Films like House of Pleasures
The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.
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Sound and Fury
Film · 1988 · also dramaThis drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his ti...
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Vivre Sa Vie
Film · 1962 · also dramaTwelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
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The Margin
Film · 1976 · also dramaA businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.
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Pretty Baby
Film · 1978 · also dramaIn 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.
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Simon Killer
Film · 2012 · also dramaA recent college graduate flees to Paris after a break-up, where his involvement with a prostitute begins to reveal a potentially dark recent past.
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Irreversible
Film · 2002 · also dramaA woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an anim...
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La Balance
Film · 1982 · also dramaA Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an informant.
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Nathalie...
Film · 2004 · also dramaParis doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more abou...
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Quills
Film · 2000 · also dramaIn early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writings continue to circulate beyond its walls. As the authorities tighten...
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Divines
Film · 2016 · also dramaIn a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in t...
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