Movies Like Memoirs of a French Whore
If you liked Memoirs of a French Whore (1979), a drama movie directed by Daniel Duval, 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.
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Pimp (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAn 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…
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Midnight Cowboy (1969)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaJoe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to…
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaYoung Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels…
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with…
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Speak (2004)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaFreshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles…
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaAfter Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their…
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Heatwave (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.
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Monster (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaIn 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, Aileen's limited education lands her back on the corner. She's raped by a…
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Mysterious Skin (2005)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaA teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaTwelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
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Consent (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaIn 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. The victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary, and psychic, there's more…
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Disclosure (1994)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
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King Cobra (2016)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaIt’s 2006, YouTube is in its infancy, and internet porn is still behind a paywall. Taking the stage name Brent Corrigan, a fresh-faced, wannabe adult video performer is molded into a star by Stephen, a closeted gay…
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Saint Jack (1979)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaJack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he…
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Joe (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaThe rough-hewn boss of a lumber crew courts trouble when he steps in to protect the youngest member of his team from an abusive father.
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Sebastian (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaMax is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym…
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Party Girl (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaAngélique 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…
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
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The Nines (2007)
★ 6/10Also dramaA troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
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Lovelace (2013)
★ 6/10Also dramaStory of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.