Courtesan movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant courtesan movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, period drama, captivating, erotic and sexual films and TV shows about / with courtesan, prostitute, couples, female nudity, society, love and romance, sex, nudity, love and sex scene plots mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres shot in USA, UK, India and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as courtesan: Dangerous Beauty (1998), Nana, the True Key of Pleasure (1983), Harlots (2017), The Last Mistress (2007), A Harlot's Progress (2006), Rome (2005), Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996), Sakuran (2006), Swann in Love (1984), Umrao Jaan (2006).

List of courtesan movies

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Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the ...
Style: romantic, sexual, period piece, witty, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: beauty, courtesan, medieval, forbidden love, prostitute, prostitution, love and romance, couple relations, social differences, rich and poor, society, love story ...
Time: 16th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 1998
Place: italy, venice, europe, turkey, cyprus ...
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Nana, the True Key of Pleasure (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In Zola's Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she's Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She's an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, stylized, sexy ...
Plot: courtesan, young love, lesbian incest, prostitution, making love, sex scene, fetish, femme fatale, unfulfillment, lifestyle, dishonesty, prostitute ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 7.7
 10K
Harlots (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.
Style: stylized, costume drama, atmospheric, captivating, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: brothel madam, prostitution, courtesan, prostitute, brothel, rivalry, class differences, twists and turns, lesbian, rivals, mother daughter relationship, businesswoman ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: england, london
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The Last Mistress (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Style: erotic, serious, stylized, realistic, sensual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, infidelity, opposites attract, courtesan, forbidden love, manipulation, destructive relationship, dishonesty, couples, tragic love, love affair, looking for love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 2000s, 1830s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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A Harlot's Progress (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Drama looking at artist William Hogarth and his relationship with the prostitute that inspired his most famous piece.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, historical drama ...
Plot: painter, prostitute, starvation, dominatrix, adultery, jail, brothel, couples, reform, kept woman, brothel madam, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: england, london
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 8.7
 184K
Rome (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 1193 min.
TV show
Story: A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
Style: epic, exciting, period piece, stylized, captivating ...
Plot: roman empire, ancient history, ancient rome, historical character, power struggle, emperor, antiquity, intrigue, warrior, roman soldier, female nudity, betrayal ...
Time: 1st century, 1st century b.c., ancient times, 2000s
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, greece, alexandria egypt ...
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Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, Germany, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Tara and Maya are two inseparable friends in India. Their tastes, habits, and hobbies are the same. Years later, the two have matured, but have maintained their friendship. Tara gets married to the local prince, Raj Singh, who soon succeeds the ...
Style: erotic, sensual, sexy, sexual, romantic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, eroticism, massage, erotica, kama sutra, lesbian sex, relationships, obsession, women, sex scene, vengeance, seduction ...
Time: 16th century
Place: asia, india
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 6.7
 2K
Sakuran (2006)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young girl is sold into the red-light district Yoshiwara and is put under the care of the oiran (lead prostitute) of the Tamakiku house. The girl is rebellious, but the more experienced people in the household begin to think that she will be one ...
Style: emotional, captivating, stylized, epic, costume drama ...
Plot: geisha, courtesan, ambition, lifestyle, rebelliousness, social differences, rise to the top, rivalry, fall in love, fish out of water, gang, apprentice ...
Time: 18th century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Swann in Love (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Swann (Jeremy Irons), an eligible bachelor in the best circles of fin-de-siècle Paris, has also some more vulgar but rich friends, the Verdurins. Through them he meets Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan, with whom he falls hopelessly in love. She ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: duchess, love and romance, erotica, sensuality, lovers, fantomas, star crossed lovers, jealousy, obsession, prostitute, french president, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
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 5.4
 2K
Umrao Jaan (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Bollywood film about the famous courtesan of the title. Aishwarya Rai stars in the lead role. The film is directed by J.P. Dutta and also stars Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Divya Dutta, Himani Shivpuri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot: courtesan, forbidden love, life is a bitch, social differences, prostitute, society, destiny, impossible love, curses spells and rituals, medieval, abduction, brothel ...
Time: 19th century
Place: india, asia
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 6.1
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Camille (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, ...
Style: period drama, beautiful
Plot: courtesan, cottage, loss of virginity, roulette, class differences, runaway, casino, artist, prostitute, gambling, river, brothel ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: france, paris france
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Lady of the Camelias (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beauty and charm.
Style: erotic, period drama, beautiful
Plot: prostitution, sex, filmmaking, prostitute, tuberculosis, eroticism, menstruation, menarche, girl, male pubic hair, female pubic hair, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s
Place: france, paris france
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The King's Daughters (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free ...
Style: captivating, touching, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot: royalty, women's rights, boarding school, hysteria, mistress, human spirit, nobility, society, obsessive quest, idealism, youth, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 17th century
Place: france, paris france
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 7.1
 3K
Demimonde (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The story of three women - a famous prostitute, her housekeeper and their new maid - living in Budapest of 1910s, whose passionate, bizarre and complex relationship can only lead to one thing: murder.
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, art, prostitute, true crime, lesbianism, female protagonist, murder, courtesan, housekeeper, maid
Time: 1910s
Place: budapest, central europe
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 6.3
 1K
A New Life (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A 2002 French experimental film directed by Philippe Grandrieux and starring Zachary Knighton and Anna Mouglalis. The story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, exciting, tense ...
Plot: obsession, life is a bitch, social decay, nihilism, society, prostitute, destructive relationship, couples, dancer's life, starting over, sexual relations, courtesan ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, france, london, new york
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The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
Style: psychological, rough, melancholic, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: rape, sexism, surrogate mother, infertility, dystopia, protest, totalitarianism, slavery, tyranny, religion, belief, women's rights ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: syria
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Stealing Heaven (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil. A sixteen-year old girl raised in a convent, Héloïse has an intellectual curiosity and rebels ...
Style: independent film, erotic, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: medieval, fall in love, love and romance, religion, ancient, time machine, royalty, sensuality, celibacy, convent, pregnancy, courtesan ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 12th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Dangerous Liaisons is the film based on the novel of the same name by Choderlos de Laclos set in 18th century France. Marquise de Merteuil’s asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for ...
Style: sexy, costume drama, period piece, sexual, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: aristocracy, fatal attraction, seduction, sexuality, sex, sexual manipulation, decadence, love, love letter, adultery, casanova, sexual relations ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 19th century, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
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House of Flying Daggers (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
Style: visually stunning, stylized, visual, exciting, epic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: martial arts, sword fight, wuxia, swords and armor, tragic love, warrior, kung fu, love, emperor, medieval, tragic event, resistance ...
Time: middle ages, year 2004, 2000s, 9th century, medieval times ...
Place: china, east asia, asia, ancient china
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Deedar-E-Yaar (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Story: Childhood pals Javed (Rishi Kapoor) and Akhtar (Jeetendra) will do anything for each other, but their loyalties are tested when they fall in love with the same woman. For Javed, it's love at first sight when he meets the beautiful Firdaus. But ...
Plot: marriage, friendship, wedding, friend, sacrifice, love triangle, love, muslim, plan, courtesan, nobleman, unrequited love
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 6.7
 215
Janwar (1965)
Genre: Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 247 min.
Story: The wealthy patriarch of a Mumbai family learns more than wants to about his own origins after his refusal to accept his sons' chosen spouses drives them and his own wife away.
Plot: angry father, love, disguise, flirting, party, train, snow, brother brother relationship, telephone call, humiliation, dancing, father son relationship ...
Time: 60s
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 7.3
 256
Dushmun (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Film starring Meena Kumari, Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz
Style: retro
Plot: manslaughter, drinking, judge, truck driver, courtroom, prostitute, redemption, farming, courtesan, loss of husband, farm, punishment ...
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My Father Up the Tree (1969)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A young man is shunned by his friends after he starts an affair with a dancer.
Plot: dancer, affair, summer vacation, beach house, courtesan, belly dancer, nightclub, sunset, dance, tourism, brother sister relationship, mistress ...
Place: alexandria egypt, lebanon
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 5.0
 486
Prem Granth (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Somen, a rich boy, loves Kajri, a village belle. The lovers get separated and Somen tries to find his lost love.
Plot: love, rape, priest, hindu, train, holiday, drinking, mirror, temple, lake, pilgrimage, mountain ...
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Manoa, the Golden City (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: spaghetti western
Plot: airplane, bandit, indians, cave, courtesan, submarine
Time: 1920s
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Trilogy of Swordsmanship (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 3 martial arts directors united for this unique anthology film. Yueh Feng writes and directs a clever love-and-kung-fu triangle, Cheng Kang both writes and directs kung-fu courtesans battling brigands, and the ""godfather of the kung-fu ...
Style: anthology
Plot: kung fu, wuxia, martial arts, kung fu classic, courtesan, sword fight, outlaw, political prisoner, heroism, rebellion, ambush, execution ...
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Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffman (1981)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 159 min.
Story: Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past loves - the doll-like Olympia, the high-class courtesan Giulietta, and the ambitious but delicate Antonia - and recalls how each was ...
Plot: opera, drinking, doll, singer, scientist, drunk, magic, poet, live performance, courtesan, french opera, stage performance
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 6.6
 1K
Siddhartha (1972)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: India, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin and his search for a meaningful way of life. His journey takes him through periods of harsh asceticism, sensual pleasures, material wealth, self-revulsion and eventually to the oneness and harmony that he ...
Style: spiritual, philosophical, road movie, surreal, dramatic ...
Plot: buddhism, zen, buddhist, religion, buddha, self awareness, coming of age, conspiracy, saint, spirituality, blaster, antiquity ...
Time: year 1972, 6th century
Place: tibet, india, asia
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Master, Mistress and Servant (1962)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A Zamindar neglects his wife and prefers the company of alcohol and dancing girls. The decadence of the Bangali Zamindar milieu and the raising bourgeoisie in the late 19th century, seen through the eyes of a young upward mobile rustic seeking ...
Style: romantic, entertaining, black and white, retro, realistic ...
Plot: indian woman, women, affair, unfulfillment, society, master and servant, couple relations, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, fall in love, love and romance, estate ...
Time: 19th century
Place: india, kolkata
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Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Portugal, Chile
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Raul Ruiz's Love Torn in a Dream is introduced with a fake newsreel, taking place in postwar France, in which the cast of the film meet with the producer, who explains the film's complex weave of nine narratives. A diagram in which each ...
Style: semi serious, offbeat, humorous, avant garde, enigmatic ...
Plot: parallel world, dangerous attraction, danger, supernatural, riddles and clues, community, painting, surrealism, amor, ghost, couples, imaginary ...
Place: new york, france, canada
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