Movies like Bubu
If Bubu's mix of prostitute, pimp and bakery stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Bubu's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Mamma Roma
1962 · Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini · 110 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute, pimp · Also a Italian drama
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…
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Accattone
1961 · Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini · 117 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute, pimp · Also a Italian drama
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
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Klute
1971 · Directed by Alan J. Pakula · 114 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute, pimp · From the same decade (1970s)
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
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Scarlet Street
1945 · Directed by Fritz Lang · 103 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: pimp
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook.
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The Family Friend
2006 · Directed by Paolo Sorrentino · 102 min7.2
Why you'll like itAlso a Italian drama
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother.
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Monster
2003 · Directed by Patty Jenkins · 109 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute
In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, Aileen's limited education lands her back on the corner.
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Faces
1968 · Directed by John Cassavetes · 130 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute
Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on the town with her friends and meets a younger man.
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The Naked Kiss
1964 · Directed by Samuel Fuller · 93 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute
A former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.
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Hard Eight
1997 · Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · 102 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
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Welcome to the Rileys
2010 · Directed by Jake Scott · 110 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip.
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Crimes of Passion
1984 · Directed by Ken Russell · 107 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…