Sex Work Movies

A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news...

When aimless Manon begins work at À mon seul désir, a strip club that offers high concept performances, she instantly bonds with her...

After being released from a juvenile detention center, Wellington finds himself alone and adrift on the streets of São Paulo, without any...

A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as...

This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.

Enter the universe of three mujra dancers in Pakistan as they dodge state censorship and violence to vie for stardom.

During a night fueled by bravado and peer pressure, a lonely boy tries to prove he’s a “real man,” with devastating consequences.

Japan around 1860: popular courtesan Asagiri will be freed soon from her service, yet she cannot imagine any other existence. Until one day at a...

“Beautiful, Pam” follows a Queer sex-worker, named Pam, in the midst of a mid-life crisis during the week of their son’s 18th...

Terry is a homeless drifter just trying to get by in a new city. But when his life is threatened, he attempts to escape with the help of Eva, a sex...

EMPOWER is a series of three portraits of sex workers with heterogeneous trajectories crossing paths of migration, Trans identities, feminism, the...

The current trend to render prostitution a profession "as any other" is belied by women who were themselves prostitutes. With clarity and courage,...

Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to...

Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas's sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to...

Based on a true story, this film immerses us in the life of Zoe, a young transsexual prostitute who, while living on the margins of society, she...

A lurid, dark look into the lives of sex workers, where victims of child abuse deal with the consequences later in life.

After not having seen each other in five years, Chris Terry goes to visit his younger sister Noelle Terry in Montréal. Their lives, both...

Haunted by the fear of becoming a "one-hit-wonder author," João grows increasingly anguished over his inability to produce a follow-up to his...

Close to paying off her debts, a Nigerian sex worker in Austria coaches a reluctant novice, and assesses the risks of taking a faster path to freedom.

A group of prostitutes in Rio de Janeiro who fight to obtain rights and reduce stigma, create a clothing label that quickly invades Brazilian fashion...