Pretty Baby

7.0

1978

110 mins

Drama

In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.

Walk on the Wild Side

Year : 1962Rating : ⭐ 6.6

At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam. The arrival of Dove Linkhorn, her lovesick sweetheart from three years ago, disrupts the normal and triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young woman he travelled with, who is now the Doll House's newest employee.

A Love Song for Bobby Long

Year : 2004Rating : ⭐ 6.8

A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.

12 Years a Slave

Year : 2013Rating : ⭐ 7.9

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

Rambling Rose

Year : 1991Rating : ⭐ 6.2

In the Deep South of the 1930s, Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and she knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men.

No Mercy

Year : 1986Rating : ⭐ 5.8

An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.

Simon Killer

Year : 2012Rating : ⭐ 5.9

A recent college graduate flees to Paris after a break-up, where his involvement with a prostitute begins to reveal a potentially dark recent past.

Welcome to the Rileys

Year : 2010Rating : ⭐ 6.6

Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Year : 2006Rating : ⭐ 7.4

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.

L.I.E.

Year : 2001Rating : ⭐ 6.8

With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing their neighbors' homes — until they make the mistake of robbing the house of Big John, a macho former Marine who is also an unrepentant pedophile. He propositions Howie, who declines, but the two eventually develop an unlikely and dangerous friendship.

sex, lies, and videotape

Year : 1989Rating : ⭐ 7.0

Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.

Sister My Sister

Year : 1994Rating : ⭐ 5.9

A true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close sibling relationship between the two maids takes on a new dimension as their overbearing employer discovers a sexual fever between the two sisters.

Cutter's Way

Year : 1981Rating : ⭐ 6.5

Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style.

Crimes of Passion

Year : 1984Rating : ⭐ 6.3

Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.

The Disappearance of Alice Creed

Year : 2009Rating : ⭐ 6.5

A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.

Hard Times

Year : 1975Rating : ⭐ 6.8

In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.

True Confessions

Year : 1981Rating : ⭐ 6.1

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Hands of Stone

Year : 2016Rating : ⭐ 6.6

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Year : 2004Rating : ⭐ 5.8

Young 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, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.

Shaft

Year : 1971Rating : ⭐ 6.4

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

The Dead Girl

Year : 2006Rating : ⭐ 6.0

The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to intersect.