An exercise in gentle voyeurism revealing glimpses of the secret side of Salvador, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Bahia, filming a derelict prostitution zone.
Putito is a production with no specific genre, where reality and fiction blend through a testimony written by José Carlos Henríquez - a feminist activist and male prostitute who plays himself in the project. Available in a censored and uncensored version.
A documentary about the girls of the Mustang Ranch, a legal brothel in Nevada.
Ava
A choral story of women who worked as prostitutes and the feminist debate on abolitionism and regulation, through their life stories, desires and convictions.
The Naked Dance is the first documentary about America's legendary legal red-light district that thrived in New Orleans from 1898 until World War I. Storyville got its name when Alderman Sidney Story attempted to clear up the New Orleans waterfront by restricting prostitution to a specific neighborhood. To his chagrin, the area was dubbed "Storyville," and it was so known until the U.S. Navy closed it for good in 1917.
Hidden cameras capture prostitutes working the streets of the neon-soaked gambling mecca of Atlantic City.
La revuelta de las putas
Il mercato dei posti letto
Documentary on the daily life of a sexual masseuse in Berlin.
Short documentary about a transexual sex worker.
Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975.
Les Filles sans joie des petites routes
British filmmaker Beeban Kidron ventures onto the mean streets of the South Bronx and other New York locales to examine the lives of those involved in the city's thriving sex industry.
Documentary on the "Chicken Ranch," a legal Nevada brothel.
This exploitation classic purports to expose the secrets of the 1960s lesbian underworld.
Interviews with a procurer and with nineteen boys and young men who are prostitutes in Prague. The youths range in age from 14 to 19. They hustle at the central train station and at clubs. Most of their clients are foreign tourists, many are German. The youths talk about why they hustle, their first trick, prices, dangers, what they know about AIDS, their fears (disease and loneliness), and how they imagine their futures. The film's title, its liturgical score, much of it elegiac, and shots of the city's statues of angels underline the vulnerability and callow lack of sophistication of the young men.
Russ Meyer's documentary about the underground vice world of Europe.
Documentary about the 1993 "Whore Culture: A Festival of Sex Work" event in Toronto.
A portrait of Santos Port, its geography, workers and the life that surrounds it, including the poor, prostitutes and the night life inhabitants.