Movies like Mayflower Madam
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Mayflower Madam (1987)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an exclusive escort service catering to the wealthy and affluent. From Sydney's rise to become a million-dollar, modern-day madam to her notorious plummet into bankruptcy and public disgrace, experience a private glimpse into the forbidden world of high-class prostitution-where money talks...pleasure sells...and discretion is everything.
Style:
period piece
Plot:
prostitution, socialite, rise and fall, controversy, wealth, taboo, high society, ambition, media sensation, biopic, power, deception, corruption, luxury, morality, nightlife, greed, urban, character study, investigation, legal battle, double life, private detective, bankruptcy, sex scandal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, manhattan, new york city
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Most similar movies to Mayflower Madam
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, crime drama, period piece and captivating films with plots about urban, ambition, corruption, betrayal, investigation, prostitution and character study mostly in Drama, Biography and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mayflower Madam: Subprime (2011), Trump Unauthorized (2005), Red Light in the White House (1977), Satan Was A Lady (2001), Fall from Grace (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
The year is 2001 and both David's life and the mortgage industry are in balance. After the attacks on 9/11 the stock markets shut down for over a week marking its biggest decline since the great depression. America's economy is in the tank ...
Style:
dark, realistic, tense
Plot:
fraud, cautionary tale, greed, ethical dilemma, real estate, corruption, business, scandal, rise and fall, character study, morality, con artists ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A look at the life of real estate king/media mogul/reality TV star, Donald Trump.
Style:
captivating, semi autobiographical, disturbing, controversial
Plot:
wealth, politics, biopic, rise and fall, donald trump, real estate, mogul, politician, rich man, businessman, lifestyle, political leader ...
Place:
new york, america, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A reporter digs into the background of a young woman who is running for the U.S. Senate, and finds out a lot more than he bargained for.
Style:
political thriller, controversial, period piece, crime drama, independent film ...
Plot:
investigation, scandal, investigative journalism, corruption, cover up, sex scandal, white house, political intrigue, reputation, sex worker, vice president, prostitution ...
Time:
70s
Place:
washington d.c., los angeles
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Wishman's plot rotates around the maneuverings of a whore who longs for a touch of mink and a seat at the finer tables in life. Blackmail, betrayal, murder and malice are all part of her tender trade. Lord help anyone who lays in her way.
Style:
captivating, rough, sexy, suspense, erotic ...
Plot:
stripper, prostitution, murder, betrayal, blackmail, exploitation, female killer, erotica, nightclub, femme fatale, sexploitation, greed ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fall from Grace is a drama, concerning the lives of Jim Bakker and his then-wife, Tammy Faye Bakker Messner during the 1980s, and starred Kevin Spacey and Bernadette Peters. This made-for-television movie aired on NBC on April 29, 1990. Jim Bakker ...
Plot:
religion, scandal, televangelist, fundamentalism, preacher, controversy, religious hypocrisy, rise and fall, hypocrisy, biopic, betrayal, fraud ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A successful New York businessman leads a double life as a computer thief.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching, crime drama ...
Plot:
split personality, unlikely criminals, fall in love, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, opposites attract, criminal heroes, satire, double life, moral ambiguity, deception ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Exploitation film about prostitution.
Style:
erotic drama, dark, sensual, retro, noir ...
Plot:
exploitation, scandal, prostitution, corruption, sexploitation, showbiz, backstage, celebrity culture, taboo, sleaze, underground, nightlife ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
58%
87
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Based on true events, 44 is the story of Migs, an 18 year old high school student trapped between the two opposing forces of his father, a drug dealer and convicted felon, and his mother, an NYPD cop.
Style:
dramatic, crime drama, realistic, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, family conflict, double life, coming of age, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, drug trade, moral dilemma, mother son relationship, betrayal, ambition ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Their life as luxury escorts offered these women glamour, money and a chance to reinvent themselves…until a murder and a robbery ruined everything.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, risk, big booty, women, prostitute, glamour, threat, social problems, seductress, problem, prostitution, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, period drama
Plot:
corruption, school, director, theft, fraud, crisis of faith, stealing money, con artists, female protagonist, money, stolen money, loss of faith ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
london
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
morality, character study, small town, conscience, literary, ethical dilemma, thoughtful, ambition, corruption, greed, midlife crisis, redemption ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A wife and mother drifts back to her life as a call girl.
Style:
noir, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
call girl, prostitution, secret life, double life, female protagonist, domestic drama, mature, motherhood, character study, taboo, family conflict, shame ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The story of three women and the circumstances that led each to get involved in prostitution as call girls.
Style:
realistic, period piece, psychological, intense, retro ...
Plot:
sex work, prostitution, sexuality, character study, women's issues, prostitute, exploitation, survival, taboo, branding iron, urban, social realism ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The true story of seven 1960's call girls, taken straight from the accounts of a practicing Hollywood sex therapist.
Style:
period piece, bleak, art house, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
hollywood, exploitation, sex work, prostitution, intimate, biopic, urban, sex therapy, trauma, therapy, social commentary, empowerment ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Camille Taylor has just written the hottest, sexiest, and most sensational tell-all book about her life as a high-class call girl…and someone killed her to keep it from being published. Was it one of her powerful clients; or perhaps her politician ...
Style:
detective, suspense, intense, atmospheric, noir ...
Plot:
lesbian cunnilingus, oral sex, murder, private investigator, whodunit, call girl, investigation, undercover, seduction, secrets, scandal, danger ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
About a notorious Connecticut convicted rapist.
Style:
crime drama, dark, emotional, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual assault, true crime, fugitive, biopic, convict, investigation, trial, justice, courtroom, legal battle, media coverage ...
Time:
90s
Place:
connecticut
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After 10 years of toil, a moral, determined and penniless agent trainee is given his only and last opportunity to make agent. Standing in his way; a 24 hour time frame, Hollywood's most amoral, hyper ambitious and successful agent deciding his ...
Style:
suspenseful
Audience:
adult
Plot:
determination, conscience, moral dilemma, ambition, hollywood, temptation, talent agent, cynicism, hopes, poverty, survival, entertainment industry ...
Place:
beverly hills, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with alcoholism.
Style:
intense, eighties
Plot:
scandal, alcoholism, defamation, celebrity culture, manipulation, ambition, revenge, betrayal, moral ambiguity, urban, media satire, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Graham studied medicine, but never qualified due to being expelled from medical school for theft. He did pass the final exams, but while being paid to do them for someone else, which he feels qualifies him to practice medicine privately. Dispensing ...
Style:
crime drama, medical drama, realistic, suspense, black comedy ...
Plot:
ethical dilemma, fraud, police operation, deception, forgery, secret police, moral ambiguity, investigation, crime family, underworld, greed, character study ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Young and bright politicians are preparing for the election. Every candidate's dirty clothes will be shown to the people and created scandals and used as an advantage.
Style:
thrilling, political, psychological, captivating, political thriller ...
Plot:
scandal, intrigue, election, political intrigue, political unrest, politics, political campaign, political scandal, reputation, ambition, campaign, corruption ...
Similarity:
44%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Businessman Raj Kundra's 63 days inside India's most over crowded jail, Arthur Road jail.
Style:
realistic, tense, intense
Plot:
biopic, claustrophobia, celebrity culture, urban, media frenzy, legal battle, male protagonist, isolation, ethical dilemma, police interrogation, corporate crime, tabloid journalism ...
Place:
mumbai india
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three short stories about women & men relationship.
Style:
anthology, romantic drama, realistic, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
mature, addiction, alcoholism, domestic drama, character study, bittersweet, thoughtful, urban, loneliness, separation, intimate, gender roles ...
Place:
new york, paris france
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jules and Louis, hustlers and jazz musicians struggle to create a hit when a black-Hispanic escort named Ruby interrupts their lives distracting their music and causing Louis to fight his friend's debts away.
Style:
art house, experimental, tense, multicultural, sexy ...
Plot:
jazz, escort, seduction, character study, betrayal, ambition, jealousy, love triangle, urban, intimate, nightlife, streetfighting ...
Similarity:
42%
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59
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alexa is very attentive to her customer's requests, but soon realizes that prostitution has limited long term career potential...
Style:
independent film, sensual, erotic drama
Plot:
female protagonist, prostitution, sex work, brothel, redemption, pimp, escape attempt, escape, betrayal, manipulation, nightlife, danger ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The true story of the wildly popular television show created by Aaron Spelling and Darren Star during the 1990's.
Style:
soap opera, feel good, entertaining, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
love, father daughter relationship, redhead, hollywood, behind the scenes, male female relationship, love affair, parents and children, family relations, couple relations, friendship, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three generations of New Orleans prostitute fight the FBI and each other. Based on a true story.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
prostitution, three generations, prostitute, fbi, women, street prostitution, female protagonist, generation, social issues, social problems, relationships, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Thanks to a roommate's practical joke, bookish college student Joanna Halbert finds herself signed up with a Malibu-based escort service which promises her big money and an easy ride. Instead, she becomes entangled in a web of corruption, ...
Style:
period piece, detective
Plot:
escort, college student, prostitution, female protagonist, sexploitation, exploitation, loss of innocence, manipulation, prostitute, call girl, secret life, double life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
malibu california, california
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A stripper from Club Chez Nous is murdered. The killer contacts a newspaper to whitewash himself. Two journalists start to investigate the case and stumble on other crimes along the way.
Style:
suspense, dark, crime drama, tense, detective ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, newspaper, journalism, media manipulation, cover up, violence, sexuality, corruption, nightlife, moral ambiguity, club ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, belgium, eastern europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of Ismail Abdoul, a promising young boxer getting caught between his sporting carreer and his rising fame in the criminal underworld.
Style:
crime drama, tense, crime thriller, noir
Plot:
boxing, moral ambiguity, rise and fall, violence, ambition, drug traffic, anti hero, character study, organized crime, street life, corruption, gang ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Rita, an ill-paid factory worker, is determined to make it as a model in New York City. She's an ordinary girl with an extraordinary body. She learns by watching other models, but she also knows that photographers will insist on gratifying ...
Style:
period piece, art house, sexploitation film
Plot:
sexploitation, female protagonist, corruption, voice over narration, drug use, exploitation, seduction, character study, urban decay, alienation, loneliness, tragedy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
36%
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