Sex Worker RightsFilms

The concluding chapter of Ti West's X trilogy, with Mia Goth returning as Maxine Minx. Set in 1985 Los Angeles, Maxine transitions from adult film star to pursuing mainstream Hollywood acting career while facing threats from a serial killer. The film deeply explores crucial issues including women's survival struggles in the entertainment industry, sex work destigmatization, Hollywood power structures, and how women fight for autonomy in male-dominated industries.

A romantic comedy-drama directed by Sean Baker, winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Mikey Madison stars as sex worker Ani who falls in love and impulsively marries Vanya, the son of a Russian oligarch, before facing fierce opposition from his family's forces. With its authentic, nuanced performances and sharp social critique, the film deeply explores crucial issues including sex worker rights, class differences, economic inequality, and women's survival struggles in capitalist society.

Based on A'Ziah King's viral Twitter story, follows part-time stripper Zola who is convinced by her new friend to go on a road trip to Tampa to earn money dancing, only to get trapped in a sex work situation. This black comedy explores the complex realities of sex work, racial dynamics, female agency, and narrative truth in the social media age through Zola's perspective.

A crime comedy-drama directed by Lorene Scafaria, starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu. Based on true events, following a group of strippers who band together to scam wealthy Wall Street clients after the 2008 financial crisis. The film deeply explores crucial issues including class revenge, female solidarity, economic inequality, sex worker rights, and the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on working-class women, presenting a complex story of how marginalized women seek survival and fight back in economic hardship.

An older sex worker in a Seoul park is drawn into poverty, illness, and requests for death. E J-yong returns aging from demographic abstraction to class, gender, care, and survival.