Passport to Shame

Dec 2, 1958

1h 26m

★ 5.9

A PICTURE BEST UNDERSTOOD BY ADULTS!

Overview

British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

United Co-Productions

Passport to Shame Trailers

Cast

Vicki

Diana Dors

Nick Biaggi

Herbert Lom

Johnny McVey

Eddie Constantine

Marie Louise 'Malou' Beaucaire

Odile Versois

Aggie

Brenda De Banzie

Mike

Robert Brown

Solicitor Heath

Elwyn Brook-Jones

Bridegroom (uncredited)

Michael Caine

Willie

Cyril Shaps

Mac

Denis Shaw

Miriam

Joan Sims

Sally

Pat Pleasance

Just days before Rhett (Chris Pine) is leaving for Nashville to pursue a lifelong dream of being a singer/songwriter, his girlfriend Samantha (Bre Blair) realizes that "his" future may not be "their" future. This news comes as a shock to Rhett, and he is faced with having to choose between following his dream and staying in his hometown in order to be with the woman he loves.

6.5

Story of a Prostitute

Feb 27, 1965

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

5.8

Jack the Ripper

Sep 23, 1976

A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.

3.8

The Smoke

Oct 4, 2014

City lawyer Brad Walker (Matt di'Angelo) is having the worst day of his life. His high-maintenance girlfriend Sasha (Anna Passey) has left him for his so-called friend Tom (Christian Brassington) and to add insult to injury, he's been fired too. On a night out drowning his sorrows with old friend Dean (Jeff Leach), he overhears a conversation between Phil (Darren Ripley) and Ben (Stephen Marcus) - two drug dealers working for small-time gangster Jack (Alan Ford) - that will change his life forever...

2.8

International Prostitution : Brigade criminelle

Jun 18, 1980

A French police inspector with the help of Tazzi, a woman involved in a prostitution ring, track down the man who murdered Tazzi's sister.

4.2

Die kleine Niederdorfoper

Jan 1, 1978

Farmer Heiri has sold his calf and celebrates his temporary wealth in the big city. But in doing so he is confronted with many temptations and dangers: pickpockets, second-rate artists and prostitutes who all try to grab the money of this naive man from Hausen. A 1978 recording of the well-known Zurich boulevard theatre piece.

6.3

The Witnesses

Mar 7, 2007

Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

4.1

The Heroine

Apr 26, 1973

Incriminating evidence against a gang is left in a cab when a gang member dies in it. The gang chases the innocent cab driver, who receives help from the dead gangster's sister - a tough police woman.

6.9

Red Dust

Oct 22, 1932

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.

5.5

The Assassin Next Door

Dec 3, 2009

In an old apartment building on the wrong side of the tracks, two women, unknown to each other, live across the hall on the second floor. Galia is an assassin involved against her will with the local sex-traffic mafia. All she wants is to reunite with her little daughter that she left back home in Ukraine . Eleanor is a grocery store cashier and a battered wife. She dreams of winning the lottery and running away from her abusive husband. Galia and Eleanor don't know each other, but as neighbors they share two things: an adjoining wall and a strong need to plan their escape. As Galia disobeys her latest contract, a woman target, and Eleanor discovers that she's pregnant, the two women decide to take action against their oppressors in a fight for survival and freedom.

4.7

The Effect of Love

Aug 16, 2007

Mabel lives on a slum. Does work as a clown at children's parties and as a prostitute. At 20 crosses paths with Martin, a lawyer just shy of 40. He has divorced his wife and left the law firm he was working on. Buys a trailer and goes to live in it. Advertising for a car wash dressed as a bird he meets Mabel and they fell in love. Later she finds out she's living with HIV. From that moment on, Martin's love will help Mabel fight her battles with death.

5.8

The Killer Inside Me

Feb 19, 2010

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.

5.8

Nathalie...

Sep 11, 2003

Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard. As the affair progresses, Nathalie gives Catherine regular status reports, and the relationship between the women evolves from business to personal.

6.3

Moneyboys

Nov 19, 2021

Fei works illegally to support family, but they reject his lifestyle. Through Long, Fei finds hope, until encountering Xiaolai, his past love, who makes him confront his guilt.

6.8

99 River Street

Aug 21, 1953

A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.

7.3

Stroszek

May 20, 1977

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

6.1

Tightrope

Aug 17, 1984

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.

5.2

Postcards from London

Nov 9, 2018

Jim is a young man from Essex who moves to Soho with dreams of fame and fortune. When he joins a group of luxury male escorts, he finds himself embarking on a psychedelic journey of decadence.

5.5

Saawariya

Nov 9, 2007

Two souls arrive in a small town, one on vacation, the other to meet a lover. They spend the most magical dream-like days of their lives in that town... with each other.

5.9

Mei Mei

Nov 25, 2010

Lulu, a high class prostitute, receives constant visits from her neighbor Julian. He believes that she is his missing ex-girlfriend Mei Mei and begs her for a chance to start over again. Lulu rejects him, thinking that he is just making up stories to win her over. She tells him she never wants to see him again, but soon she misses him. It may be too late as she discovers that Julian is with somebody that looks exactly like her.