About this product: This 30-minute documentary, "Prostitution: Beyond the Myths" takes a personal and up close look at prostitution from three women that have lived the lifestyle and have successfully gotten out, and now lead productive lives. Also featured are the viewpoints of pimps, a district court judge, a vice detective, counselors at the Women's Recovery Center and a research group. The film provides a successful approach utilized by a recovery program to assist women in getting out of prostitution. A positively uplifting message!
About this product: A candid look at the sex trade, supposedly by means of hidden cameras and microphones, Prostitution Pornography U.S.A. is a voyeur’s delight. This almost no holds-barred "documentary" includes interviews with the participating call girls, streetwalkers, and porno starlets.
About this product: Jordan Clark's tragic documentary provides a glimpse into Thailand's notorious and booming sex tourism industry through the experiences of a 19-year-old bar girl named Pla. Working in the bars from the age of thirteen, Pla has managed to avoid selling her body--a remarkable revelation given her surroundings--but her refusal to take part in this all-too-common profession for young Thai women cannot last. The introduction of falangs, or foreigners, to Thailand has forever changed the city, the economy, the Thai people's lives and desires. A daring and unabashed look at a popular Western predilection through the eyes of one girl, this film challenges the accepted worldwide practice of sex tourism.
About this product: Set in Calcutta's notorious red-light district, Born Into Brothels explores the lives of its most vulnerable citizens. Directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, the picture’s eight small subjects shot the still footage themselves. Briski first teaches them how to shoot and edit. The children then put her lessons into practice. They gain confidence as the film proceeds, yet there's always the threat that any of the girls, especially 14-year-old Suchitra, could be forced to "join the line" (work as a prostitute). For most, it's only a matter of time. The boys don't have it much better. Promising photographer Avijit's mother is gone and his father is a drug addict. "Without help," Briski notes, "they're doomed," so she takes matters a step further and tries to get them out of the brothels altogether. Produced for HBO, this heartbreaking, if inspiring film won the 2005 Academy Award for best documentary feature. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
About this product: The Madams of the Barbary Coast is a documentary film that tells the scandalous and fascinating stories of the Madams, prostitutes and other "women of questionable virtue" who helped bring culture, beauty, and compassion to the gold rush era of San Francisco. Neglected by history, these pioneer women played a pivotal role in civilizing one of the most dangerous places in the world - San Francisco's Barbary Coast.
"The Madams of the Barbary Coast" was awarded Best Historical Documentary by the 2005 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival as well as for Best Art Direction by the 2005 Golden Gate Fiction and Documentary Film Festival.
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About this product: The raunchy, original 6-part series from Sundance Channel and Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Joe and Harry Gantz (Taxicab Confessions) takes an intimate and revealing look inside a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada.
About this product: Two Male Hustlers on a rampage of sex and drugs. Simon and Rem are depressed and are using sex and drugs to try to improve their lives. Despite everything, they keep falling into bad relationships with their johns and their dealers. Then, when Simon meets Evan (the host of a local cable home-shopping show) he thinks he may have stubbled onto his life s true path. Evan suffers from Tourette s Syndrome, but after having sex with Simon, his symptoms disappear, is Simon his cure? A sadomasochistic relationship develops between the two. Rem watches from the sidelines, even in his drug induced state, he can see the truth, it is just more self destructive behavior, but can he clue Simon in before tragedy strikes?
Extras Trailer: Director s Interview: Letterbox Format: Interactive Menus
About this product: I watched this l930s exploitation flick along with two others: Assassins of Youth and Reefer Madness, but "Marihuana" was my favorite. You're given a glimpse into how Hollywood hopefuls tried desperately to prove themselves before even a Poverty Row camera. The clothes, the hairstyles and make-up are fascinating to study. Nobody had even heard of jeans back then, or casual attire. This was before the Big Band Sound and so the "in" kids did the Lindy Hop and other then hot dance numbers. The actress who portrayed Burma did a great job and you can almost believe that she was so desperate at the end that she did something that I can't say here since it would spoil your fun. Considering the ultra low budget that the movie-maker had to work with, he did a magical job of putting together this movie. The previews, by the way, are equally entertaining. Screaming warnings roll along the screen that demand "Mothers...Fathers...Discover Where Your Children Are Having Their Fun!..."
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