red light district movies

Irma la Douce (1963)
7.426 / 10

Romance

When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and creates an alter ego who’s to be her only...

Backbeat (1994)
6 / 10

Drama, Music

Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon,...

Milk Money (1994)
6.3 / 10

Comedy, Romance, Drama

Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then...

The Golden Glove (2019)
7 / 10

Crime, Thriller

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

Princesses (2005)
6.727 / 10

Drama

Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after...

Tattoo (2002)
6.1 / 10

Thriller, Drama, Crime

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief...

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)
6.862 / 10

Documentary

Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the...

Business Is Business (1971)
5.7 / 10

Comedy, Drama

The story of two prostitutes working in the Amsterdam Red Light district, and the many strange and unusual men they meet through their work.

Gunaa (1991)
7.1 / 10

Romance, Thriller, Drama

Guna, a mentally-disturbed man, imagines a fictitious character of a woman to be his future wife. One day, he sees a girl in a temple and assumes...

Lala Pipo: A Lot of People (2009)
6 / 10

Drama, Comedy

Adapted from a sex-stuffed cult novel, LALAPIPO (a play on the phrase “A Lot of People”) follows divergent seedy strands of sexual and narrative...

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District (1956)
7 / 10

Drama

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...

Hautnah (1985)
10 / 10

Crime, TV Movie

Private eye Dold, a specialist in surveillance tasks, is sent to investigate a Frankfurt bordello boss. He's a pain in the butt for many in the...

Pleasure Factory (2007)
4.5 / 10

Drama, Romance

A series of intertwining tales involve "pleasure seekers and pleasure providers" during the course of one night in Geylang, Singapore's red-light...

Sexwork & Me (2012)
1 / 10

Documentary

21st century legal prostitution through the frank stories of Amsterdam red-light district sex workers at a time when tighter regulation threatens...

Daughter of Time (1980)
0 / 10

Drama

A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former...

Ein deutscher Boxer (2012)
0 / 10

Documentary

Sexwork, Love & Mr Right (2013)
0 / 10

Documentary

Amsterdam's world-famous red-light district is the fascinating backdrop to the story of plucky prostitute Lina as she searches for Mr Right. Lina...

The Virgin Trade Sex, Lies and Trafficking (2006)
4.6 / 10

Documentary

An investigation into the nature of the sex trade in Thailand.