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16 films tagged sex work

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  • 2025 · Drama

    A Los Angeles cam performer is paid $50,000 to spend one night with a client who answers the door in a balaclava and starts asking him personal questions. Almost all of it is the two of them in one room.

    • Strongly intimate
    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Blue Film

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2024 · Comedy

    A Brooklyn sex worker meets the young son of a Russian oligarch, and a week of spending turns into a marriage his family has no plan to allow. Loud and fast, and the back half is mostly people arguing in cars and hallways.

    • Strongly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Anora

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Fucktoys

    Little-known

    2025 · Comedy

    A sex worker learns a curse can be lifted for a thousand dollars and a lamb, and sets off across a junk-strewn city on her moped to raise it. One long night of strange encounters, one after another.

    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Fucktoys

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Night Always Comes

    Little-known

    2025 · Crime

    A woman working every job she can get in Portland has one night to replace the $25,000 she had saved to buy the house she shares with her mother and brother. One night, and it gets uglier as it goes.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Night Always Comes

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2026 · Comedy

    Three sex workers in a conservative Peruvian town, replaced by women from abroad, set up their own business and take on the corrupt mayor. Broad political satire, played for laughs throughout.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Así no juega Perú

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • DC

    Little-known

    2026 · Action

    An outlaw who deals out the justice the courts will not falls for a bar singer, and when the police kill her he goes after them with a woman they brutalised. It is violent from early on.

    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: DC

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2007 · Crime

    A London midwife has the diary of a girl who died in childbirth translated, and it points her at a Russian family who run more than a restaurant. Quiet and slow, then suddenly not, more than once.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Eastern Promises

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2023 · Comedy

    A Victorian surgeon brings a drowned woman back to life, and she starts again from nothing, learning fast and then running off across Europe with a bad lawyer. Big sets, odd colors, and very blunt talk about sex.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Poor Things

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Shiva Baby

    Little-known

    2020 · Comedy

    A student turns up at a family shiva and finds her ex-girlfriend and the older man she has been seeing in the same crowded house. Seventy-eight minutes in one home, and it tightens the whole way.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Shiva Baby

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2022 · Horror

    A small crew drive out to a farm in 1979 Texas to shoot a dirty film in the barn, without telling the elderly couple who own the place what they are doing. Slow for a while, and then not.

    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: X

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1997 · Mystery

    Three very different Los Angeles cops in the 1950s work the same diner shooting from three directions. A lot of names to keep straight.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly complicated
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: L.A. Confidential

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Red Rocket

    Little-known

    2021 · Drama

    A washed-up adult film performer turns up broke at his estranged wife's house in Texas City and starts working on a seventeen-year-old at the doughnut shop. Sunny, and he never stops talking.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Red Rocket

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1976 · Drama

    An insomniac Vietnam veteran drives nights in New York and narrates his disgust with the city into a diary. Slow, and almost entirely inside his head.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Taxi Driver

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • The Chaser

    Little-known

    2008 · Thriller

    A former detective now running escorts realises the man who took two of his women picks them up himself, and goes after him through Seoul at night. Frantic, and the police are useless.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Strongly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Chaser

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2014 · Action

    A hardware store employee who cannot sleep helps a young woman he meets in a diner, and it turns out he used to do other work. Methodical, and very violent when it starts.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Equalizer

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2008 · Drama

    A wrestler twenty years past his best works weekend shows and a supermarket deli counter, and his heart gives out. Handheld, close, and shot from behind him.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Wrestler

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.