The Five Obstructions (2003), Two Hands (1999), The Sea Watches (2002), Chameli (2004), Tea in the Harem (1985), I Can't Sleep (1994), Pretty Baby (1978), Saawariya (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Red-light District movies.
Storyline: In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, "The Perfect Human," starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrator poses questions about their relationship and humanity. Years later, Danish director Lars von Trier made a deal with Leth to remake the film five times, each under a different set of circumstances and with von Trier's strictly prescribed rules. As Leth completes each challenge, von Trier creates ever more elaborate rules for the contest.
Plot Keywords: filmmaker, man, woman, director, chilling, fascinating, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A 19 year old (Heath Ledger) finds himself in debt to a local gangster (Bryan Brown) when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money. Rose Byrne co-stars as a country girl with whom Ledger starts a romance on his trip.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: bank robber, country girl, promoter, gangster, teen boy, dark, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 19th century. Oshin is a prostitute in a brothel of a red-light district. A disgraced samurai, Fusanosuke, rushes in the brothel seeking for a refuge, because he had wounded a powerful samurai. Oshin hides him from the authorities and falls in love with him, against an older prostitute's, Kikuno's, misgiving. Fusanosuke advises Oshin to cleanse herself by giving up her line of work. Believing falsely that this is a promise for marriage, she turns her customers over to the other prostitutes, who are happy to help her. Funasukoke leaves to be reconciled to his family, but, when he returns, he reveals that he is engaged and is going to marry his fiancé. Some time later a desperate itinerant, Ryosuke, appears and Oshin falls in love again. Meanwhile, an older man asks Kikuno to buy her contract and marry her, but she is entangled with an old abusive customer of hers. One night, while the madam of the brothel is away to thermal baths, a storm hits the area and everybody tries to flee. Ryosuke kills Kikuno's customer who tries to steal madam's money and runs away. Oshin and Kikuno stay at the roof hoping for a rescue from the flood. Ryosuke returns by a boat.—Alkistis Zografou
Plot Keywords: geisha, samurai, veteran, businessman, gangster, madam, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lamington Road on Bombay's Western Railway is the nearest railway station that takes one to Kamathipura, notorious for it's red-light, in particular, and a crime-prone area in general. It is in this area, on a stormy rainy day, that wealthy Aman Kapoor's car breaks down. His efforts to call for help via his cell phone are in vain, and he takes shelter in a nearby building. This is where he comes in contact with a prostitute named Chameli - and this is where his nightmare involving pimps, eunuchs, prostitutes, and corrupt police officers - will begin - and will seem to have no ending whatsoever.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: young man, young woman, wealthy man, prostitute, gripping, intense, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a depressing concrete Parisian suburb in the seventies two friends are keeping boredom at bay with loitering and petty crime.
Plot Keywords: algerian, teen boy, sister, prostitute, single mother, junkie, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1980s Paris, a series of murders captures public attention. Meanwhile, the gorgeous Daiga (Yekaterina Golubeva) moves from Lithuania to Paris, immigrant musician Theo (Alex Descas) struggles to raise his young son, and Theo's brother, a gay transvestite named Camille (Richard Courcet), sings and dances in a cabaret for a living. All three grapple with isolation and the problems of modern living, but one of them could be so desperately alienated that they have a hand in the serial murders.
Plot Keywords: beautiful woman, musician, transvestite, lover, son, aunt, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sparks fly when wandering singer Ranbir Raj (Ranbir Kapoor) arrives in a mystical town and meets charming prostitute Gulabji (Rani Mukherjee). Gulabji directs Raj to a local boarding house, and he begins to explore his new home. But soon the restless Raj meets the stunning Sakina (Sonam Kapoor), a young Muslim who spurns his advances. As Gulabji pines for the handsome musician, Raj falls hard for the elusive Sakima -- who secretly harbors her own unspoken desires.
Plot Keywords: singer, prostitute, muslim, landlady, mysterious man, grandmother, melodramatic ...
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