Greatest Films About and Around The Oldest Profession

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Three short stories about pleasure.

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.

Two geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other sister sets up various schemes to get rid of him.

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.

A day in the life of a Parisian housewife/prostitute, interspersed with musings on the Vietnam War and other contemporary issues.

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

A young man leaves his native town in southern France to discover Paris. Being too unexperienced and too naive, he drops into the reality of Paris 1991. He soon gives up his dream of becoming an actor and prostitutes himself. Throughout all these modern relationships, he keeps his innocence but becomes very emotionally blocked.

Follows a woman's fight and survival amid the vicissitudes of life and the cruelty of society.

A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.

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.

It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells happiness), five prostitutes decide to celebrate the day. Erotism, drama, and comedy mix as each hour, and a different event passes, in which all the women's stories come to the surface.

A Havana bar girl with a tough "protector" falls for a young sailor.

Suspecting her husband of infidelity, gynecologist Dr. Catherine Stewart hires an escort named Chloe in order to test his faithfulness. Soon, the relationships between all three intensify.

A rich woman hires an elite prostitute in order to verify her husband's faithfulness. Before long the experiment gets out of control.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

An injured thief on the run finds sanctuary within a brothel of united, ruthless women.

In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.

Los Angeles escort Julian Kay is accused of a murder which he did not commit.

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

A former prostitute relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society. But perverse secrets simmer beneath the wholesome surface.

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.