Sex work

  • Voices from the Fire

    Voices from the Fire

    Documentary

    2022

    1h.19min

    12 FSK

    This powerful documentary puts the spotlight on a harrowing abuse: modern slavery and human trafficking.


  • Rising Sun Blues

    Rising Sun Blues

    Documentary, Independent

    2022

    1h.23min

    16

    A filmmaker, a sex worker – two women break down barriers, play with power, and expose the voyeuristic eye of the camera.


  • Working Girls

    Working Girls

    Crime, Drama

    2020

    1h.31min

    16

    WORKING GIRLS is a gripping, character-driven drama about three resilient prostitutes navigating complex lives and dark secrets in a Belgian brothel.


  • Boarding Gate

    Boarding Gate

    Drama, Thriller

    2006

    1h.46min

    16 FSK

    Trapped in a world of global financial transactions and erotic S&M games, Sandra (Asia Argento) tries to escape the clutches of her ex.


  • The End of Wonderland

    The End of Wonderland

    Documentary, Queer

    2021

    1h.25min

    18

    Artist and sex-industry veteran Tara Emory tries to finish her video porn opus before her landlord kicks her out of her Wonderland studio.


  • Rent Boys

    Rent Boys

    Documentary, Queer

    2011

    1h.23min

    12 FSK

    This authentic documentary follows male sex workers from Bahnhof Zoo in Berlin as they work, shedding light on the issue of male prostitution.


  • Ladies of the Wood

    Ladies of the Wood

    Love & Sex, Queer

    2021

    1h.32min

    16+

    This fairy tale-tinged documentary explores the urban forest of Paris where trans sex workers and their clients meet.


  • The Phantom of the Sauna

    The Phantom of the Sauna

    Music, Dance, Theater, Queer

    2021

    1h.33min

    16+

    This LGBTQ musical revolves around Javi, a young sex worker, and his quest for love and happiness.


  • Searching Eva

    Searching Eva

    Documentary, Queer

    2019

    1h.34min

    16 FSK

    Eva, 25, living in Berlin, leads a public life with all the consequences. At 14 she took a new name and declared privacy an outdated concept.


  • The unman documentary

    The unman documentary

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.5min

    16+

    The life story of a charismatic but questionable figure from Vienna's red light milieu, Heinz Sobota.


  • Sex/Life in L.A.

    Sex/Life in L.A.

    Love & Sex, Queer

    1998

    1h.30min

    16 FSK

    An insight into the world of gay porn stars and nude models - behind the scenes and undiscovered fields of a creative part of social reality.


  • Ritual for the Whores

    Ritual for the Whores

    Love & Sex

    2017

    22min

    16

    What does society's image of sex work say about its relationship to women's work, sexual morality, gender, migration, and poverty?


  • Ants Pact

    Ants Pact

    Drama

    2014

    20min

    16+

    Teenaged sex worker Paul finds refuge with a stranger.


  • Sexarbeiterin

    Sexarbeiterin

    Documentary, Independent

    2016

    1h.36min

    18

    Lena Morgenroth, sex worker and computer scientist, is the opposite of the miserable cliché of prostitutes and offers an insight into her live.


  • The Good American

    The Good American

    Biography, Documentary

    2009

    1h.32min

    18 FSK

    A portrait of Tom Weise, one of the initiators of HustlaBall, a project to promote the acceptance of male prostitutes.


  • Lilya 4-ever

    Lilya 4-ever

    Crime, Drama

    2002

    1h.44min

    12 FSK

    Tempted by big promises, teenager Lilja follows a man to Sweden. But once there, everything is different than promised.


  • Five Sex Rooms and One Kitchen

    Five Sex Rooms and One Kitchen

    Love & Sex, Documentary

    2007

    1h.19min

    16+

    This documentary is a down to earth look into the everyday life of a female-run brothel.