WOMEN OF THE NIGHT

By: Kenji

Street of Shame

Prostitutes, geisha, courtesans, sexual entertainers…..

The list below is in year order. Suggestions welcome.

Tokyo Decadence

• 01
  Traffic in Souls
  George Loane Tucker
• 02
  Café Electric
  Gustav Ucicky
• 03
  The Docks of New York
  Josef von Sternberg
• 04
  Outcast
  William A. Seiter
• 05
  Pandora's Box
  Georg Wilhelm Pabst
• 06
  The Sin of Madelon Claudet
  Edgar Selwyn
• 07
  Virtue
  Edward Buzzell
• 08
  Stolen Heaven
  George Abbott
• 09
  The Threepenny Opera
  Georg Wilhelm Pabst
• 10
  Shanghai Express
  Josef von Sternberg
• 11
  Every-Night Dreams
  Mikio Naruse
• 12
  Apart from You
  Mikio Naruse
• 13
  The Goddess
  Wu Yonggang
• 14
  Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
  Mikio Naruse
• 15
  Oyuki the Virgin
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 16
  Sisters of the Gion
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 17
  The Straits of Love and Hate
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 18
  Yoshiwara
  Max Ophüls
• 19
  Primrose Path
  Gregory La Cava
• 20
  Stagecoach
  John Ford
• 21
  Les dames du Bois de Boulogne
  Robert Bresson
• 22
  Back Streets of Paris
  Jacques Feyder
• 23
  Desire
  Roberto Rossellini
• 24
  Dedee D'Anvers
  Yves Allégret
• 25
  Without Pity
  Alberto Lattuada
• 26
  Women of the Night
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 27
  Thieves' Highway
  Jules Dassin
• 28
  The Devil's Wanton
  Ingmar Bergman
• 29
  White Beast
  Mikio Naruse
• 30
  The Adventuress
  Alberto Gout
• 31
  Le plaisir
  Max Ophüls
• 32
  The Life of Oharu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 33
  A Geisha
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 34
  An Inlet of Muddy Water
  Tadashi Imai
• 35
  The Wayward Wife
  Mario Soldati
• 36
  The Crucified Woman
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 37
  Boot Polish
  Prakash Arora
• 38
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 39
  East of Eden
  Elia Kazan
• 40
  Adolescence
  Heinosuke Gosho
• 41
  Teaserama
  Irving Klaw
• 42
  Floating Clouds
  Mikio Naruse
• 43
  Street of Shame
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 44
  Child of Sorrow
  Lamberto V. Avellana
• 45
  Susaki Paradise: Red Light District
  Yuzo Kawashima
• 46
  Flowing
  Mikio Naruse
• 47
  Black River
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 48
  The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era
  Yuzo Kawashima
• 49
  The Flesh Is Weak
  Don Chaffey
• 50
  Nights of Cabiria
  Federico Fellini
• 51
  The Undead
  Roger Corman
• 52
  Room 43
  Alvin Rakoff
• 53
  The Flower in Hell
  Shin Sang-ok
• 54
  Adua and Her Friends
  Antonio Pietrangeli
• 55
  The Big Night
  Mauro Bolognini
• 56
  Rocco and His Brothers
  Luchino Visconti
• 57
  The World of Suzie Wong
  Richard Quine
• 58
  Never on Sunday
  Jules Dassin
• 59
  Walk on the Wild Side
  Edward Dmytryk
• 60
  Mamma Roma
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 61
  Pigs and Battleships
  Shôhei Imamura
• 62
  Vivre sa vie
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 63
  The Female: Seventy Times Seven
  Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
• 64
  The Red Lights
  Vasilis Georgiadis
• 65
  The Balcony
  Joseph Strick
• 66
  The Stripper
  Franklin J. Schaffner
• 67
  Irma la Douce
  Billy Wilder
• 68
  The Insect Woman
  Shôhei Imamura
• 69
  Of Human Bondage
  Ken Hughes
• 70
  A House Is Not a Home
  Russell Rouse
• 71
  Marnie
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 72
  Only On Mondays
  Kô Nakahira
• 73
  The Dirty Girls
  Radley Metzger
• 74
  Men and Women
  Walter Hugo Khouri
• 75
  The Flower and the Angry Waves
  Seijun Suzuki
• 76
  Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  Vittorio De Sica
• 77
  Gate of Flesh
  Seijun Suzuki
• 78
  Little Girls
  Gilbert Wolmark
• 79
  Flesh and Lace
  Joseph W. Sarno
• 80
  Story of a Prostitute
  Seijun Suzuki
• 81
  Irezumi
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 82
  Moonlighting Wives
  Joseph W. Sarno
• 83
  Another Day, Another Man
  Doris Wishman
• 84
  Aroused
  Anton Holden
• 85
  The Thunder of God
  Denys de La Patellière
• 86
  The Oldest Profession
  Claude Autant-Lara
• 87
  2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 88
  The Touch of Her Flesh
  Michael Findlay
• 89
  Belle de jour
  Luis Buñuel
• 90
  The End of a Priest
  Evald Schorm
• 91
  Inferno of Torture
  Teruo Ishii
• 92
  Camille 2000
  Radley Metzger
• 93
  The Best House in London
  Philip Saville
• 94
  The Appointment
  Sidney Lumet
• 95
  The Ballad of Cable Hogue
  Sam Peckinpah
• 96
  Copacabana Mon Amour
  Rogério Sganzerla
• 97
  The Owl and the Pussycat
  Herbert Ross
• 98
  Evdokia
  Alexis Damianos
• 99
  Klute
  Alan J. Pakula
• 100
  Duffer
  Joseph Despins
• 101
  McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  Robert Altman
• 102
  Pakeezah
  Kamal Amrohi
• 103
  The Devil
  Andrzej Żuławski
• 104
  Ichijo Sayuri: Following Desire
  Tatsumi Kumashiro
• 105
  Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable
  Shunya Ito
• 106
  Cinderella Liberty
  Mark Rydell
• 107
  Night of the Felines
  Noboru Tanaka
• 108
  The World of Geisha
  Tatsumi Kumashiro
• 109
  Emine
  Ömer Kavur
• 110
  Maîtresse
  Barbet Schroeder
• 111
  What Have They Done To Your Daughters?
  Massimo Dallamano
• 112
  Confidential: Secret Market
  Noboru Tanaka
• 113
  Brothel No. 8
  Kei Kumai
• 114
  Street of Joy
  Tatsumi Kumashiro
• 115
  Justine
  Jesús Franco
• 116
  Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  Chantal Akerman
• 117
  Blue Jeans
  Mario Imperoli
• 118
  Las poquianchis
  Felipe Cazals
• 119
  The Watcher in the Attic
  Noboru Tanaka
• 120
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 121
  Shirin's Wedding
  Helma Sanders-Brahms
• 122
  Blue Rita
  Jesús Franco
• 123
  SS Girls
  Bruno Mattei
• 124
  Madame Rosa
  Moshé Mizrahi
• 125
  The Gauntlet
  Clint Eastwood
• 126
  Bilbao
  Bigas Luna
• 127
  Memoirs of a French Whore
  Daniel Duval
• 128
  Pretty Baby
  Louis Malle
• 129
  The cricket
  Alberto Lattuada
• 130
  Prostitute
  Tony Garnett
• 131
  Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
  Emir Kusturica
• 132
  Lola
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 133
  La truite
  Joseph Losey
• 134
  The Missionary
  Richard Loncraine
• 135
  Chicken Ranch
  Nick Broomfield
• 136
  Fanny Hill
  Gerry O'Hara
• 137
  La balance
  Bob Swaim
• 138
  Love Hotel
  Shinji Sômai
• 139
  Crimes of Passion
  Ken Russell
• 140
  Streetwise
  Martin Bell
• 141
  Mona Lisa
  Neil Jordan
• 142
  Street Of Departures
  Tony Gatlif
• 143
  Ticket
  Im Kwon-taek
• 144
  Tokyo Bordello
  Hideo Gosha
• 145
  Rouge
  Stanley Kwan
• 146
  Working Girls
  Lizzie Borden
• 147
  Story of Women
  Claude Chabrol
• 148
  Salaam Bombay!
  Mira Nair
• 149
  Freeze, Die, Come to Life
  Vitali Kanevsky
• 150
  Last Exit to Brooklyn
  Uli Edel
• 151
  Pretty Woman
  Garry Marshall
• 152
  Frankenhooker
  Frank Henenlotter
• 153
  Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 154
  Paprika
  Tinto Brass
• 155
  Whore
  Ken Russell
• 156
  Unforgiven
  Clint Eastwood
• 157
  Tokyo Decadence
  Ryû Murakami
• 158
  A Foreign Field
  Charles Sturridge
• 159
  True Romance
  Tony Scott
• 160
  Rue Princesse
  Henri Duparc
• 161
  Exotica
  Atom Egoyan
• 162
  Casino
  Martin Scorsese
• 163
  Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam
  Nick Broomfield
• 164
  Mighty Aphrodite
  Woody Allen
• 165
  Cyclo
  Tran Anh Hung
• 166
  California
  Abel Ferrara
• 167
  Bitter Sugar
  Leon Ichaso
• 168
  Moll Flanders
  Pen Densham
• 169
  Leaving Las Vegas
  Mike Figgis
• 170
  Sélect Hôtel
  Laurent Bouhnik
• 171
  L.A. Confidential
  Curtis Hanson
• 172
  Downfall
  Im Kwon-taek
• 173
  Carmen 1945
  Hideo Gosha
• 174
  Mr. Fifteen Balls
  Francesco Nuti
• 175
  Hotel
  Mike Figgis
• 176
  A New Life
  Philippe Grandrieux
• 177
  Teenage Hooker Becomes a Killing Machine
  Gee-woong Nam
• 178
  The Center of the World
  Wayne Wang
• 179
  Bad Guy
  Kim Ki-duk
• 180
  Moulin Rouge!
  Baz Luhrmann
• 181
  City of God
  Víctor González
• 182
  A Tale of a Naughty Girl
  Buddhadev Dasgupta
• 183
  Today and Tomorrow
  Alejandro Chomski
• 184
  La vie promise
  Olivier Dahan
• 185
  Lilya 4-ever
  Lukas Moodysson
• 186
  Monster
  Patty Jenkins
• 187
  2046
  Wong Kar-wai
• 188
  The Whore's Son
  Michael Sturminger
• 189
  Woman of Breakwater
  Mario O'Hara
• 190
  In the Darkness of the Night
  João Canijo
• 191
  Rosario Tijeras
  Emilio Maillé
• 192
  Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
  Zana Briski
• 193
  Sakuran
  Mika Ninagawa
• 194
  Salvation
  Paul Cox
• 195
  Born from Pain
  Alex & Niko
• 196
  Drifter
  Sebastian Heidinger
• 197
  Revanche
  Götz Spielmann
• 198
  The Camp Followers
  Valerio Zurlini
• 199
  Promised Land
  Amos Gitai
• 200
  Marilena from P7
  Cristian Nemescu
• 201
  Poor Jenny
  Urban Gad
• 202
  The Photograph
  Nan Triveni Achnas
• 203
  Call Girl
  António-Pedro Vasconcelos
• 204
  Sweet Food City
  Gao Wendong
• 205
  Diary of a Nymphomaniac
  Christian Molina
• 206
  Sex Volunteer
  Cho Kyong-duk
• 207
  The Girlfriend Experience
  Steven Soderbergh
• 208
  Beautiful Awakenings
  Frédéric Chane-son
• 209
  Special Treatment
  Jeanne Labrune
• 210
  Into Temptation
  Patrick Coyle
• 211
  Utopia
  Sohrab Shahid Saless
• 212
  Jamila and the President
  Ratna Sarumpaet
• 213
  A Part of My Life
  Oscar Cárdenas
• 214
  Silver Girls
  Saara Waasner
• 215
  Big Tits Zombie 3D
  Takao Nakano
• 216
  Chassis
  Adolfo Alix Jr.
• 217
  The American
  Anton Corbijn
• 218
  The Alien Girl
  Anton Bormatov
• 219
  House of Tolerance
  Bertrand Bonello
• 220
  Memories of My Melancholy Whores
  Henning Carlsen
• 221
  Whores' Glory
  Michael Glawogger
• 222
  Eden
  Megan Griffiths
• 223
  Like Someone in Love
  Abbas Kiarostami