What are the movies that are at some point related with escort or prostitution

[protagoras]

There's an array of movies dealing with this matter.

For a change, I'll list some movies that are not in English. (tis is a very partial list)

1) La dame aux Camélias (1952) with Micheline Presle and Roland Alexandre
2) Shunpunden (Story of a prostitute) a 1965 Japanese movie directed by Seijun Suzuki
3) Karuyaki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (Japan, 1975)
4) Hong Fen Blush (China, 1995)
5) Born into Brothels (India, 2004). It's a documentary.
6) Chandni bar (India, 2001)
7) Umrao Jaan (India, 1981)
8) Chameli (India, 2003)
9) Auf den Anderen Seite (litterally: On the Other Side) (Released in English with the following title: The Edge of Heaven). Turkish-German production (2007)
10) When the Moon is dark (Danemark, 2006) http://www.danishdoc.dk/when_the_moon_is_dark_uk.html
11) Lille soldat (litterally: Little Soldat) Danemark, 2008. I especially like that movie because it's the story of a woman driving escorts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7683uWWBpZg
12) Lylia 4-ever by one of my favorite Swedish poet/cineast: Lukas Moodysson (Sweden 2004)
13) Gebroken Spiegels (Broken Mirrors) (Netherlands, 1984) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3ponzQYtc (This is the German trailer)
14) Anny- en gatepiges roman (litterally: Anny - Story of a street hooker ) Norway 1912.
15) Le notti de Cabiria (Italy 1957) a classic Fellini movie
16) Princesas (Spain 2005) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x94qh9_princesas-bande-annonce-vost-fr_shortfilms
17) La puta y la ballena (Argentina 2004)
18) Anjos do sol (Angels of the Sun) Brazil 2006.

 

[hungry101]

What about "Chloe"?

Wasn't Chloe a prostitute?

 

[Doc Holliday]

What about "Chloe"?

Wasn't Chloe a prostitute?

Quite true. It was one of my favorite movies last year. I love Liam Neeson!

I believe i wrote a review of this movie in the movies thread.

(I also love Atom Egoyan's movies)

 

[protagoras]

There's a classic movie dealing with prostitution that doesn't appear yet on the list: Louis Malle's 1978 masterpiece: Pretty Baby with a very young Brooke Shields.

 

[CS Martin]

Moderators, I know I'm getting a little off topic here. However, please indulge me this once. Does it occur to anyone that with all these movies touching on the subject of prostitution that perhaps the general public has a secret unmet desire to more fully understand and observe its history & culture?

 

[hungry101]

Quite true. It was one of my favorite movies last year. I love Liam Neeson!

I believe i wrote a review of this movie in the movies thread.

(I also love Atom Egoyan's movies)

Yes i watched it based on your recommendation and it was quite good. I just wish they wouldn't of killed off Chloe at the end. too much of a chliche.

 

[hungry101]

Moderators, I know I'm getting a little off topic here. However, please indulge me this once. Does it occur to anyone that with all these movies touching on the subject of prostitution that perhaps the general public has a secret unmet desire to more fully understand and observe its history & culture?

Yes you are correct CS. There seems to be a mystique arund this sort of thing. It is all in the closet. Very few will admit that they see prostitutes and very few woman will admit to turning tricks.

 

[Merlot]

Hello all,

Nude Kathleen Turner is always a good thing...

But Merlot forgot to mention, Anthony Perkins as the Preacher

Hey Shijak. It was great to talk to you and the others again recently. I just copied the synopsis for the film.

Yes, Perkins plays a psychotic preacher with issues of his own while trying to "save the soul" of China Blue. It's an interesting film. From long ago memory: the main male lead is a guy frustrated in seeking sexual openness with his sexually stunted wife, and China is a businesswoman with deep sexual issues towards men in "normal" relationships who explores her desires through prostitution. This summary may not be totally accurate, but it's close.

There's a classic movie dealing with prostitution that doesn't appear yet on the list: Louis Malle's 1978 masterpiece: Pretty Baby with a very young Brooke Shields.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Baby_(film)

I've never seen this movie. What I do know about it is from editorials and the wiki I just read.

First let me set the time frame for the movie. It's set in 1917 at a time when ages of consent were horrifyingly low. I just Googled "age of consent U. S. history". Most states (and many countries) had consent ages between 10-12. One state, Delaware, is recorded as having an age of 7 in the 1880s, that's 1250 years after Mohammed.

Regardless of historic relevancy, after having seen part of a documentary, which I could not stomach for much time, on men attempting to justify, and indeed sanctify their interest in young girls as alleged women, Pretty Baby comes off as a gross device on it's own, that also inadvertently indulges what these "men" were trying to justify. "When the brothel closes, Bellocq and Violet wed, ostensibly to protect her from the larger world. He is much older, however, and others question his motives in marrying her. They live together in his isolated house."

I'm not trying to open up the age of consent issue, but personally the idea of a real 12 year old playing a prostitute in the film is too disturbing...never mind the concept regardless of the age of the actress...factual or not.

Does it occur to anyone that with all these movies touching on the subject of prostitution that perhaps the general public has a secret unmet desire to more fully understand and observe its history & culture?

I didn't think it was a secret at all generally speaking, only individuals keep their own activity "secret". I for one, have never and will never take the risk of letting anyone away from Montreal know. But as previously mentioned, the real history could be more unsettling than previously considered. What we may have thought was more foreign wasn't once.

Cheers,

Merlot

 

[eric19671967]

There is also this quite dark 2008 Quebec movie
Derriere-moi (Behind Me) de Rafael Ouellet
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289391/

 

[StefanoUS]

I'm not trying to open up the age of consent issue, but personally the idea of a real 12 year old playing a prostitute in the film is too disturbing...never mind the concept regardless of the age of the actress...factual or not.

Merlot

Disturbing? That's why it's called ACTING Merlot. It's a profession where many different roles are entered into throughout an actors career. Yes Brooke was 12 when playing the part, but she wasn't actually engaged in sexual acts!

Pretty Baby put Brooke into the hollywood spotlight. Shields is also a graduate of Princeton University. Jodie Foster was 14 when she played Iris, a preteen prostitute in Taxi Driver. That movie made her a star. Foster is a graduate of Yale University.

Take care.

 

[sin]

Nathalie, with Emmanuelle Béart (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348853/)
Liste noire, with Geneviève Brouillette (http://www.cinemovies.fr/fiche_film.php?IDfilm=8165)

 

[CS Martin]

I'm not trying to open up the age of consent issue, but personally the idea of a real 12 year old playing a prostitute in the film is too disturbing...never mind the concept regardless of the age of the actress...factual or not.

Disturbing? That's why it's called ACTING Merlot. It's a profession where many different roles are entered into throughout an actors career. Yes Brooke was 12 when playing the part, but she wasn't actually engaged in sexual acts!

Pretty Baby put Brooke into the hollywood spotlight. Shields is also a graduate of Princeton University. Jodie Foster was 14 when she played Iris, a preteen prostitute in Taxi Driver. That movie made her a star. Foster is a graduate of Yale University.

Stef,
Now you know I hate to agree with Merlot on anything, other than the sky is sometimes blue. That being said, he has a point. Justifying an actress “just doing her job”, regardless of her background and education, is to elude the more important issue. Any depiction of a sexual act (whether legal or illegal) in a film should serve to fulfill to storyline and artistic intention of the piece. Pretty Baby was much too gratuitous with respect to what they needed to accomplish artistically. Brook Shield’s Blue Lagoon was much more tasteful and appropriate while touching on sexual discovery in youth.

Jeez, I just read what I wrote above and sounded way too much like Merlot. Better yet, ignore me….
CS

Note to self: Go back and take your medicine idiot before you further embarrass yourself with any more intellectualism.

 

[Merlot]

Hello all,

Disturbing? That's why it's called ACTING Merlot. It's a profession where many different roles are entered into throughout an actors career. Yes Brooke was 12 when playing the part, but she wasn't actually engaged in sexual acts!

Pretty Baby put Brooke into the hollywood spotlight. Shields is also a graduate of Princeton University. Jodie Foster was 14 when she played Iris, a preteen prostitute in Taxi Driver. That movie made her a star. Foster is a graduate of Yale University.

Take care.

Tatum O'Neal won an Academy Award and became a star for her work in Paper Moon at the age of 10. She did not play a prostitute.

Okay, what does becoming a star, or graduating from Princeton have to do with the appropriateness of children on film in the part of a prostitute, especially nude? From what I have read, Shields was nude in full view for at least one scene, though she wore a body stocking for most other nude scenes. I don't see how the cause of... "acting"... "art"...or "professionalism" of any kind could ever make the idea less disturbing.

I'm sure that had the film been less "exposing", Shields would still have gotten the same stardom.

Depending on one's perception or definition of "art" any subject can be handled in a multitude of ways. In my opinion a real film artist can achieve the same effect by making creative choices. Resorting to the nudity of a 12 year old is not creative or necessary.

As hard as it may be to believe I've never seen Taxi Driver either, and I am still unaware if Jodie Foster appeared in the same way as Brooke Shields. From the synopsis I just read it seems like the nudity may have been left out.

Nudity or age isn't the real issue either. It's appropriateness, and I just don't think that despite the subject it was appropriate...and yes I do realize the standard of appropriate is subjective, but in this case I don't see it any other way.

Pretty Baby was much too gratuitous with respect to what they needed to accomplish artistically.

Agreed, and I have no qualms about saying so.

Cheers,

Merlot

 

[hungry101]

Disturbing? That's why it's called ACTING Merlot. It's a profession where many different roles are entered into throughout an actors career. Yes Brooke was 12 when playing the part, but she wasn't actually engaged in sexual acts!

Pretty Baby put Brooke into the hollywood spotlight. Shields is also a graduate of Princeton University. Jodie Foster was 14 when she played Iris, a preteen prostitute in Taxi Driver. That movie made her a star. Foster is a graduate of Yale University.

Take care.

I remember watchng Pretty Baby years ago and thinking it was a good movie. I vaguely rememeber that scene where the the men at the brothel were auctioning off a night with Broke a 12 y.o. virgin...it was disturbing. It was also thought provoking, moving, and entertaining. Who would want to have sex with a 12 y.o. virgin? Yikes? If you object to this movie because it propogates a sterotype that hobbyests want this sort of thing than I agree.


What about the blockbuster Taken?
Remember there was a ring of eastern Euripean men that were kidnapping young woman and strapping them down to beds and injecting them with heroin so that they would become addicted and dependant on the drug. This inturn would gaurentee that the addicted girls would turn tricks to get more drugs? What a crock of shit that move was. What a pile of smultz!

 

[CS Martin]

. Who would want to have sex with a 12 y.o. virgin? Yikes? I fyou object to this movie because it propogates a sterotype that hobbyests want this sort of thing than I agree.

A valuable tool in understanding another is to imagine you're them. Actors call it method acting or something. I've imagined myself as a pedifile, a "agency owner" and a SP with differing success. It's hard to understand or imagine the thoughts of a pedifile. More so, the thought of any SP under 24 seems quite boring.....The thought of auctioning a 12 y.o. virgin while disturbing to some, seems to hit the "boring" mark more acurately. Pretty Baby was potentially a "period piece" souped up with just enough scandal to sell well at the box office. Brook Shields mother sold her down the river on that one. A career error.

 

[Siocnarf]

How about this erotic movie: Emmanuelle (1970's) I, II, III, IV, etc.....(not sure how many movies) ?

I'm sure some of you, remember!

I remember watching some of those on Bleu Nuit when I was a teen. :nod:
One was indeed about a journalist “investigating” a prostitution network.

“Breaking the wave” was a dutch movie I saw 15 years ago. Its about a young mentally unstable woman whose husband becomes paralyzed in an oil-rig accident. She gradually becomes the town’s harlot when he urges her to live his erotic fantasies. I won't give away the ending but it's very tragic and disturbing. The actress gives a great performance and the cinematogrpahy is very beatiful as I recall.

On a lighter note, Fargo has a few short but very amusing scenes with escorts (Where can a guy find some action around here? I’m going crazy out there at the lake!)

 

[quest]

Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood and Lonesome Dove http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096639/

 

[protagoras]

A Peruvian comedy : Mañana te cuento. (2006)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446574/

One actress playing in this movie, the torrid Angie Jibaja (she's exactly my type of Latina woman!), is not a comedy act. She spent two years in prison in 2008 because she was accused of assault and battery charges after she attacked another girl in a club in Miraflores.


http://www.myspace.com/angiejibajamusic/photos/16523697#{"ImageId":16523695}

 

[Siocnarf]

So did I Siocnarf!

It was on Saturday nights, around midnight (I think). Lets just say, I "explored" my body alot. lolll :eyebrows:

Me too . and the VCR was an invaluable tool for these studies. I'm glad I experienced porn before the internet. Waiting a whole week to see new pairs of boobies builds character!

 

[RobinX]

"The Best Screen Hookers In History: A Montage"
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2011/09/post_10.php