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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Thai
Description
When Som and Bank meet for the first time in the sprawling metropolis of Bangkok, they are strangers. Bank doesn't know that Som is a hooker, and Som doesn't know Bank is a drug dealer. Soon they become partners, and the drug deals they make bring them a kind of wealth they have never known. With a taste for the highlife, they plan a deal that will make them rich beyond their wildest imagination. But they soon find the price they pay, may be way...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 95 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This controversial and daring film from director Lynne Stopkewich (Kissed, The L Word) focuses on a young, married woman who seduces the faceless men that pass through her stifling world. Feeding her growing desire to test the waters between emotional pleasure and pain, she dives deeper into her own unrealized darkness, uncertain whether she will survive the Suspicious river.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 101 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett) from the rain slicked gutters of Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny, and revenge. Scarlet street is Fritz Lang's 1945 remake of Jean Renoir's 1931 La chienne.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Julian Kay is on the prowl and looking for someone to please. Boyish and sensual, he speaks five or six languages, and is equally comfortable as a chauffeur for a wealthy middle-aged matron, and as a translator/companion for the lonely wife of an executive. He is the American gigolo. But Julian's love-for-sale lifestyle turns deadly when a client is murdered and Julian becomes the prime suspect."--Container.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen ; Fullscreen
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([8] p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.)
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic and a prostitute meet in Las Vegas and form a bond based on unconditional acceptance and mutual respect that will change each of them forever.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (244 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1870s London, a prostitute known as Sugar sees a potential way out of the brothel she works for when she is taken in by William Rackham, the son of a wealthy businessman.
7) Bare witness
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A videotaped encounter between a hired killer and a beautiful call girl inadvertently links a prominent member of the business community to the planned assassination of a high-ranking politician.
8) Zipper
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam Ellis is a man on the rise, a hot-shot prosecutor on the cusp of a bright future. When an impossibly gorgeous intern at the office becomes infatuated with, he unwisely attempts to quiet his desires by seeing a high class escort, only to become addicted. A second and third appointment follows and his once idyllic life spirals out of control. When he finds himself being groomed to run for U.S. Congress, he must take measures to keep the press, the...
9) The American
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a job ends more violently than expected, Jack retreats to the Italian countryside and accepts one last assignment to construct a deadly weapon for a mysterious contact. But when he pursues a relationship with a beautiful local woman, he may be tempting fate by stepping out of the shadows. Jack soon finds himself in an escalating battle to escape from his secretive past.
10) Shoot 'em up
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mr. Smith is not the best idea for looking after a child, yet after stumbling upon a blazing shoot-out, helping to birth a child amidst a hail of gunfire, and seeing the mother die before his eyes, he becomes determined to protect the young innocent at all costs. His adversaries are equally determined, and they will not stop until the newborn is dead. Now, in order to ensure that maniacal criminal mastermind Mr. Hertz and his gang of henchmen do not...
11) Unforgiven
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version; tenth anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.
Publisher
Facets Video, distributor
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 76 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Rosario, una joven campesina, se entrega por amor a su novio sin sospechar que él la engaña con otra. La decepción y el dolor por la muerte de su padre hacen que la joven huya a Veracruz y se convierta en prostituta. Una noche, Rosario conoce a Alberto, un marino del cual queda prendada. Tras pasar una noche de amor juntos, el destino les revela una cruel sorpresa."--Container.
"Rosario (Palma) becomes a prostitute after losing her father and...
13) Pretty woman
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vivian is a spirited, streetwise prostitute working on Hollywood Boulevard. She meets the prince of her dreams in Edward Lewis. Edward is a ruthless and wealthy businessman who does not realize that she could be more than just a girl from the sidewalk. He changes his decision after the first night with the beautiful stranger. Edward hires her for a week of business events in Beverly Hills. Vivian gets the chance to start life over again.
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In 1964 Paris, Madeleine works as a shoe salesgirl and a part-time prostitute. She falls in love with Jaromil, a Czech doctor she picks up, and the two continue to see each other for years despite Madeleine's marriage to another man. Meanwhile, Madeleine's daughter Vera has romantic trouble of her own: she is torn between her longtime boyfriend and an unobtainable American musician.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (480 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Christine Reade is a second year student at Chicago-Burnham Law School and a new intern at the prestigious firm of Kirkland & Allen. Working hard to establish herself at the firm, her focus quickly shifts when a classmate introduces her to the world of transactional relationships. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price. Juggling two very different lives, Christine quickly finds herself drawn...
16) Risky business
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Standard and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This comedy explores the teen dilemma of growing up good-hearted but guilt-ridden. Joel's parents are going on vacation and leaving him in charge of the house. They trust their college-bound 17-year-old son but they shouldn't. No sooner do Joel's parents step on the plane when he raids the liquor cabinet, has a joyride in Dad's Porsche, and has a night of passion with a young call girl named Lana.
17) Revanche
Series
Criterion collection volume 502
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Director approved special ed.; widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop and his seemingly content wife.
18) Redeeming love
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sold into prostitution as a child, Angel knows nothing but betrayal. Can her heart ever be mended?
19) The gauntlet
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000], c1999
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cop's assignment to escort a witness turns into a gauntlet through an obstacle course of raging gunfire, blazing cars, swooping helicopters, murderous ambushes, crazed bikers and crooked police.
20) Zipper
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sam Ellis is a man on the rise, a hot-shot prosecutor on the cusp of a bright future. When an impossibly gorgeous intern at the office becomes infatuated with, he unwisely attempts to quiet his desires by seeing a high class escort, only to become addicted. A second and third appointment follows and his once idyllic life spirals out of control. When he finds himself being groomed to run for U.S. Congress, he must take measures to keep the press, the...
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