Movies Like Slot Machines

If you liked Slot Machines (1976), a movie directed by Bernard Launois, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
★ 7.7/10
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
2
Chaos (2001)
★ 6.4/10
A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady…
3
Pimp (2018)
★ 6.2/10
An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…
4
Desire (2011)
★ 6.3/10
In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cécile, a character who symbolizes desire.
5
L'Argent (1928)
★ 7.1/10
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
6
Party Girl (2014)
★ 6.7/10
Angélique is a 60-year-old bar hostess. She still likes to party, she still likes men. At night, she makes them drink, in a cabaret by the French-German border. As time goes by, clients become rare. But Michel, her…
7
Working Girls (1987)
★ 6.3/10
A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.
8
Irma la Douce (1963)
★ 7.4/10
When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.
9
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
★ 6.2/10
As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two children takes to prostitution to help pay the bills.
10
Thank You, Life (1991)
★ 6.2/10
Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the…
11
Trans-Europ-Express (1966)
★ 6.6/10
A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script.
12
Luna (2018)
★ 6.2/10
A film in which the director captures the beautiful and accurate qualities of reality when building the energetic portrait of a 16-year-old girl immersed in the macho culture of urban suburban south-west France, just a…
13
Killer's Kiss (1955)
★ 6.3/10
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The…
14
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne (1945)
★ 6.9/10
A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute.
15
Milk Money (1994)
★ 6.5/10
Three young boys pool their money and pay V, a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster…
16
Lost in Paris (2017)
★ 6.1/10
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.
17
Street Flow 3 (2026)
★ 6.1/10
Grieving and facing the consequences of their crimes, the Traoré brothers get one last chance to forge a new path.
18
A Very Curious Girl (1969)
★ 6.2/10
Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of economic gain and an instrument of revenge against those who have wronged…
19
Élisa (1995)
★ 6.4/10
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past…
20
Strange Darling (2024)
★ 6.9/10
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.