Best Prostitution
Mrs. Warren's Profession is an 1893 play by George Bernard Shaw about Vivie Warren, an educated young woman who discovers that her mother accumulated wealth through prostitution and brothel ownership. Their confrontation allows Shaw to present prostitution as an economic consequence of restricted em...
Why this score?
Historically bold Shaw play with durable feminist and economic critique; melodramatic elements feel dated to some.
Scoring methodology
Crimes of Passion is a 1984 American erotic thriller directed by Ken Russell. Kathleen Turner plays a fashion designer who secretly works as a prostitute under another identity, while Anthony Perkins portrays a disturbed street preacher whose religious obsessions become central to the story. The fil...
Half Moon Street is a 1986 British-American thriller directed by Bob Swaim and based on Paul Theroux's novel Doctor Slaughter. Sigourney Weaver plays Lauren Slaughter, an American researcher in London who begins working as a high-class escort, while Michael Caine plays a diplomat drawn into her dang...
1992 American direct-to-video erotic thriller directed by Alexander Gregory Hippolyte, following a neglected housewife who secretly takes work as a high-class escort.
