals into nightmare, their home now a crime scene, Richard's investment banking...
13) Strange cargo
Series
Joan Crawford collection volume 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Through impenetrable jungles. Across perilous swamps. Desperate for a second chance at life, a band of Devil's Island felons and a tough-as-nails prostitute struggle toward freedom. Film giants Gable and Crawford team for the eighth and last time in this gripping story that explores the lures of the flesh and the transcendence of the spirit. Fighting each other and the elements, the stars imbue this provocative adventure with audacity, power and passion....
14) A love so true
Author
Language
English
Description
Evelyn Wisely has a heart for the orphans of Teaville and works at a local mansion that rescues children out of the town's red-light district and gives them a place to live. But her desire to help isn't limited to orphans. The owner of the mansion, Nicholas Lowe, is willing to help her try to get the women working in prostitution out of the district as well -- if she can gain the cooperation and support of local businessmen to go against the rest...
15) La chienne
Series
Criterion collection volume 818
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, known as Lulu on the street, and makes her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dédé, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dédé's needs of money.
16) One take only
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Thai
Description
When Som and Bank meet for the first time in the sprawling metropolis of Bangkok, they are strangers. Bank doesn't know that Som is a hooker, and Som doesn't know Bank is a drug dealer. Soon they become partners, and the drug deals they make bring them a kind of wealth they have never known. With a taste for the highlife, they plan a deal that will make them rich beyond their wildest imagination. But they soon find the price they pay, may be way...
17) Lola
Series
Criterion collection volume 206
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Part of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Entire History of the German Federal Republic trilogy. Lola, a seductive cabaret singer and dancer in the 1950s, is romantically involved with Von Bohm, a morally upright building inspector. Recently appointed Building Commissioner, Von Bohm is committed to eradicating corruption. Consequently, he's given quite a shock when he is called into inspect the brothel where Lola works and discovers her there. With that,...
20) The red kimona
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
A vulnerable young woman, whose blind trust in a man leads her into a New Orleans bordello, endures the hardships of that life, but is eventually driven to murdering her lover. A sympathetic jury acquits her and after a period of hardship she ultimately finds happiness.
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