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The Docks of New York
The Docks of New York (1928)
, 1h16
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Betty Compson, George Bancroft, Olga Baclanova, Clyde Wilfred Cook, Mitchell Lewis, Gustav von Seyffertitz

The story involves an incredibly strong ship stoker named Bill (Bancroft) and the beautiful prostitute Mae (Compson), whom he saves from drowning during his one night of shore leave. She was attempting suicide as she had no money, almost no clothes and felt remorse about her life up to then. He steals some clothes for her and invites her out for a "good night". They go to a bustling wharf pub and that evening they spontaneously get married by a minister invited to the pub.
The Nun
The Nun (1966)
, 2h15
Directed by Jacques Rivette
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle, Francisco Rabal, Francine Bergé, Yori Bertin

The Nun starts out with a young woman, named Suzanne, in a wedding gown preparing to take her vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty to make herself a nun, but she refuses at the
Pigs and Battleships
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
, 1h48
Directed by Shōhei Imamura
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Yōko Minamida, Hiroyuki Nagato, Tetsurō Tanba, Shirō Ōsaka, Takeshi Katō, Kin Sugai

The film focuses on Kinta, a member of the Himori Yakuza, who has been put in charge of the gang's pork distribution and his girlfriend Haruko, who works at a bar. Kinta is shown working with other gangsters, beating up a local shopkeep who caters to Americans and paying the people who work on the hog farm. When Kinta goes to visit Haruko in the afternoon she leaves without speaking to him and Kinta finds out through her sister that Haruko is being paid 30000 yen to go on a date with a sailor (and that her mother has already spent the money). Haruko returns to Kinta later that night, although Kinta is unhappy because of the earlier events. Haruko reveals that she is pregnant and expresses her concerns about Kinta’s work.
The Place Without Limits
The Place Without Limits (1978)
, 1h50
Directed by Arturo Ripstein
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Transgender in film, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Lucha Villa, Ana Martín, Gonzalo Vega, Julián Pastor, Fernando Soler, Carmen Salinas

La Manuela, un travesti homosexuel, et sa fille Japonesita, tiennent un bordel dans le petit village d'El Olivo, que le chef, Don Alejo, veut vendre. Pancho, l'ancien protégé du chef du village, revient à El Olivo. Ivre, Pancho révèle sa part d'homosexualité avec La Manuela.
Mandi
Mandi (1983)
, 2h47
Directed by Shyam Benegal
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil, Neena Gupta, Amrish Puri

For years an aging Rukmini Bai (Shabana Azmi) has been the Madame of a brothel in Hyderabad, India. One day she gets the news that she now has a new landlord in Mr. Gupta (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), whose daughter is to marry the mayor's son Sushil, shortly. Led by City Councillor, Shantidevi, the people in this town demand that this brothel be moved elsewhere, preferably on the outskirts of the town, and they do succeed, compelling Rukmini to move with her women to their new location, which happens to be near the Dargah of Baba Karak Shah. Ironically, this attracts a lot of people, and the patronage to Rukmini's bordello increases. Then complications set in when Sushil refuses to marry his father's choice, childlike Malti, and wants to marry Zeenat (Smita Patil) - a prostitute, not entirely by choice and seeking for a better existence, who resides with Rukmini.
Sandakan No. 8
Sandakan No. 8 (1974)
, 2h1
Directed by Kei Kumai
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Kinuyo Tanaka, Komaki Kurihara, Ken Tanaka, Takiko Mizunoe, Eitarō Ozawa, Teruko Kishi

A young female journalist Keiko Mitani (Komaki Kurihara) is researching an article on the history of Japanese women who were forced to work as prostitutes in Asian brothels during the early 20th century. She locates Osaki (Kinuyo Tanaka), an elderly woman who lives with a number of cats in a shack in a remote village. Osaki agrees to tell her life story, and the film goes into flashback to the early 1920s. A young Osaki (Yoko Takashi) is sold by her poverty-stricken family into indentured servitude as a maid in Sandakan, British North Borneo (today’s Sabah, Malaysia) at what she believes to be a hotel. At parting, Osaki's distraught and tragic mother gives her a kimono that she has woven by hand over the night before her daughter's departure. The kimono will be Osaki's most treasured possession forever. The establishment is actually a brothel called Sandakan No. 8. Osaki, who is sold as a young girl, works for two years as a maid, but is forced by the brothel’s owners to become a prostitute. Osaki stays at Sandakan 8 until World War II, and in that period she never experiences genuine affection outside of a brief romance with a poor farmer who abandons her when he comes one evening to the brothel and sees the disheveled and exhausted Osaki after an onslaught of service to a battalion of Japanese sailors recently docked at the town. When Osaki returns to Japan, her brother and his wife, who have bought a house with the money she sent them, tell her that she has become an embarrassment.
In the Name of the Italian People
In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
, 1h43
Directed by Dino Risi
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Ely Galleani, Yvonne Furneaux, Pietro Tordi, Simonetta Stefanelli

Set in Rome and its surroundings, the film tells in a frighteningly realistic, ruthless and grotesque the evil of two powerful men of Italy in the seventies: a Director of illegal buildings (Vittorio Gassman), extremist fascist, and an upright judge, cynical looking in part to the Italian law (Ugo Tognazzi). Both can not stand each other, given the contrasts between the two men in any social, political and philosophical. Everyone hates each other and would like to delete it, but just because of the bad example that the two men give power to the people, many Italians are adversely affected because of cheating and rudeness of the fascist manufacturer and the communist magistrate. The director Dino Risi underlines the misdeeds and the weakness of the Italian people to react accordingly, by focusing on the story of these two men who are each other's opposite of the net.
Hero of the Red Light District
Hero of the Red Light District (1960)
, 1h49
Directed by Tomu Uchida
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Chiezō Kataoka, Isao Kimura, Yaeko Mizutani, Minoru Chiaki, Sadako Sawamura, Fumiko Okamura

Jirozaemon est un riche et honnête fabricant de soie qui avait été abandonné à la naissance par une famille inconnue mais sans doute aisée. Il est affecté d'une cicatrice au visage dont l'extrême laideur fait fuir les femmes. Comme il souhaite une épouse coûte que coûte, des clients lui arrangent des rencontres : en vain. Ils décident un jour de distraire le malheureux en l'emmenant à Yoshiwara, le quartier des plaisirs de Edo (ancien nom de Tokyo). Là-bas, même les geishas ne veulent pas lui tenir compagnie. Seule Tamatsuru, une prostituée de bas-étage sortant de prison et décidée à monter dans la hiérarchie sociale, accepte la compagnie du « monstre ». Celui-ci s'en émeut. Elle lui promet le mariage s'il l'aide à devenir « première courtisane ». Jirozaemon se ruine pour elle, à un moment où son entreprise traverse une mauvaise passe, avant de réaliser que le tout Yoshiwara s'est moqué de lui.
Dastak
Dastak (1970)
, 2h20
Directed by Rajinder Singh Bedi
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films
Actors Sanjeev Kumar, Rehana Sultan, Anju Mahendru, Kamal Kapoor, Manmohan Krishna Chadha

The film was known for its unusual story line set in a red light area. A newlywed couple, Hamid (Sanjeev Kumar) and Salma (Rehana Sultan), unwittingly rent a flat, and thus begins their daily turmoil at the knocks (dastak) on their door. The previous occupant was Shamshad Begum (Shakeela), a famous mujrewali (nautch girl).
Ten
Ten (2002)
, 1h34
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Origin Iran
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about automobiles, Films about Islam, Road movies

The film is divided into ten scenes, each of which depict a conversation between an unchanging female driver (played by Mania Akbari) and a variety of passengers as she drives around Tehran. Her passengers include her young son (played by Akbari's real life son, Amin Maher), her sister, a bride, a prostitute, and a woman on her way to prayer. One of the major plots during the film is the driver's divorce from her (barely seen) husband, and the conflict that this causes between mother and son.
Shoot the Piano Player
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
, 1h18
Directed by François Truffaut
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Piano, Erotic thriller films
Actors Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Albert Rémy, Jean-Jacques Aslanian

A washed-up classical pianist, Charlie Kohler/Edouard Saroyan (Charles Aznavour), bottoms out after his wife's suicide — stroking the keys in a Parisian dive bar. The waitress, Lena (Marie Dubois), is falling in love with Charlie, who it turns out is not who he says he is. When his brothers get in trouble with gangsters, Charlie inadvertently gets dragged into the chaos and is forced to rejoin the family he once fled.
Faces
Faces (1968)
, 2h10
Directed by John Cassavetes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel, Fred Draper, Val Avery

The film, shot in cinéma vérité-style, depicts the final stages of the disintegrating marriage of a middle-aged couple. We are introduced to various groups and individuals the couple interacts with after the husband, Richard Forst's (John Marley), sudden statement of his desire for a divorce. Afterwards, Richard spends the night in the company of brash businessmen and prostitutes, the wife with her middle-aged female friends and an aging, free-associating playboy they've picked up at a bar. The night proceeds as a series of tense conversations and confrontations occur, illustrating where the modern American lifestyle has failed to nourish the interests, love lives, and emotional/spiritual fulfillment of these characters. Nearly everyone we meet expresses deep dissatisfaction with their lives and also a resigned attitude to this malaise. The film offers little hope, only a suggestion that in this world merely understanding that we're unhappy or dissatisfied is a revelation.