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1) Piercing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Reed leaves his wife and infant son to go on a business trip when he's actually planning a meticulous murder. He checks into a hotel and calls a prostitute as his unsuspecting victim. But Jackie is more than he bargained for, and after an unexpected disruption, the balance of power sways. Who's playing whom? As the night wears on, it becomes a nightmare of blood that will bond the two forever.
2) Nuts
Pub. Date
©2003, ©1987
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The pending case: The People of the State of New York vs. Claudia Draper. The issue: Is Claudia mentally competent to stand trial? Sure, she's shocking, outspoken, explosive. But is she "nuts?" Claudia holds nothing back as she takes on the judicial system, modern psychiatry, personal demons and anyone in her way.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jason, a lawyer, poses as a john to build a legal case against the ruthless pimp who is trafficking girls into Thailand. He meets number eighteen; a girl forced to work as a prostitute in a busy Bangkok bar, only to discover her testimony is key to proving his case.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Julian Kay is on the prowl and looking for someone to please. Boyish and sensual, he speaks five or six languages, and is equally comfortable as a chauffeur for a wealthy middle-aged matron, and as a translator/companion for the lonely wife of an executive. He is the American gigolo. But Julian's love-for-sale lifestyle turns deadly when a client is murdered and Julian becomes the prime suspect.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true-life story of Barbara Hoffman, a brilliant biochemistry student but also a notorious prostitute. When her distraught fiance leads police to a naked, bludgeoned corpse he helped her bury, it sets in motion an investigation that uncovers a sordid world of blackmail, lust, and deception.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The deliciously scandalous story of Scotty Bowers, a handsome ex-Marine who landed in Hollywood after World War II and became confidante, aide-de-camp, and lover to many of Hollywood's greatest male, and female, stars. An unsung Hollywood legend, Bowers would cater to the sexual appetites of celebrities, straight and gay, for decades. While the studio PR machines were promoting their stars as wholesome and monogamous, Bowers was fulfilling the true...
9) The American
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a job ends more violently than expected, Jack retreats to the Italian countryside and accepts one last assignment to construct a deadly weapon for a mysterious contact. But when he pursues a relationship with a beautiful local woman, he may be tempting fate by stepping out of the shadows. Jack soon finds himself in an escalating battle to escape from his secretive past.
10) Butterfield 8
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A high-class call girl in New York and a socially prominant man fall in love. However, he can't forget her past and she resents his distrust, so they battle their emotions and each other, leading to a powerful and explosive climax.
11) Belle de jour
Series
Criterion collection volume 593
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + e 1 booklet (28 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
12) Risky business
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Joel's wealthy suburban Chicago parents are going on vacation and leaving him in charge of the house. They trust their college-bound 17-year-old son but they shouldn't. Every kid's dream is every parent's nightmare. No sooner do Joel's parents step on the plane than he raids the liquor cabinet, has a joyride in Dad's Porsche, and has a night of passion with a young call girl named Lana.
14) Pretty woman
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A corporate raider pays a gorgeous hooker to be his escort for a business week in Beverly Hills--and then falls for her.
15) Marked woman
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young assistant District Attorney uses a prostitute to indict a gang of racketeers, its czar, and his underlings.
16) Midnight cowboy
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Texas "cowboy" takes a bus to New York in search of lonely, rich women who will pay for his sexual services, but spends a hard winter helping a con man.
17) Unforgiven
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The town of Big Whisky people try to lead a quiet life. Sheriff 'Little Bill' keeps heavy-handed order. Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid, ' and aging killer William Munny. Munny is a widower trying to raise his two young children. Farm life is hard and Munny is no good at it. He calls on his old...
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites, a flock of shell-shocked schoolchildren, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American posing as a priest to save his own skin, or so he thinks, all seeking safety behind a walled cathedral. Trapped by marauding soldiers, over the next few days the prejudices and divides between them will fall away as they unite around a last ditch plan to protect the children from impending...
19) Taxi driver
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
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