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Uncovering the Hidden Gems: Movies and TV Shows Related to Pimps

Get ready to dive into a world of gritty realism and raw emotion as we explore the best movies and TV shows that delve into the lives of pimps and their clients. From classic films to modern-day masterpieces, we'll take you on a journey through the highs and lows of this often-misunderstood profession. Whether you're a fan of drama, romance, or social commentary, there's something for everyone in this collection of must-see films and shows.

Cast

Anna Magnani

Ettore Garofolo

Franco Citti

Silvana Corsini

Mamma Roma (1962)

7.9 440 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Italy

Duration: 110 min.

Story: After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.

Plot: friendship, prostitute, rome, italy, parent child relationship, pimp, thief, wedding, ...

Cast

Cantinflas

Ana Bertha Lepe

Valeria Pani

Wolf Ruvinskis

El patrullero 777 (1978)

7.8 120 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Mexico

Duration: 120 min.

Story: Follows Diogenes as he goes about his day as a police officer. He's prone to do things the right way, surrounded by a pretty much corrupt & citizen distant police department, & always resolves his duties with a personal method.

Plot: police, cabaret, pimp, investigation, arrest, undercover cop, police department

Cast

Kim Yun-seok

Ha Jung-woo

Seo Young-hee

Kim You-jung

The Chaser (2008)

7.8 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.

Style: tense

Plot: prostitute, kidnapping, psychopath, pimp, investigation, gore, rope, based on true story, ...

Cast

Franco Citti

Franca Pasut

Silvana Corsini

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Paola Guidi

Accattone (1961)

7.7 522 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Italy

Duration: 117 min.

Story: A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Plot: prostitute, robbery, rome, italy, pimp, poverty

Cast

Alain Delon

Bourvil

Gian Maria Volontu00e9

Yves Montand

Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

7.6 731 votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.

Plot: prison, corruption, paris, france, escape, police, pimp, ex-cop, ...

Cast

James Franco

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Chris Bauer

Chris Coy

The Deuce (2017) TV Show

7.6 423 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence of the area.

Plot: new york city, sex shop, pornography, brothel, peep show, times square, drug use, prostitution, ...

Time: 1970s, 1980s

Cast

Christian Slater

Patricia Arquette

Dennis Hopper

Val Kilmer

True Romance (1993)

7.5 3.1K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Romance

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Style: intimate, suspenseful, intense

Plot: hotel, parent child relationship, movie business, detective, mexican standoff, pimp, cocaine, ex-cop, ...

Cast

Shirley MacLaine

Jack Lemmon

Lou Jacobi

Bruce Yarnell

Irma la Douce (1963)

7.4 481 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 147 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego in order to become her only customer.

Plot: prostitute, paris, france, love of one's life, police, pimp, red-light district

Cast

Debora Caprioglio

Stu00e9phane Ferrara

Martine Brochard

Stu00e9phane Bonnet

Paprika (1991)

7.2 603 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Italy

Duration: 116 min.

Story: In 1957 Trieste, a few months before the general ban on brothels, inexperienced country girl Mimma becomes Paprika to finance her useless boyfriend as a prostitute. Amid the hustle and bustle of Rome, Paprika drifts from one brothel to another as she learns the ropes and works her way up one client at a time. However, as Paprika embarks on a stormy journey of self-discovery and sexual liberation, the sense that something is missing haunts her. Is Paprika meant to experience a passionate romance and solve the great mystery of true love?

Plot: prostitute, based on novel or book, self sacrifice, rome, italy, brothel, pimp, marriage, ...

Place: italy

Cast

Johannes Krisch

Irina Potapenko

Andreas Lust

Ursula Strauss

Revanche (2008)

7.2 252 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: Austria

Duration: 121 min.

Story: Alex, an ex-con working as muscle in a Vienna brothel, dreams of escaping with his girlfriend Tamara, who also works there. Their attempt to break free sets off a chain of events that links their fate with a rural police officer and his troubled marriage. As their lives intersect, a quiet struggle unfolds between guilt, grief, and the desire for redemption.

Plot: infidelity, prostitute, loss of loved one, brothel, pimp, heist, revenge, prostitution, ...

Cast

Jane Fonda

Donald Sutherland

Charles Cioffi

Roy Scheider

Klute (1971)

6.8 519 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

Plot: new york city, prostitute, cat, obsession, audio tape, detective, junkie, pimp, ...

Cast

Rani Mukerji

Tahir Raj Bhasin

Jisshu Sengupta

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Sanjay Taneja

Mardaani (2014)

6.7 123 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: 15

Story: A Mumbai police officer's search for a missing teenage girl leads her to the depraved world of child trafficking. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game between the officer and a ruthless mafia kingpin.

Plot: rape, kidnapping, brothel, pimp, investigation, villain, fistfight, rape victim, ...

Saint Jack (1979)

6.7 55 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.

Plot: brothel, pimp, prostitution, transsexual, gay theme

Time: vietnam war

Place: singapore

Cast

John Travolta

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Kasia Smutniak

Richard Durden

From Paris with Love (2010)

6.4 2.4K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, France

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig—working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an assignment with Charlie Wax. Trigger-happy Charlie soon has James crying for his desk job, but when he learns that the same guys they're trying to catch are after him, James realises that Charlie may be his only hope of survival.

Plot: central intelligence agency (cia), ambassador, paris, france, undercover, explosive, anti hero, pimp, ...

Cast

Roscoe Orman

Diana Sands

Thalmus Rasulala

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Joyce Walker

Willie Dynamite (1974)

6.4 27 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life while it is still possible.

Plot: new york city, prostitute, pimp, cop, blaxploitation cinema

Cast

Georgia Groome

Johnny Harris

Sam Spruell

Lorraine Stanley

London to Brighton (2006)

6.3 116 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 85 min.

Audience: R

Story: It's 3:07am and two girls burst into a run down London toilet. Joanne is crying her eyes out and her clothing is ripped. Kelly's face is bruised and starting to swell. Duncan Allen lies in his bathroom bleeding to death. Duncan's son finds his father and wants answers. Derek – Kelly's pimp – needs to find Kelly or it will be him who pays.

Plot: prostitute, bathroom, shotgun, runaway, pimp, flashback, brighton, england, ...

Cast

Season Hubley

Gary Swanson

Wings Hauser

Pepe Serna

Vice Squad (1982)

6.2 92 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: R

Story: An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.

Plot: prostitute, pimp, vice, serial killer, police detective

Cast

Henry Winkler

Michael Keaton

Shelley Long

Gina Hecht

Night Shift (1982)

6.1 236 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbor complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night.

Plot: new york city, pimp, morgue, prostitution