The Rise of OnlyFans

This multi-faceted documentary about “remote sex work” shows a wide variety of aspects and honest self-reflections about working as a sex worker. Above all, the situation of sitting alone in front of the camera or computer and acting in a situation that is both safe and completely isolated is portrayed in a credible and touching way by the protagonists. The pressure of earning money, the stigma of sex work, but also the peculiarity of doing this job - thanks to the internet - practically in your own bedroom, is described first-hand and finally gives these likeable sex workers a voice.

Documentary look at the 1996-97 effort of the dancers and support staff at a San Francisco peep show, The Lusty Lady, to unionize. Angered by arbitrary and race-based wage policies, customers' surreptitious video cameras, and no paid sick days or holidays, the dancers get help from the Service Employees International local and enter protracted bargaining with the union-busting law firm that management hires. We see the women work, sort out their demands, and go through the difficulties of bargaining. The narrator is Julia Query, a dancer and stand-up comedian who is reluctant to tell her mother, a physician who works with prostitutes, that she strips.

A group of prostitutes in Rio de Janeiro who fight to obtain rights and reduce stigma, create a clothing label that quickly invades Brazilian fashion shows. Poster photo by Daniela Pinheiro.

Amber Haque reveals how OnlyFans models suffer widespread exploitation and coercion at the hands of their managers.

Two foreigners meet in Barcelona and become friends after discovering that they both work in the same business: sex work. Their conversations offer an insider’s view into the differences between women and men in the sex industry.

Noted documentary filmmakers Iana Porter and Sasha Waters direct this understated and decidedly un-exploitative look at the world of sadomasochism both as therapy and as business. The film focuses on three New York dominatrices who willingly, lovingly, flog, smack, and abuse their clients: young perky Carrie, glitzy 30-something Sonja Blaze, and Teutonic matron Eva. All argue that they are providing society with an important, if quasi-sexual, service. Their clients ardently agree.

Call it acting or prostitution; the phone sex phenomenon reflects the darker side of the telemarketing industry. From the absurd to the disturbing. Mind Fuck is a brave foray into the strange and fascinating psychological world of phone sex in which the real operators, normally stuck on the receiving end of the line, finally get to freely speak their mind.

A Q&A session with the founder of 'Heaux History Project' Erica aka Rebelle.

High Class Call Girls is a a revealing glimpse into the lives of Emily B and Cookie Jane, two self-dubbed high class call girls who charge thousands of pounds for a night with clients who find them through new location-based apps.

British filmmaker Beeban Kidron ventures onto the mean streets of the South Bronx and other New York locales to examine the lives of those involved in the city's thriving sex industry.

Featuring interviews with performers, activists and past employees, this documentary offers a deep dive into the successes and scandals of Pornhub.

For the past ten years, Evelyn has been running her own brothel in a quiet small town in Germany. Serving as a sort of open invitation to her BDSM studio, this observational film delves deeply into Evelyn’s daily life and her dedication to running her own business. Karola Pfaffinger makes it a principle that the term sex work emphasises the work and not the voyeuristically illustrated sex.