Highest-Rated Movies about 'Madam', Sort by Popularity

The Italian (2005), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Diamond Men (2000), Vengeance Is Mine (1979), Pakeezah (1971), Clue (1985), The Beales of Grey Gardens (2006), My New Partner (1984) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Madam movies.

#16. The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)

Storyline: Franco Arno is a blind man that lives with his young niece and makes a living writing crossword puzzles. One night, while walking on the street, he overhears a weird conversation between two man sitting in a car parked in front of a medical institute where genetic experiments are performed. The same night someone breaks in the institute and knocks out a guard. Arno decides to investigate with the help of reporter Carlo Giordani.—Giancarlo Cairella <vertigo@imdb.com>

Plot Keywords: madam, cowboy, prostitute, friend, townsperson, villain, lighthearted ...

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#17. Pretty Baby (1978)

Storyline: In 1917, in the red light district Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year-old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she works. Photographer Ernest J. Bellocq has an attraction to Hallie and Violet and he is an habitué of the whorehouse. One day, Madame Nell auctions Violet's virginity and the winner pays the fortune of US$ 400 to spend the night with the girl. Then Hattie marries a wealthy client and moves to Saint Louis, leaving Violet in the brothel alone. Violet decides to marry Bellocq and she moves to his house. Until the day that Hattie, who has overcome her past, comes to Bellocq's house with the intention to take Violet with her.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: prostitute, photographer, daughter, madam, husband, melodramatic, moving ...

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#18. Idaho (1943)

Storyline: Ex-outlaw Grey is now a respected judge out to close down Belle's saloon. Duke and Spike, who knew Grey when he was a criminal, arrive and team up with Belle. When Belle's threat to reveal Grey's past fails, Duke and Spike hold up the bank and frame Grey. Roy now sets a trap for the outlaws.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>

Plot Keywords: cowboy, judge, young boy, madam, gunslinger, saloon owner, suspenseful ...

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#19. Working Girls (1986)

Storyline: A day in the life of several prostitutes in an upscale Manhattan whore house. The film is a stark portrayal of the women prostitutes, the male customers and the motivations of both. Watch as the madam manipulates her "girls". Watch as she answers the phone by saying "Hello John, what's new and different?" Watch as the "johns" try to manipulate the "girls". Part nudie exploitation, part sociological thesis.—Mark Logan <marklo@west.sun.com>

Plot Keywords: prostitute, college graduate, madam, escort, client, coworker, cool ...

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#21. The Art of Love (1965)

Storyline: Painter Paul Sloan feels he's a failure, since nobody will buy his paintings. His art dealer informs him, that the works of an artist become much more wanted and valuable if the artist is dead. Therefore, Paul, together with his friend Casey Barnett, plans to fake his own suicide. However, it starts looking like Casey has murdered Paul and when Casey starts making a move for Paul's fiancée, he decides to get revenge. However, Paul falls in love with Nikki, who has also tried to commit suicide.—Anders E Lundin

Plot Keywords: painter, roommate, girlfriend, fiancé, madam, witty, offbeat ...

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#22. For Pete's Sake (1974)

Storyline: Henrietta Robins works out of her home and her husband Pete drives a cab to try to support her. When Pete gets a tip from one of his fellow drivers that a deal will be made by the Americans and the Soviets over pork bellies, he decides to invest in the market, but needs to $3000 to invest. Henrietta then goes to extreme lengths to get the money by dealing with first a loan shark, then a madame, then the mob and finally cattle rustlers. All this in the name of love.—Brian Washington <Sargebri@att.net>

Plot Keywords: housewife, cab driver, loan shark, madam, cattle rustler, sister-in-law, amusing ...

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#23. The Balcony (1963)

Storyline: Shelley Winters is the madame of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution which is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution.—bajac

Plot Keywords: madam, prostitute, police chief, employee, customer, amusing, outlandish ...

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#24. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)

Storyline: Founded in 1910 just outside of the city limits of Gilbert located in Lanville County, Texas, the Chicken Ranch has for generations been known as the best little whorehouse in Texas for its wholesome fun, strict moral code, and cleanliness, all perpetuated by its original owner, Miss Wulla Jean. Seven years ago, Miss Wulla Jean died, leaving the Chicken Ranch to her favorite working girl, Miss Mona Stangley, who wants to keep the same traditions of Miss Wulla Jean. The Chicken Ranch has always had the unofficial blessing of the local authorities, who see the ranch providing an important community service, one which most in local authority have used at one time or another in their lives. In fact, Miss Mona and Lanville County Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd have been in a relationship for years, Ed Earl, who is Miss Mona's protector, albeit one with a hot temper and good ol' boy attitude that doesn't exactly match the needs of his law upholding position. That blessing may change when television personality and consumer watchdog, Melvin P. Thorpe, one of the most powerful men in the state, starts an on-air exposé of the illegal activities at the Chicken Ranch, the exposé which includes Ed Earl's role in letting it happen. Ed Earl and Miss Mona's relationship goes through some difficult times on how to deal with this issue, especially with the upcoming annual party night with the players following the Thanksgiving Day football game between the University of Texas and Texas A&M, this party which is arguably the Chicken Ranch's busiest night of the year, and one filled with tradition for the ranch and the participating schools. Will the Chicken Ranch be able to remain open especially in light of a spineless Governor who sways to the direction of polls, and will Ed Earl and Miss Mona's relationship be able to withstand the pressure?—Huggo

Plot Keywords: madam, sheriff, governor, reporter, prostitute, football player, playful ...

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#25. Mary Reilly (1996)

Storyline: Somewhere in England in the nineteenth century. A pretty housemaid works in a nice house, which is Dr. Henry Jekyll's (John Malkovich's) house. Mary Reilly (Julia Roberts) think she found her best job, because she is poor and the doctor is well-known and rich. This movie tells the "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" story as a woman sees the two men, one of them is good and the other is evil. And she loves them.

Plot Keywords: dr. jekyll, mr. hyde, maid, servant, madam, father, chilling ...

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#26. The Babysitters (2007)

Storyline: At 17, high-school junior Shirley Lyner is thinking about college and running a babysitting service that provides teen call girls to the dads of young children. In a long flashback, we see what brought her from being a babysitter to organizing and running the service. It starts with Michael, the father of children she baby-sits. A cup of coffee on the way home from his house, a night visit to a train yard, and one thing leads to another. Shirley can be ruthless, and tension builds when some of the clients take the girls to a mountain cabin and bring drugs. Then, one of the girls tries to freelance. Can this end well: is it a tragedy in the making? Do we all have secrets?

Plot Keywords: teen girl, father, madam, prostitute, babysitter, teacher, crafty ...

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#27. Gaily, Gaily (1969)

Storyline: To escape sinful impulses, Ben Harvey, a callow youth, leaves his small town for Chicago in 1910. A pickpocket promptly relieves him of his money, and he nearly starves before Queen Lil takes him under her wing, gives him a room in her high-class bordello, and gets him a job at a newspaper. He's so sweet and dumb, he thinks Lil's is a boarding house. He's soon caught up in an electoral struggle between a secretly corrupt reformer and an openly corrupt councilman. Can Ben expose corruption or will he be caught up in allure of power? An alcoholic investigative reporter and the bordello's ingénue try to help him grow up.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: runaway, madam, prostitute, editor, friend, reporter, amusing ...

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#28. Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss (2004)

Storyline: In this biopic, after her boyfriend (Robert Davi) introduces her to the aging Madam Alex (Brenda Fricker), 27-year-old Heidi Fleiss (Jamie-Lynn DiScala) decides she's found her true calling. Fleiss starts her own prostitution service, recruiting Alex's girls by telling them their boss is an LAPD informant. Soon, she's making six figures providing sex and drugs to top actors and politicians. And when the authorities finally catch her, the scandal that erupts makes her an international celebrity.

Plot Keywords: madam, celebrity, prostitute, client, boyfriend, police chief, frenetic ...

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#29. Moll Flanders (1996)

Storyline: After her mother is executed as a thief, young Moll Flanders (Robin Wright) flees the orphanage in which she was placed and abused by a cruel priest, and eventually becomes a prostitute under the supervision of the deceitful Mrs. Allworthy (Stockard Channing). Her only ally is Allworthy's servant, Hibble (Morgan Freeman), a kind man who keeps her spirits up. Eventually, Moll falls for Jonathan (John Lynch), a charismatic artist who renews her faith in life and love.

Plot Keywords: prostitute, madam, servant, artist, priest, bleak, emotional ...

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#30. She's Just a Shadow (2019)

Storyline: A beautiful Japanese madam and her ladies. A deranged, drug-addled Tokyo gangster and his crew. A sadistic serial killer on the loose. The intersection of these stories, and the interior world of the characters, plays out against a dreamlike backdrop of ultraviolence and orgiastic sex, as everyone tries futilely to rewrite their futures and cheat death. A modern, dreamlike take on the gangster genre, She's Just a Shadow is the action-packed story of a matriarchal crime family engaged in a vicious gang war. A deranged killer is leaving his victims on railroad tracks all over Tokyo, and the only thing more dangerous than him is the vicious love triangle within the family itself.

Plot Keywords: prostitute, lackey, madam, pimp, serial killer, brutal, frightening ...

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