Favorite movies about stripping or the sex industry

Dancing at the Blue Iguana.

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The Ranch

The Girlfriend Experience (starring Sasha Grey)

Spun (has a strip club and stripper in it)

Funny cameo stripper scene with Steve Caroll in "The Big Short." Steve's not looking for extras, just wants to understand if this stripper understands adjustable rate mortgages. Turns out she has 5 homes and a condo:

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I agree with you regarding Striptease. They had a chance to do so much better - and they didn’t really portray the industry properly.

One movie that I loved was Leaving Las Vegas - as I liked the characters dependency on each other and the depressing nature of their lives.

Hardcore was an old movie that was pretty amazing - and one of the first legit movies to delve into porn.

I found 8 mm to be impressive - and interesting too. It’s not for everyone - but it was worthwhile.

A movie from the 80’s Vice Squad was rough - but interesting -

Obviously Boogie Nights was a critical success - and popular I guess.

I will post more when I think of them. I’m not a real Nick Cage fan - even though two of the films have him as their star.

Of course it's well-known that government lending to the poor caused the financial crisis. Right Burlington?

The movie that is the whoring equivalent of the Olive Garden to Italian food - Pretty Woman - lol!

Some of these are movies that I love and have just forgotten about. The Girlfriend Experience was great and I've been meaning to check out the series spin-off on cable. Dancing at the Blue Iguana and the Ranch were both surprisingly good. I have not seen Spun, Hardcore, or Vice Squad, so I'll have to check those out.

@Cashman1234, I agree about Nicholas Cage. He's made a few good movies, but in general he's a hammy over-actor. If it weren't for his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, he'd probably be working the door at a club on Hollywood boulevard or something, still waiting for his big break. But I loved Leaving Las Vegas.

BurlingtonHF I agree on Nicholas Cage as he’s the king of over the top hammy performances. However, I could deal with his performance in Leaving Las Vegas - since I loved the story - and I thought Elizabeth Shue was impressive.

He was also in 8mm - which was interesting - and the subject was less savory.

@RandomMember, it's funny, I actually just rented The Big Short the other day. I guess that scene with the stripper is what prompted my question. I liked the movie. They managed to make a dry topic into something funny and interesting. I wasn't happy that they completely glossed over the role the government played in the financial crisis, but what can you do?

The movie implies that the only thing that the government did wrong was to not regulate the market heavily enough. But the US government had actually been directly pushing more and more people to buy homes since at least the 70s. Then they put the whole thing on steroids in the 90s. HUD told Fannie and Freddie to increase the percentage of their portfolio that is subprime, so they did. Fannie and Freddie told banks to make as many subprime loans as they could, because they would buy anything that the banks had for sale, even the garbage. And the rest is history. Everyone was just stupid, never believing that the housing market could have a sustained collapse. It wasn't a conspiracy, it was stupidity. Stupidity facilitated by the federal government.

And now everyone wants to blame the banks for the bailouts. Let me ask you this: if a dog is begging at your table and someone steals your food off your plate and feeds it to the dog, who do you blame, the dog or the thief?

Anyway, I still liked the movie. You don't have to agree with the political leanings of a movie to enjoy it. I liked Miss Sloan, even though I'm against gun control. (That's another movie that has a sex worker in it, btw. A gigolo.)

"Showgirls" with Elizabeth Berkley, Gina Gershon, Rena Riffel, et al. "Lap Dancing" with Lorissa McComas "Dancing at the Blue Iguana" with Daryl Hannah, Kristin Bauer, Jennifer Tilly, et al.

Marisa Tomei does a great job as as stripper in The Wrestler. She was in her mid-40's when she made the movie.

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Body Double, Melanie Griffith

JackSlash - I remember her performance - and she was excellent. The look of the club reminded me of a dirty Jersey strip club. Mickey Rourke was pretty good as the main character too.

Most believable stripper/escort:

1. Elizabeth Berkeley in Showgirls
2. Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler
3. Sasha Grey in The Girlfriend Experience (duh, not really acting)

Honorable mentions: Juno Temple in Afternoon Delight Julia Stiles in Blue Billie Piper in Confessions of a Call Girl

Funniest strip club scene - "Varsity Blues" at the Landing Strip in Austin.

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I loved the Wrestler, too. I think every PL can see a tiny bit of himself in Mickey Rourke's character and his interactions with Marisa Tomei's character. It's true that the club in this movie really does look and feel like a typical grimy New Jersey club, and I wouldn't be surprised if they filmed on location. In fact, there's a stripper I know who looks a lot like Marisa Tomei at a local club; we once discussed this movie together.

Love the strip club LDK scene from "The Internership"

That's impressive reboot time!

grrr. Internship

Did anyone ever watch Jennifer Love Hewitt's show The Client List. She runs a massage parlor and gives happy endings.

@yahtzee74, I probably should have seen it. I shied away from it because it was on Lifetime and I always assume that Lifetime's programming is crap. It did look interesting though. Plus I grew up with Jennifer Love Hewitt's cleavage.

Also the series The Girlfriend Experience starring Riley Keough

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@pensionking, yep, mentioned that earlier. It looks pretty good. I'm recording the first season on my DVR now and I'm going to binge-watch it once I have the whole season. Btw, I think Riley Keogh is Elvis' granddaughter.

I agree BurlingtonHF- I see that in Mickey Rourke’s character too. He was a convincing PL in the club.

Pensionking - thanks for the link to those scenes. That’s hot -

Love Boogie Nights! Rollergirl BBBJ FTW!!!

And let's not forget Zombie Strippers with Jenna Jameson.

Also give a shout out for Vanessa Ferlito giving a civie LD to Kurt Russell in Deathproof.

Rollergirl was Heather Graham.

Players club of course

I gotta second Lap Dancing with Lorissa McComas. It reminds me of when I was a teenager before the internet and those HBO/Showtime softcore movies were the easiest jerk off material for a young lad like myself to access.

I love the scene where she gives her first lap dance, an air dance. Then the dude LDK82 style says 'I thought this was a lap dance' and pulls her down onto his crotch and grinds the hell out of her.

Or the girl who gives her FS extras outside in an alley behind the club. She tries to make small talk with the dude and he goes 'if I wanted to talk I'd be home with my wife. Now are we gonna fuck or what??!!'

the girl next door. 2004 unrated version.

Obviously Pretty Woman is the go-to.

Player's Club was pretty cool though, it's a black movie. "It's bitches like you... who make it harder for women like me!" Great quote, great scene. Lol.

Flashdance - Jennifer Beals...mmm...maniac... youtu.be

Also I liked the champagne room scene in Go.

Porky's

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Bachelor Party

Pretty women is stupid and pathetic , that shit is a dumb love story not a whore movie

The best whore movies are foreign

La prepago (PUTA) on netflix

Student services is a FRENCH WHORE MOVIE , girl Sucks dicks in cars lol

mexican movie Just walking starring diego luna , Great BBBJ CIM SCENE SOMETHING YOU WILL NOT GET IN AMERICAN CINEMA !!!!

I always laugh at the strip club scene in Independence Day - "I just came in to pick up my check and got talked into working".

Is there really any club, any where, where the dancers get paychecks?

Demi Moore's $12,000,000 tits and ripped MILF-bod in Striptease. I've never seen the whole movie, to my knowledge there's only one full frontal scene with bare breasts, but I would definitely DVR it and fast forward to that scene. 10/10

@justme62 said "the girl next door. 2004 unrated version."

I liked that movie. Is the unrated version worth renting? Maybe I should check that out

@PoolyD, I can't remember a stripper scene in I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell. But that movie was basically the apogee of Bro Culture. So I wouldn't be surprised that was at least one scene in a titty bar.

@TFP said "those HBO/Showtime softcore movies were the easiest jerk off material for a young lad like myself to access."

Totally agree. I'm getting sentimental here. Does anyone remember Red Shoe Diaries? Or Beverly Hills Bordello? Memories...

@gammanu95, you've never seen Striptease? I mean it wasn't that bad. Demi Moore has always been hot. She still is. Those tits were amazing and worth every penny. Anyway, Burt Reynolds was a fucking riot in that movie. Was it a stupid movie? Yes, but still probably worth watching once.

To be honest, even Showgirls is watchable. Stupid, but watchable. These movies are a window into how society views the women who sell their bodies and the men who pay for them. They both became cultural touchstones in their day. 1996 was the first year that Bruce Willis supported the Democratic candidate for president because Bob Dole (the GOP candidate) actually attacked Demi Moore on the stump for making Striptease. Seriously, that happened.

I agree with you regarding Burt Reynolds in Striptease - as his performance was very funny. The look of Demi Moore’s body was very sexy in that movie too.

Showgirls was fun to watch too. I enjoyed it because of a few scenes. Or I should say - I find Gina Gershon to be hot - and I should probably keep that to myself.

If we are talking stripper scenes - then From Dusk Till Dawn deserves mention - as Salma Hayek was incredible in that club scene!

Gina Gershon is -or was- pretty fucking hot. Look her up in film called "Bound.". You're welcome.

I agree gammanu95. Bound is one of my favorite Gina films - as she and Jennifer Tilly were hot in it. I guess saying it’s one of my favorite Gina G films is misleading - as I only have 2 faves!

@gammanu95 - that continuous shot sex scene in Bound with Gershon & Tilly was hot af!

From Dusk Til Dawn (duh)

Also Gigi, (Truffaut's?) La Ronde, Breakfast at Tiffany's (well, she IS charging for tricks after all; and the novella is better because it doesn't have the crappy obvious saccharine contrived ending), Risky Business, and of course the greatest strippers references ever are in...

Caddy Shack

Mmmm...Jessica Alba...Sin City...also Rosario Dawson is hot in it too. Good call mdfmk88. I spaced that.

Chloe - Amanda Seyfried plays a call girl for Liam Neeson. She's so fucking hot in it. Get to see her wonderful tits.

Probably one of the most accurate depictions of PL/dancer dynamics in a feature film is the 2001 indie The Center of The World. Socially awkward dot-com jillionaire makes a bargain with a stripper for a junket in Vegas. Pornstar Alisha Klass has a cameo as a background dancer.

@WillMunny, agreed, I had forgotten about that one, it is realistic.

There are now a few movies I will be enjoying this weekend. Chloe and The Center of the World.

Sin City is worth watching - just to see Jessica Alba on stage.

Excalibur!!!

Synopsis: King Uther Pendragon visits "Club Cornwall" after a war to unify all of England. At the club, he falls for an air dance SS from Igraine, the club's only dancer and wife of Cornwall. He uses the wizard Merlin to get BBFS extra ITC from Igraine while Cromwell is away. Because he went BB, Igraine gets pregnant and eventually has Arthur who becomes the king that unified England.

At its core it is a cautionary tale for PLs that practice BBFS. Here is the club scene with Igraine's ROB air dance:

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Ugh, sorry. Copied wrong clip and I meant to say Cornwall not Cromwell. Here's a better clip:

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@Burlingtonhofactory I remember both those Showtime series. I loved Beverly Hills Bordello and always said when I was older I'd try to find such a place. Only problem is I'm not rich like the clients in that show. Still, I loved it! Over 20 years later I distinctly remember one episode. A cop showed up to the house and had his way with every woman in the house in exchange for not shutting the place down. Then finally he went after the madam herself who secretly filmed their encounter and got rid of him.

@BHF you remember that Showtime show Sherman Oaks? Show about a rich plastic surgeon who had a wife and a mistress, a son who used to act black, a tall, blond, huge titted daughter, and a sexy housekeeper who used to get fucked in every episode. I remember I used to always jerk off to that daughter. Don't know her name but I'm sure some Google searching would help me find her.

@SirLapdancealot, LOL, that's imaginative :)

@TFP, I always promised myself the same thing about finding my own Beverly Hills Bordello. I'm not rich either so I guess the titty bar will have to do. I don't think I started watching internet porn until like 2002 or 2003, so those cable shows were a godsend. I especially loved every episode with Nikki Fritz in it. (She also played one of the strippers in the aforementioned movie Go.) Can't say that I remember the series Sherman Oaks, but I probably did watch it at least once.

Atlanta had a couple of good bordellos in the 90s. I miss those places.

@joc13, were they upscale classy places?

Requiem for a Dream. It covers the backstory of the gawker narrative pretty well.

Jennifer Connolly is a tragic beauty in Requiem. The woman is gorgeous and can act. Such a powerful movie. A cinematographic masterpiece.

Requiem for a Dream was also ahead of its time in 2000 regarding the heroin factor. Back then, everyone I knew was more like, eww, a heroin addict vs. present day where RickDugan types are rubbing their hands together hoping a girl will get back on the shared needle to increase their chances of OTC.

Holy shit went looking for the blond chick I was talking about from Sherman Oaks and found out those huge boobs almost cost her her life.....sad stuff.

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She was so hot 20+ years ago. Looks so different now.

Oh and @BHF Nikki Fritz was my one of my dream girls when I was 16! I remember if I ever saw her name in a starring role for one of those soft core movies I was VHS recording that shit for sure!

@BHF not Beverly Hills classy, but classy for Atlanta. Both were in nice old houses, set far back off the road, with out of sight parking.

The downstairs were set up as a bar/lounge. You could make an appointment, or you could just show up, get a drink, talk to the girls, and pick one you liked to go upstairs with. One of the houses had an empty dining room that made a nice dance floor and some of the girls would slow dance with the guys. Great foreplay.

@TFP, yeah Nikki Fritz was hot AF back then. I think she used to be available as an escort. Not that that's unusual, about a third of adult film actresses are also P4P girls. At that time, I just didn't have the money, otherwise I would have pulled the trigger for sure.

@ppwh, @SirLapdancealot, thanks, I think I'll check out Requiem for a Dream. I grew up in Brooklyn and I remember Coney island (where it takes place) pretty well, so it should be nostalgic for me. Plus I always thought Jennifer Connelly was hot.

@joc13, that sounds like a pretty nice setup. I still prefer the SC environment, but I would check out a brothel if I knew of one. I'm sure it wouldn't be anything like it looks on tv, but how bad can it be? The problem is that you're either in the know or you're not. And I'm not. There are probably brothels operating quietly all over the country that we just don't know about.

@BHF Requiem is up high on my list as one of the greatest movies ever. The visuals, music, and acting is all perfect and it is a work of art. But note that it is a heavy movie that sucks you into the story of addiction. And although Jennifer is so beautiful in it, it is Ellen Burstyn that steals the show.

Requiem for A Dream is one of those movies that is so emotionally draining, that although it's almost as perfect as a film can get, it is not a movie I can watch often. I don't even own it, and I have a large DVD & blu ray collection of great films. I wouldn't count it as a sex-industry film though; the sex-industry is consequential of the drug use. The movie is about drug use, recreational and non-recreational.

Raise the Red Lantern, Farewell My Concubine, and Memoirs of a Geisha are all good and all have my hottie Gong Li in them.