Girls of easy virtue are often called representatives of the oldest profession. Each person has his own attitude towards them, but many like to read books about courtesans and watch films about girls who are prostitutes. We present to your attention a list of the best films about girls and women of easy virtue, which are worth watching, because they will help you learn more about the representatives of the ancient profession. Before looking at the selected picture, we suggest reading information about it in our review.
Cheeky (2020)
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.9
- Director: Eduard Ogenesyan
- Russia
In detail
In a small southern town surrounded by fields and hopelessness, three faithful friends are working tirelessly: Marina, Luda and Sveta. Their profession is dangerous and difficult, but they do the best they can. The girls work as prostitutes on the track, but they dream of starting a new better life and engaging in an ancient profession. In addition, before their eyes, a vivid example is their friend Zhanna, who returned from the capital in a brand new car, who managed to earn money and tie up with the past.
Call Student (Mes chères études) 2010
- Genre: romance, drama
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 5.9, IMDb - 6.1
- Director: Emmanuel Bercot
- France
19-year-old Laura is having an extremely difficult time, and even small official jobs do not help her make ends meet. There is enough money for her studies, but sometimes the question arises - can she buy food today? Desperate, the student decides to respond to a tempting ad - an elderly Frenchman offers a lot of money for a night with a young girl. Laura naively believes that this is a radical measure, which she is ready to take only once, but this is not so.
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle) 1966
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.9, IMDb - 6.8
- Director: Jean-Luc Godard
- France
The main role in the film was played by the wife of Vladimir Vysotsky, Marina Vlady. A young housewife named Juliette has to go to the panel. A woman takes such a desperate step in order to feed her son and husband. The family does not know where the money suddenly comes from, but sooner or later everything secret becomes clear.
Intergirl (1989)
- Genre: romance, drama
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.3, IMDb - 7.1
- Director: Petr Todorovsky
- Sweden, USSR
Peter Todorovsky's film "Intergirl" with Elena Yakovleva in the title role at one time made a lot of noise in perestroika Russia. Leningrad nurse Tatyana Zaitseva dreams of living richly, and therefore in the evenings she moonlights as a foreign exchange prostitute. She wants to become happy and go abroad, where she will have a respectable life with her foreign husband. She stubbornly pursues her dream, completely unaware that happiness does not lie in money and escape to another country.
Cabiria Nights (Le notti di Cabiria) 1957
- Genre: Drama
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 8.0, IMDb - 8.1
- Director: Federico Fellini
- France, Italy
The world in which Cabiria lives is dirty and cruel. She makes her living by prostitution in one of the poorest neighborhoods. Unlike her prostitute friends, she does not become cynical and angry. The girl is too naive and kind to notice how big the gap between her life and ordinary people who live, not survive. Cabiria does not lose hope of meeting a worthy man who will marry her and take her away from the slums and pimps.
Kuprin. Pit (2014)
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.8, IMDb - 6.4
- Director: Vlad Furman
- Russia
The mini-series is based on the famous story of Alexander Kuprin about the existence of a brothel with the telling name "Yama". The girls who find themselves in the institution are forced to serve customers day and night. But, like ordinary women, they fall in love and suffer, get angry and dream. And, of course, they dream of getting out of the hole into which they fell - it does not matter, of their own or someone else's will.
Point (2005)
- Genre: Drama
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.9, IMDb - 6.2
- Director: Yuri Moroz
- Russia
Three provincial girls with completely different fates dream of living in the capital, but once they get to Moscow, they become prostitutes. Now their whole life is spent at one point - the point at which they are filmed by clients. Somewhere between beatings and humiliations, spending the night in a wretched room and the hatred of others, they want to forget forever about what they are doing and dream of starting a normal human life.
Young and Beautiful (Jeune & Jolie) 2013
- Genre: Drama
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.7, IMDb - 6.7
- Director: Francois Ozon
- France
At first glance, seventeen-year-old Adele has nothing to dream of - the girl has a prosperous family and does not have any special problems faced by her peers. But the girl does not feel love and wants to know herself better. Therefore, she decides to open her sensual sides and for this she begins to sell herself for money to elderly men. When one of them dies during sex with Adele, her secret life becomes apparent, and loved ones find out what the girl is actually doing in her free time.
Pretty Woman 1990
- Genre: Comedy, Romance
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.9, IMDb - 7.0
- Director: Garry Marshall
- USA
"Pretty Woman" is perhaps the most famous movie story about prostitution and the most beloved by viewers of all ages. After the financial tycoon Edward Lewis took a fancy to a moth named Vivien during a night trip around the city, he invites her to his room. Despite the fact that there is an unconditional gap between their social status and upbringing, he categorically cannot let go of this woman. Yes, and Vivienne understands: what she begins to feel for this rich man is not at all the feelings of a call girl for her next client.
House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close)) 2010
- Genre: Drama
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.1, IMDb - 6.7
- Director: Bertrand Bonello
- France
The plot of the picture tells about one of the brothels of the early twentieth century, falling into decay. Parisian bourgeois come to a brothel to get beautiful bodies in exchange for money, and girls working in a brothel dream more than anything else in the world to escape and start all over again. They live their lives in a closed world called the House of Tolerance, and each of them has their own sufferings, feelings and secrets.
Dangerous Beauty (1998)
- Genre: Biography, Romance, Drama
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.8, IMDb - 7.2
- Director: Marshall Herskovitz
- USA
The events of the picture unfold in Venice in the 16th century. Veronica Franco has all the best qualities that can be in a girl: she is smart, beautiful and young. She has only one drawback - poverty, which means that she, as a dowry, will never be able to marry her lover, an aristocrat named Marco. The girl's mother, who in the past made a living by prostitution, persuades Veronica to become a courtesan - this is the only way for her and her family to survive.
Day Beauty (Belle de jour) 1967
- Genre: Drama
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.5, IMDb - 7.7
- Director: Luis Buñuel
- Italy, France
A faithful and respectable woman named Severina is bored with her usual life. As an experiment, she decides to try herself as a prostitute. A woman gets a job in a small brothel, where she goes to work during the day, in order to return in the evening as if nothing had happened to her husband. In a brothel, where she fulfills all the whims of clients, her name is "Beauty of the Day", and at home no one even suspects that Severina leads a double life.
Malena (Malèna) 2000
- Genre: military, romance, drama
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.8, IMDb - 7.5
- Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
- USA, Italy
Rounding out our list of the best films about girls and women of easy virtue, which are worth watching, the famous film "Malena" with Monica Bellucci. This woman is idolized by men and cursed by women. She is the obsession of all the men in the area. Dirty rumors are spread about her and, in the end, under the burden of circumstances, Malena has to become a prostitute for the German soldiers who occupied her homeland.