Male prostitution in the arts
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The male prostitute or hustler is a frequent stereotype
in literature and movies in the West from the 1960s on, and especially in movies and books with a gay
perspective in which he may be considered a stock character
. He also appears occasionally in popular music, some contemporary fashion advertising, and the visual arts.
. He is often portrayed as a drug addict or thief. The plotline frequently focuses on the crisis of leaving the trade or the street ("one last trick"), or on making enough money for an important use (a medical treatment, a gift). The climax often has one of two possible outcomes: the hustler either abandons the trade and re-integrates society, or he meets a tragic end. This tragic image of the hustler can be contrasted with the stereotype of the female hooker with a heart of gold
: instead of being portrayed as someone in control and contented, the hustler is lost, homeless, broke or exploited.
In movies and books that take the point of view of the client or of a boy/girl friend who loves the hustler, the hustler is often depicted as an impossible love object who will only bring hurt or frustration. The lover may grow jealous of and disturbed by the hustler's work; occasionally the loving boy/girl friend will be drawn into the lifestyle of their hustler boy friend. Older clients who fall in love with hustlers are frequently prey to emotional (and sometimes physical) pain; this is especially true in the case of "rough trade" (where the hustler identifies as straight), and this depiction has been reinforced by several famous incidents of violence against clients (such as the deaths of Pier Paolo Pasolini
and Rudolph Moshammer
).
In contrast to the previous depictions, the male prostitute has also sometimes been portrayed as an idealized rebel living outside the law and free of bourgeois conventions. This almost Nietzschean image of the hustler as moral and sexual outlaw owes much to the writings of Jean Genet
, William S. Burroughs
and John Rechy
(among others).
While less frequent in cinema and novels, the male prostitute with exclusively female clients (the "gigolo" or "escort") is generally depicted in a less tragic manner than the gay hustler (the gigolo is portrayed as older, athletic, well-dressed, etc.), and films like American Gigolo
have done much to paint the character as a sophisticated seducer. This portrayal has also lead to cinematic satire (the Deuce Bigalow films).
The portrayal of the client or "john" of male prostitution in popular culture is far less codified than that of the hustler and runs the gamut from the lonely married man, the self-hating in-the-closet guy, the exploitative or endearing businessman, and even the serial killer.
The diversity of these stereotypes reveals much about each author's or director's personal view of love, sexuality, power and morality.
These stereotypes may have a basis in fact, but they should not be taken as true in all cases.
The same issues that surround male prostitution (including the financial security and social status
of the young "kept" lover, the older lover's obsessions and insecurities with regards to his or her youthful love-object, the sexual freedom or moral indifference of the hustler, etc.) often appear in movies and literature that portray amorous or sexual relationships—without prostitution—between an older man or woman and a younger male lover, for example, in Pasolini's novel and movie Theorem, Harold Prince's film Something For Everyone (1970) and Bill Condon
's film Gods and Monsters
(1998).
Stereotype
A stereotype is a popular belief about specific social groups or types of individuals. The concepts of "stereotype" and "prejudice" are often confused with many other different meanings...
in literature and movies in the West from the 1960s on, and especially in movies and books with a gay
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
perspective in which he may be considered a stock character
Stock character
A Stock character is a fictional character based on a common literary or social stereotype. Stock characters rely heavily on cultural types or names for their personality, manner of speech, and other characteristics. In their most general form, stock characters are related to literary archetypes,...
. He also appears occasionally in popular music, some contemporary fashion advertising, and the visual arts.
Stereotypes
The most common stereotype of the hustler is as a sexy but tragic figure. This stereotype reveals both a fascination with the hustler as a sexual object and sadness or disdain with his situation and life style. This stereotyped male hustler is often an under-aged or teen-age "street kid" or "runaway" forced to leave home because of his sexual orientation or because of sexual abuseSexual abuse
Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. When that force is immediate, of short duration, or infrequent, it is called sexual assault. The offender is referred to as a sexual abuser or molester...
. He is often portrayed as a drug addict or thief. The plotline frequently focuses on the crisis of leaving the trade or the street ("one last trick"), or on making enough money for an important use (a medical treatment, a gift). The climax often has one of two possible outcomes: the hustler either abandons the trade and re-integrates society, or he meets a tragic end. This tragic image of the hustler can be contrasted with the stereotype of the female hooker with a heart of gold
Hooker with a heart of gold
The hooker with a heart of gold is a stock character in which a "fallen woman", usually a prostitute, is a kindly and internally wholesome person.-Characteristics:...
: instead of being portrayed as someone in control and contented, the hustler is lost, homeless, broke or exploited.
In movies and books that take the point of view of the client or of a boy/girl friend who loves the hustler, the hustler is often depicted as an impossible love object who will only bring hurt or frustration. The lover may grow jealous of and disturbed by the hustler's work; occasionally the loving boy/girl friend will be drawn into the lifestyle of their hustler boy friend. Older clients who fall in love with hustlers are frequently prey to emotional (and sometimes physical) pain; this is especially true in the case of "rough trade" (where the hustler identifies as straight), and this depiction has been reinforced by several famous incidents of violence against clients (such as the deaths of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...
and Rudolph Moshammer
Rudolph Moshammer
Rudolph Moshammer was a German fashion designer. He was murdered at the age of 64 in the Grünwald neighborhood of Munich, Germany.- Life :Born in Munich, Germany, Moshammer had an education in retail industry trading...
).
In contrast to the previous depictions, the male prostitute has also sometimes been portrayed as an idealized rebel living outside the law and free of bourgeois conventions. This almost Nietzschean image of the hustler as moral and sexual outlaw owes much to the writings of Jean Genet
Jean Genet
Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...
, William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th...
and John Rechy
John Rechy
John Francis Rechy, , is an American author, the child of a half-Scottish and half-Mexican father, Roberto Rechy, and a Mexican-American mother, Guadalupe Flores. In his novels he has written extensively about homosexual culture in Los Angeles and wider America, and is among the pioneers of modern...
(among others).
While less frequent in cinema and novels, the male prostitute with exclusively female clients (the "gigolo" or "escort") is generally depicted in a less tragic manner than the gay hustler (the gigolo is portrayed as older, athletic, well-dressed, etc.), and films like American Gigolo
American Gigolo
American Gigolo is a 1980 crime drama film, written and directed by Paul Schrader. It is informally considered the second installment in his "lonely man" trilogy, following the Martin Scorsese directed Taxi Driver and preceding Light Sleeper .-Plot:Julian Kaye is a male prostitute in Los Angeles...
have done much to paint the character as a sophisticated seducer. This portrayal has also lead to cinematic satire (the Deuce Bigalow films).
The portrayal of the client or "john" of male prostitution in popular culture is far less codified than that of the hustler and runs the gamut from the lonely married man, the self-hating in-the-closet guy, the exploitative or endearing businessman, and even the serial killer.
The diversity of these stereotypes reveals much about each author's or director's personal view of love, sexuality, power and morality.
These stereotypes may have a basis in fact, but they should not be taken as true in all cases.
The same issues that surround male prostitution (including the financial security and social status
Social status
In sociology or anthropology, social status is the honor or prestige attached to one's position in society . It may also refer to a rank or position that one holds in a group, for example son or daughter, playmate, pupil, etc....
of the young "kept" lover, the older lover's obsessions and insecurities with regards to his or her youthful love-object, the sexual freedom or moral indifference of the hustler, etc.) often appear in movies and literature that portray amorous or sexual relationships—without prostitution—between an older man or woman and a younger male lover, for example, in Pasolini's novel and movie Theorem, Harold Prince's film Something For Everyone (1970) and Bill Condon
Bill Condon
William "Bill" Condon is an American screenwriter and director. Condon is best known for directing and writing the critically acclaimed films Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Kinsey, and Dreamgirls. In 1998, Condon debuted as a screenwriter in Gods and Monsters, which won him his first Academy Award....
's film Gods and Monsters
Gods and Monsters
Gods and Monsters is a 1998 drama film that recounts the last days of the life of troubled film director James Whale, whose homosexuality is a central theme. It stars Ian McKellen as Whale, along with Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich, and David Dukes...
(1998).
In literature
The following novels and memoirs feature male hustlers as major characters.| Year | Title | Author | Notes |
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| 1894 | Flowers of Asphalt | Stephen Crane Stephen Crane Stephen Crane was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism... |
According to Crane biographer John Berryman John Berryman John Allyn Berryman was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry... Crane began writing Flowers of Asphalt after being approached by a young male prostitute in the street. The work was said to be longer than any of Crane's other works but he abandoned it at the urging of Hamlin Garland Hamlin Garland Hannibal Hamlin Garland was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers.- Biography :... , who was horrified by the subject matter. The manuscript does not survive. |
| 1908 | Swoosh: Tales of Privateers and Pirates | D Watt | The phrase "Cap'n's Rent Boy" first used. |
| 1943 | Our Lady of the Flowers Our Lady of the Flowers Our Lady of the Flowers is the debut novel of French writer Jean Genet, first published in 1943. The free-flowing, poetic novel is a largely autobiographical account of a man's journey through the Parisian underworld... (Notre Dame des fleurs) |
Jean Genet Jean Genet Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing... |
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| 1948 | The City and the Pillar The City and the Pillar The City and the Pillar is the third published novel by American writer and essayist Gore Vidal, written in 1946 and published on January 10, 1948... |
Gore Vidal Gore Vidal Gore Vidal is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar , outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality... |
Lead character Jim Willard supports himself as a hustler and a "kept boy". |
| 1951 | From Here to Eternity From Here to Eternity (novel) From Here to Eternity is the debut novel by James Jones, winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1952. It was ranked 62 on Modern Library's list of the 100 Best Novels. It is loosely based on Jones' experiences in the pre-World War II Hawaiian Division's 27th Infantry and the unit in which... |
James Jones James Jones (author) James Jones was an American author known for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath.-Life and work:... |
In Jones's original manuscript, Private Angelo Maggio acknowledges acting as trade, allowing gay men to perform oral sex on him for money to supplement his Army pay. The publisher forced the excision of these passages. A new edition of the book with the previously censored passages restored is due out from e-book E-book An electronic book is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital... publisher Open Road. |
| 1957 | Last Exit to Brooklyn Last Exit to Brooklyn Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby, Jr. The novel has become a cult classic because of its harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s and for its brusque, everyman style of prose.... |
Hubert Selby Jr. | |
| 1963 | The Basketball Diaries The Basketball Diaries The Basketball Diaries is a 1978 memoir written by author and musician Jim Carroll. It is an edited collection of the diaries he kept between the ages of twelve and sixteen... |
Jim Carroll Jim Carroll James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.-Biography:Carroll was born to a... |
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| 1963 | City of Night City of Night City of Night is a novel written by John Rechy. It was originally published in 1963 in New York by Grove Press. Earlier excerpts had appeared in Evergreen Review, Big Table, Nugget, and The London Magazine.... |
John Rechy John Rechy John Francis Rechy, , is an American author, the child of a half-Scottish and half-Mexican father, Roberto Rechy, and a Mexican-American mother, Guadalupe Flores. In his novels he has written extensively about homosexual culture in Los Angeles and wider America, and is among the pioneers of modern... |
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| 1965 | Midnight Cowboy Midnight Cowboy Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. It was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman and newcomer Jon Voight in the title role. Notable smaller roles are filled by Sylvia Miles, John... |
James Leo Herlihy James Leo Herlihy James Leo Herlihy was an American novelist, playwright and actor.Born into a working class family in Detroit, Michigan, Herlihy is known for his novels Midnight Cowboy and All Fall Down and his play Blue Denim, all of which were adapted for cinema... |
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| 1967 | Numbers | John Rechy John Rechy John Francis Rechy, , is an American author, the child of a half-Scottish and half-Mexican father, Roberto Rechy, and a Mexican-American mother, Guadalupe Flores. In his novels he has written extensively about homosexual culture in Los Angeles and wider America, and is among the pioneers of modern... |
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| 1968 | My Father and Myself | J. R. Ackerley J. R. Ackerley J. R. Ackerley was arts editor of The Listener, the weekly magazine of the BBC... |
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| 1978 | Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo | Christiane F. Christiane F. Christiane F. is a former heroin addict famous for her contribution to the autobiographical book , and the film based on the book, which describes her struggle with various forms of drug addiction during her teens.-Early life:Christiane was born in Hamburg, but her family moved to West Berlin when... |
Christiane's boyfriend Detlef works as a hustler to earn money to buy heroin. |
| 1989 | Enchanted Boy Enchanted Boy Enchanted Boy is the 1989 autobiographical novel by Richie McMullen, telling of his childhood, growing up in post-war working class Catholic Liverpool and aims to "contribute to the growing knowledge of child abuse"... |
Richie McMullen | Memoir of a boy's journey from "abuse to prostitution" in 1950s England. |
| 1990 | Enchanted Youth | Richie McMullen | Continuation of McMullen's journey from "prostitution to love" in 1958. |
| 1990 | Closer | Dennis Cooper Dennis Cooper Dennis Cooper is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist.-Career:Cooper grew up the son of a wealthy businessman in Arcadia, California. His first forays into literature came early, focusing on imitations of Rimbaud, Verlaine, de Sade, and Baudelaire... |
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| 1991 | Close to the Knives | David Wojnarowicz David Wojnarowicz David Wojnarowicz was a painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist who was prominent in the New York City art world of the 1980s.-Biography:... |
First of Wojnarowicz's memoirs of his passage from abused kid to Times Square hustler to artist in New York's East Village East Village, Manhattan The East Village is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, lying east of Greenwich Village, south of Gramercy and Stuyvesant Town, and north of the Lower East Side... underground. |
| 1992 | Memories That Smell Like Gasoline | David Wojnarowicz David Wojnarowicz David Wojnarowicz was a painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist who was prominent in the New York City art world of the 1980s.-Biography:... |
Second volume of Wojnarowicz's memoirs. |
| 1994 | American Studies | Mark Merlis | Story of a john coming to terms with his life while recovering in a hospital after being bashed Gay bashing Gay bashing and gay bullying is verbal or physical abuse against a person who is perceived to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender . Such abuse is used also to bully heterosexual persons and persons of non-specific or unknown sexual orientation.A "bashing" may be a specific incident, and one... by a hustler. |
| 1994 | User | Bruce Benderson Bruce Benderson Bruce Benderson is an American author, to Jewish parents of Russian descent, who lives in New York. He attended William Nottingham High School in Syracuse, New York and then Binghamton University... |
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| 1994 | Martin and John | Dale Peck Dale Peck Dale Peck is an American novelist, critic, and columnist. His 2009 novel, Sprout, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult literature, and was a finalist for the Stonewall Book Award in the Children's and Young Adult Literature category.-Biography:Peck was raised in Kansas,... |
One or both of the characters are hustlers in several of the parallel narrative scenes. |
| 1995 | Mysterious Skin Mysterious Skin Mysterious Skin is a 2004 drama film directed by American filmmaker Gregg Araki, who also wrote the screenplay based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Scott Heim... |
Scott Heim Scott Heim Scott Heim is an American novelist from Hutchinson, Kansas, currently living in Massachusetts. Heim's first novel, Mysterious Skin, was published in 1995.- Biography :... |
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| 1995 | L'Enfant ébloui | "Rachid O" | Semi-autobiographic novel about a hustler in Morocco Morocco Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara... . |
| 1996 | Wonder Bread and Ecstasy: The Life and Death of Joey Stefano |
Charles Isherwood Charles Isherwood -External Links:* at The New York Times* at Variety... |
Joey Stefano Joey Stefano Joey Stefano was an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay adult films.-Early life and career:... was a gay porn star of the 1990s. |
| 1996 | Seven Miles A Second | David Wojnarowicz David Wojnarowicz David Wojnarowicz was a painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist who was prominent in the New York City art world of the 1980s.-Biography:... (writer) James Romberger James Romberger James Romberger is an American fine artist and cartoonist known for his depictions of New York City's Lower East Side.Romberger's pastel drawings of the ravaged landscape of the Lower East Side and its citizens are in many public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art... (artist) |
Vertigo Comics version of Wojnarowicz's memoirs and diary. |
| 1996 | Boy Culture Boy Culture Boy Culture is an award-winning LGBT film adaptation of the 1995 novel by Matthew Rettenmund. It made its world premiere in the United Kingdom at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on April 1, 2006, and made its debut in the United States at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2006... |
Matthew Rettenmund | Includes an index to the sex passages (by preference). |
| 1996 | Brutal | Aiden Shaw Aiden Shaw Aiden Shaw is a writer and also a pornographic actor, who appears in gay American pornographic movies.... |
First novel by artist Aiden Shaw, a former prostitute and porn star. |
| 1996 | Kept Boy | Robert Rodi Robert Rodi Robert Rodi is an American novelist, playwright, comic book writer, essayist, and performance artist.-Biography:... |
Comedy novel. |
| 1997 | Quand je suis devenu fou | Christophe Donner | Narrator falls for a hustler in an Amsterdam brothel. |
| 1997 | Diary of a Hustler | "Joey" | |
| 1997 | After Nirvana | Lee Williams | |
| 1998 | The Queen of Hearts: A Transsexual Romance | Brad Clayton | |
| 1999 | Assuming the Position: A Memoir of Hustling | Rick Whitaker | |
| 1999 | Suburban Hustler: Stories of a Hi-Tech Callboy | Aaron Lawrence | |
| 2000 | Sarah Sarah (novel) Sarah is a novel by Laura Albert using the fictional teenage persona of JT LeRoy, a long-running literary hoax.- Plot introduction :Sarah is a story told by a 12-year-old boy called Cherry Vanilla, whose real name is Jeremiah... |
JT LeRoy JT LeRoy Jeremiah "Terminator" LeRoy was a pseudonym created by American writer Laura Albert. The name was used from 1996 on for publication in magazines such as Nerve and Shout NY. After his first novel Sarah was published, "LeRoy" started making public appearances... |
Pseudo-autobiographical story of a boy hustler whose mother was a truckstop prostitute. The author was revealed to be a fictional creation in 2006. |
| 2001 | A Thousand and One Night Stands: The Life of Jon Vincent | H. A. Carson | |
| 2001 | Can't Buy Me Love | Chris Kenry | Young man drifts into the world of escorting with humorous results. |
| 2002 | Sex Workers As Virtual Boyfriends | Joseph Itiel | |
| 2002 | Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent | David Henry Sterry David Henry Sterry David Henry Sterry is an American author, actor/comic, and former sex worker.- Biography :Sterry started in show business as a standup comedian in the early 1980s, opening for acts ranging from Milton Berle to Robin Williams to Dana Carvey... |
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| 2003 | Escapades of a Gay Traveler: Sexual, Cultural, and Spiritual Encounters | Joseph Itiel | |
| 2005 | Setting the Lawn on Fire: A Novel | Mack Friedman | |
| 2006 | Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins | Rupert Everett Rupert Everett Rupert James Hector Everett is an English actor. He first came to public attention in 1981, when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country as an openly gay student at an English public school, set in the 1930s... |
Touches briefly on his past as a rent boy. |
| 2008 | Shuck | Daniel Allen Cox Daniel Allen Cox Daniel Allen Cox is a Canadian author and columnist. Shuck, his semi-autobiographical debut novel about a New York City hustler, was a Lambda Literary Award and a ReLit Award finalist... |
Fictionalized memoir of a New York City hustler who dreams of becoming a writer. |
| 2008 | Murder Most Fab Murder Most Fab Murder Most Fab is the debut novel of comedian Julian Clary.-Synopsis:Still haunted by memories of his mentally ill mother and a doomed romance with a man called Timothy, rent boy Johnny Debonair moves on in the world when he breaks into the entertainment industry, eventually becoming 'Mr. Friday... |
Julian Clary Julian Clary Julian Peter McDonald Clary is an English comedian and novelist, known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre.-Early life and education:... |
Main character Johnny started life out as a high-class gigolo. |
In theater
| Year | Title | Author | Character | Originated by | Notes |
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| 1940 | Pal Joey | Richard Rodgers Richard Rodgers Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II... , Lorenz Hart Lorenz Hart Lorenz "Larry" Milton Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart... , John O'Hara John O'Hara John Henry O'Hara was an American writer. He initially became known for his short stories and later became a best-selling novelist whose works include Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. He was particularly known for an uncannily accurate ear for dialogue... |
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| 1964 | Entertaining Mr Sloane Entertaining Mr Sloane Entertaining Mr Sloane is a play by the English playwright Joe Orton. It was first produced in London at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964 and transferred to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre on 29 June 1964.-Plot summary:Act 1... |
Joe Orton Joe Orton John Kingsley Orton was an English playwright.In a short but prolific career lasting from 1964 until his death, he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies... |
Mr Sloane | Dudley Sutton Dudley Sutton -Life:He served in the RAF as a mechanic before enrolling in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from which he was later expelled.Known for his eccentricity, he became a cult figure after playing a gay biker in The Leather Boys . He married American actress Marjorie Steele in 1961; she had previously... |
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| 1965 | Balm in Gilead Balm in Gilead Balm in Gilead is a 1965 play written by American playwright Lanford Wilson.-Dramatic structure:Wilson's first full-length effort, Balm in Gilead centers on a cafe frequented by heroin addicts, prostitutes and thieves... |
Lanford Wilson Lanford Wilson Lanford Wilson was an American playwright who helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters... |
Franny Rake |
Franny is a transvestite prostitute. | |
| 1968 | The Boys in the Band The Boys in the Band (play) The Boys in the Band is a play by Mart Crowley. The off-Broadway production, directed by Robert Moore, opened on April 14, 1968 at Theater Four, where it ran for 1,001 performances, an extremely healthy run for both an off-Broadway production, and one not geared to a mainstream audience... |
Mart Crowley Mart Crowley Mart Crowley is an American playwright.Crowley was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. After graduating from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in 1957, Crowley headed west to Hollywood, where he worked for a number of television production companies before meeting Natalie Wood on... |
"Cowboy" | Robert La Tourneaux Robert La Tourneaux Robert La Tourneaux was an American actor best known for his role of Cowboy, the good-natured but dim hustler hired as a birthday present for a gay man, in the original Off-Broadway production and 1970 film version of The Boys in the Band.-Biography:La Tourneaux made his Broadway theatre debut in... |
La Tourneaux reprised the role in the 1970 film version. |
| 2005 | Trafficking in Broken Hearts | Edwin Sanchez Edwin Sánchez Edwin Sánchez is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Isidro Metapán in the Primera División of El Salvador, and for the El Salvador national team.-El Salvador:... |
Films with a hustler as a main character
| Year | Title | Country | Director | Character | Actor | Notes |
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| 1961 | Breakfast at Tiffany's | US | Blake Edwards Blake Edwards Blake Edwards was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.Edwards' career began in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia Pictures... |
Paul "Fred" Varjak | George Peppard George Peppard George Peppard, Jr. was an American film and television actor.Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's , portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers , and played the title role of the millionaire sleuth Thomas Banacek in... |
Varjak is maintained by a rich woman, Mrs. Failenson, who leaves him $300 after every sexual encounter. After falling in love with Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century... ), Varjak cuts off the relationship. Failenson offers $1000 for a "paid vacation with your girl" and cynically suggests that a union (of gigolos) could "get all the fringe benefits" - but Varjak persists in giving up this way of life. |
| 1965 | My Hustler | US | Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art... Chuck Wein |
Paul America Paul America Paul Johnson , better known as Paul America, was a member of Andy Warhol's Warhol Superstars group who starred in one Warhol-directed film, My Hustler... |
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| 1968 | Flesh Flesh (film) Flesh is a 1968 film directed by American filmmaker Paul Morrissey.Flesh is the first film of the "Paul Morrissey Trilogy" produced by Andy Warhol. The other films in the trilogy include Trash and Heat. All three have gained a cult following and are noted examples of the ideals and ideology of the... |
US | Paul Morrissey Paul Morrissey Paul Morrissey is an American film director, best-known for his association with Andy Warhol.Morrissey attended Ampleforth College, a private Roman Catholic boarding school and Fordham University, both Roman Catholic schools, and later served in the United States Army... |
Joe Dallesandro Joe Dallesandro Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro , better known as Joe Dallesandro, is an American actor, and Warhol superstar. Although he never became a mainstream film star, Dallesandro is generally considered to be the most famous male sex symbol of American underground films of the 20th century, as well as a sex... |
Dallesandro hustles to buy drugs for himself and his wife. | |
| 1969 | Entertaining Mr Sloane | UK | Douglas Hickox Douglas Hickox Douglas Hickox was an English film director. Hickox was born in London, where he was educated at Emanuel School. Hickox worked extensively as an assistant director and second unit director throughout the 50's and early 60's, making his first major picture in 1970... |
Mr Sloane | Peter McEnery Peter McEnery Peter McEnery is an English stage and film actor. His daughter Kate, by his first marriage to British actress Julie Peasgood, is an actress.... |
Adapted from the play by Joe Orton Joe Orton John Kingsley Orton was an English playwright.In a short but prolific career lasting from 1964 until his death, he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies... . |
| 1969 | Midnight Cowboy Midnight Cowboy Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. It was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman and newcomer Jon Voight in the title role. Notable smaller roles are filled by Sylvia Miles, John... |
US | John Schlesinger John Schlesinger John Richard Schlesinger, CBE was an English film and stage director and actor.-Early life:Schlesinger was born in London into a middle-class Jewish family, the son of Winifred Henrietta and Bernard Edward Schlesinger, a physician... |
Joe Buck | Jon Voight Jon Voight Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight is an American actor. He has received an Academy Award, out of four nominations, and three Golden Globe Awards, out of nine nominations. Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie.... |
Hustler Buck forms an unlikely friendship with junky Rico "Ratso" Rizzo. Academy Award winner for Best Picture. |
| 1970 | The Boys in the Band The Boys in the Band The Boys in the Band is a 1970 American drama film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Mart Crowley is based on his Off Broadway play of the same title, Crowley penned a sequel to the play years later entitled The Men From The Boys... |
US | William Friedkin William Friedkin William Friedkin is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing The French Connection in 1971 and The Exorcist in 1973; for the former, he won the Academy Award for Best Director... |
"Cowboy" | Robert La Tourneaux Robert La Tourneaux Robert La Tourneaux was an American actor best known for his role of Cowboy, the good-natured but dim hustler hired as a birthday present for a gay man, in the original Off-Broadway production and 1970 film version of The Boys in the Band.-Biography:La Tourneaux made his Broadway theatre debut in... |
Featured in rejected ads for the film under the tagline: "Today is Harold's birthday. This is his present." |
| 1978 | El Lugar Sin Limites | Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of... |
Arturo Ripstein | IMDb | ||
| 1978 | El Diputado El diputado El diputado is a 1978 Spanish drama film co-written and directed by Eloy de la Iglesia.Nowadays, the film is a portrait of the society during the Spanish transition to democracy times.-Plot summary:... (The Deputy) |
Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula... |
Eloy de la Iglesia | Teenage hustler used by the secret police for blackmail falls for the victim. IMDb | ||
| 1980 | American Gigolo American Gigolo American Gigolo is a 1980 crime drama film, written and directed by Paul Schrader. It is informally considered the second installment in his "lonely man" trilogy, following the Martin Scorsese directed Taxi Driver and preceding Light Sleeper .-Plot:Julian Kaye is a male prostitute in Los Angeles... |
US | Paul Schrader Paul Schrader Paul Joseph Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and former film critic. Apart from his credentials as a director, Schrader is most notably known for his screenplays for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.... |
Richard Gere Richard Gere Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol... |
High-class gigolo is framed for murder. | |
| 1982 | Forty Deuce | US | Paul Morrissey Paul Morrissey Paul Morrissey is an American film director, best-known for his association with Andy Warhol.Morrissey attended Ampleforth College, a private Roman Catholic boarding school and Fordham University, both Roman Catholic schools, and later served in the United States Army... |
Kevin Bacon Kevin Bacon Kevin Norwood Bacon is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Trapped, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, Crazy, Stupid, Love.... |
Conniving hustler Bacon (who won an Obie for the original 1981 off-off Broadway production) tries to cover-up the overdose death of another kid. IMDb | |
| 1983 | L'homme blessé (The Wounded Man) |
France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
Patrice Chéreau Patrice Chéreau Patrice Chéreau is a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and producer.-Biography:Patrice Chéreau was born in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, and went to school in Paris. At a young age he became well-known to Parisian critics as director, actor, and stage manager of his high-school theatre... |
Jean-Hugues Anglade Jean-Hugues Anglade Jean-Hugues Anglade is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for his roles as Eric in Killing Zoe, Zorg in Betty Blue and Marco, the boyfriend of Nikita, in Nikita.... |
Winner of a César Award César Award The César Award is the national film award of France, first given out in 1975. The nominations are selected by the members of the Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma.... for Best Direction. IMDb |
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| 1983 | Un ragazzo come tanti (A boy like many others) |
Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... |
Gianni Minello | IMDb | ||
| 1987 | Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song | Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... |
Nick Deocampo | IMDb | ||
| 1987 | Less Than Zero Less Than Zero (film) Less Than Zero is a 1987 American drama film loosely based on Bret Easton Ellis' novel of the same name. The film stars Andrew McCarthy as Clay, a college freshman returning home for Christmas to spend time with his ex-girlfriend Blair and his friend Julian , who is also a drug addict... |
US | Julian | Robert Downey, Jr. | ||
| 1988 | The Everlasting Secret Family | Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
Michael Thornhill | Mark Lee Mark Lee (actor) Mark Lee is an Australian actor and director, whose most prominent role was the lead in the film Gallipoli , alongside Mel Gibson. He has worked extensively in Australian film, television and theatre for over thirty years.... |
Homosexuality and prostitution amidst a secret brotherhood. IMDb | |
| 1988 | Macho Dancer Macho Dancer Macho Dancer is a 1988 Philippine film, directed Lino Brocka, which explores the harsh realities of a young, poor, rural gay man, who after being dumped by his American boyfriend, is forced to make a living for himself in Manila's seamy red-light district... |
Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... |
Lino Brocka Lino Brocka Catalino Ortiz Brocka is known as one of the greatest film directors of the Philippines. Brocka was openly homosexual and many of his films incorporated LGBT themes into their often dramatic storylines.... |
Pol Noel |
Macho dancers in Manila Manila Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,... . |
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| 1988 | Cop | US | James B. Harris | Based on the novel by James Ellroy James Ellroy Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a so-called "telegraphic" prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black... . IMDb |
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| 1990 | Via Appia | Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
Jochen Hick | IMDb | ||
| 1991 | My Own Private Idaho My Own Private Idaho My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 independent drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V, and starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves... |
US | Gus Van Sant Gus Van Sant Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an American director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and author. He is a two time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film Milk, both of which were also nominated for Best Picture, and won the... |
Mike Waters Scott Favor |
River Phoenix River Phoenix River Jude Phoenix was an American film actor, musician, and teen icon. He was the oldest brother of fellow actors Rain, Joaquin, Liberty, and Summer Phoenix.Phoenix began acting at age 10 in television commercials... Keanu Reeves Keanu Reeves Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. Reeves is perhaps best known for his roles in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed, Point Break and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix... |
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| 1991 | J'embrasse pas J'embrasse pas I Don't Kiss is a 1991 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Manuel Blanc, Emmanuelle Béart and Philippe Noiret. The film is a grim, melancholic portrait of a young man searching and failing to find meaning in his life. The film had a total of 472,187 admissions in France... (I don't kiss) |
France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
André Téchiné André Téchiné André Téchiné , is a French screenwriter and film director. He has had a long and distinguished career that places him among the best post-New Wave French film directors.... |
Manuel Blanc | A boy from the provinces ends up as a hustler in Paris. | |
| 1992 | Film (Fill 'em) | Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
Sky Gilbert | Story of a male hustler and his roommate. IMDb | ||
| 1992 | Street Kid (Gossenkind) | Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
Peter Kern | Axel Glitter | A young hustler in Düsseldorf. IMDb | |
| 1992 | Being at Home with Claude | Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
Jean Beaudin | Him (Yves) | Roy Dupuis | IMDb |
| 1992 | The Living End The Living End (film) The Living End is a 1992 film by Gregg Araki. Described by some critics as a "gay Thelma and Louise," the film is an early entry in the New Queer Cinema genre. The Living End was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992.... |
US | Gregg Araki Gregg Araki Gregg Araki is an American independent filmmaker. He is involved in New Queer Cinema.-Early life:Araki was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Santa Barbara, California... |
Luke | Mike Dytri | HIV+ street hustler. |
| 1992 | Die Blaue Stunde (The Blue Hour) |
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... Switzerland |
Marcel Gisler | Theo | Andreas Herder | IMDb |
| 1993 | Smukke dreng (Pretty Boy) |
Denmark Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark... |
Carsten Sønder | IMDb | ||
| 1993 | Hatachi no binetsu Hatachi no binetsu Hatachi No Binetsu is a Japanese film directed by Ryosuke Hashiguchi, starring Yoshihiko Hakamada and Masashi Endo, released in 1993.- Plot outline :... (Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old) |
Japan | Ryosuke Hasiguchi | One teenage hustler in love with another. | ||
| 1994 | Post Cards from America | UK | Steve McLean | Three chapters in David Wojnarowicz David Wojnarowicz David Wojnarowicz was a painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist who was prominent in the New York City art world of the 1980s.-Biography:... 's life. IMDb |
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| 1994 | Super 8½ | Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
Bruce LaBruce Bruce LaBruce Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground gay porn director based in Toronto, Ontario.-Biography:... |
Semi-autobiographical. | ||
| 1994 | Sibak (Midnight Dancers) | Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... |
Mel Chionglo | Three brothers in Manila, working as "Macho Dancers" in a gay bar. IMDb | ||
| 1995 | The Basketball Diaries The Basketball Diaries (film) The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American drama film directed by Scott Kalvert, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, James Madio, and Mark Wahlberg... |
US | Scott Kalvert | Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer. He has received many awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator , and has been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television... Mark Wahlberg Mark Wahlberg Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American actor, film and television producer, and former rapper. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years, and became famous for his 1991 debut as a musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He was named No. 1 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of... |
Based on the book by Jim Carroll Jim Carroll James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.-Biography:Carroll was born to a... . |
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| 1995 | Dupe Od Mramora (Marble Ass) | Serbia Serbia Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans... |
Zelimir Zilnik | Transvestite prostitutes in Serbia. IMDb | ||
| 1995 | Tattoo Boy | US | Arizona Sam |
Amanda Tirey C.J. Barkus |
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| 1996 | The Toilers and the Wayfarers | US | Keith Froelich | Matt Klemp Andrew Woodhouse |
Runaway hustlers in Minneapolis. IMDb | |
| 1996 | Hustler White Hustler White Hustler White is a 1996 film by Bruce LaBruce and Rick Castro, a satiric black sex comedy about gay hustlers and their customers in Santa Monica, California. It stars Tony Ward and LaBruce in an addition to the Queer Cinema canon, which is also an homage to classic Hollywood cinema... |
US | Rick Castro Rick Castro Rick Castro is an American photographer, motion picture director and stylist whose work focuses on bondage and sado-masochistic sex.-Early life:Rick Castro was born in Los Angeles, California.... Bruce LaBruce Bruce LaBruce Bruce LaBruce is a Canadian writer, filmmaker, photographer and underground gay porn director based in Toronto, Ontario.-Biography:... |
Monti | Tony Ward | |
| 1996 | The Unveiling | US | Rodney Evans | IMDb | ||
| 1996 | "Tapin du soir", included in L'Amour est à réinventer | France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
Anne Fontaine Anne Fontaine (filmmaker) Anne Fontaine is a filmmaker and screenwriter who used to be an actor. She lives and works in France.Born Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc, sister of actor Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, she went as a young child to live in Lisbon, where her father, Antoine Sibertin-Blanc, is a music professor and cathedral... |
One of ten collected short films about life in France in the time of AIDS. | ||
| 1996 | Skin & Bone | US | Everett Lewis | Harry Billy Dean |
B. Wyatt Garret Scullin Alan Boyce |
Three Los Angeles hustlers in different stages of their careers. |
| 1996 | johns Johns (film) Johns is a 1996 American drama film starring David Arquette and Lukas Haas, who portray hustlers who work Santa Monica Boulevard. The title refers both to the slang term for a sex client and to several characters in the film named John .Johns was one of several films dealing with this subject... |
US | Scott Silvers | Donner John |
Lukas Haas Lukas Haas Lukas Daniel Haas is an American actor, known for roles both as a child and as an adult. His career has spanned more than 25 years during which time he has appeared in more than 36 feature films, as well as a number of television shows and theater productions.-Early life and career:Haas was born... David Arquette David Arquette David Arquette is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, fashion designer, and occasional professional wrestler. A member of the Arquette acting family, he first became known during the mid 1990s after starring in several Hollywood films, such as the Scream series, Wild Bill and... |
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| 1997 | Private Shows | US | Blaine Hopkins Stephen Winter |
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| 1997 | Mandragora Mandragora (film) Mandragora is a 1997 film by Polish director Wiktor Grodecki about the mental and physical decline of a 15-year old boy who runs away from his seemingly distanced father to Prague, where he becomes a victim of the drug and sex scene.... |
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992... |
Wiktor Grodecki Wiktor Grodecki Wiktor Grodecki is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer known for MANDRAGORA Wiktor Grodecki (born 25 February 1960 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer known for MANDRAGORA Wiktor Grodecki (born 25 February 1960 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director,... |
Marek | Miroslav Caslavka | IMDb |
| 1997 | A River Made to Drown In A River Made to Drown In A River Made to Drown In is a 1997 drama film starring Michael Imperioli, Richard Chamberlain, Ute Lemper and James Duval. Directed by James Merendino, Merendino had his name removed and the film is credited to Alan Smithee... |
US | Michael Imperioli Michael Imperioli James Michael Imperioli , commonly known as Michael Imperioli, is an American actor and television writer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004. He also... James Duval James Duval James Edward Duval is an American actor, who is most famous for his roles in the Gregg Araki trilogy—Totally Fucked Up, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere—in addition to Frank in Donnie Darko, Blank in May, Miguel in Independence Day and Singh in Go.-Personal life:Duval was born in Detroit, Michigan... |
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| 1997 | Star Maps Star Maps (film) Star Maps , directed by Miguel Arteta, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. It was a critical hit, receiving five Independent Spirit Award nominations, including Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay.-Cast:... |
US | Miguel Arteta Miguel Arteta Miguel Arteta is a Puerto Rican director of film and television, known for his independent film Chuck & Buck , for which he received the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award.-Early life:... |
Douglas Spain | IMDb | |
| 1998 | Hard | US | John Huckert | IMDb | ||
| 1998 | In the Flesh | US | Ben Taylor | Oliver Beck | Dane Ritter | |
| 1998 | L'École de la Chair | France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
Benoît Jacquot Benoît Jacquot Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and... |
Quentin | Vincent Martinez | IMDb |
| 1999 | Speedway Junky Speedway Junky Speedway Junky is a 1999 film written and directed by Nickolas Perry. It stars Jesse Bradford, Jordan Brower, Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Daryl Hannah.-Plot:The film stars Jesse Bradford as Johnny, a young man with dreams of becoming a stock car racer... |
US | Nickolas Perry | Jonathan Taylor Thomas Jonathan Taylor Thomas Jonathan Taylor Thomas is an American actor, voice actor, former child star, and teen idol... |
A young man with dreams of becoming a stock car racer drifts into the world of prostitution in Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous... . |
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| 1999 | Mauvaise passe | France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
Michel Blanc Michel Blanc Michel Blanc is a French actor and director who is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs... |
Pierre | Daniel Auteuil Daniel Auteuil Daniel Auteuil is a French film, television and theatre actor.-Early life and education:He was born in Algiers, French Algeria.-Career:... |
Pierre (Daniel Auteuil) leaves his family and flees to London to work on a novel. There he meets Tom (Stuart Townsend), a male escort, who leads Pierre into his underground world of sex and money. |
| 2000 | Km. 0 Km. 0 Km. 0 is a 2000 film from Spain that tells several intertwining tales of mistaken identity and coincidental meetings that take place near the Kilometre Zero marker in the Puerta del Sol in Madrid.-Plot:Km... |
Spain | Miguel | A gigolo who services female clients. | ||
| 2000 | L.I.E. L.I.E. L.I.E. is a 2001 American independent film about a relationship between Howie, a 15-year-old boy, and a pedophile known as 'Big John'. The title is an acronym for the Long Island Expressway. The film was directed by Michael Cuesta, who has said that the film is about exploring sexuality... |
US | Michael Cuesta Michael Cuesta Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director. Cuesta co-wrote and directed the 2001 independent film, L.I.E.. He has directed and produced television series including Six Feet Under, Dexter and Blue Bloods.-Biography:He received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in... |
Gary | Paul Dano Billy Kay |
A Long Island teenager discovers his best friend (Kay) is a hustler. |
| 2001 | Circuit Circuit (film) Circuit is a 2001 gay-themed independent film set in the world of gay circuit parties. Written by Dirk Shafer and Gregory Hinton and directed by Shafer, Circuit follows the lives of several people involved in the circuit party scene. Shot on digital video over a period of six months, Shafer was... |
US | Dirk Shafer Dirk Shafer Dirk Alan Shafer is an American model, actor, screenwriter and director. He is most noted in the modeling world for being Playgirl magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1992. He did Playgirl for "validation" as a model because he never believed himself to be attractive... |
Hector | Andre Khabbazi Andre Khabbazi Andre Khabbazi was born to Assyrian Iranian-American parents in 1975 in Sacramento, CA. Based in Los Angeles, California, he started his artistic career as an actor in several TV series and soap operas and later on starred in a 2001 movie titled Circuit along with Jonathan Wade-Drahos and Kiersten... |
A hustler who's terrified of growing old. |
| 2001 | Vagón fumador (Smokers Only) | Argentina | Verónica Chen | Leonardo Brzezicki | Andrés | A suicidal woman and a male prostitute fall in love. IMDb |
| 2002 | AKA AKA (film) AKA is a 2002 drama film, the first by director and writer Duncan Roy. The film is set in the late 1970s in Britain and deals with the story of Dean, an 18-year-old boy who assumes another identity in order to enter high society. Dean then meets David, an older gay man who desires him and Benjamin,... |
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| 2002 | Sonny Sonny (film) Sonny is a 2002 film starring James Franco, Harry Dean Stanton, Brenda Blethyn, Mena Suvari and Josie Davis. Director Nicolas Cage has a small cameo role. Sonny was co-produced by Cage's production company Saturn Films.-Plot:... |
US | Nicolas Cage Nicolas Cage Nicolas Cage is an American actor, producer and director, having appeared in over 60 films including Raising Arizona , The Rock , Face/Off , Gone in 60 Seconds , Adaptation , National Treasure , Ghost Rider , Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans , and... |
Sonny | James Franco James Franco James Edward Franco is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author, painter, performance artist and instructor at New York University. He left college in order to pursue acting and started off his career by making guest appearances on television series in the 1990s... |
Raised by his mother to be a gigolo. IMDb |
| 2003 | Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler | US | Ian McCrudden | IMDb | ||
| 2003 | 200 American | US | Richard LeMay | New York businessman falls for Australian hustler. IMDb | ||
| 2003 | Un fils (A son) | France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
Amal Bedjaoui | North-African hustler in France. IMDb | ||
| 2003 | Gan (Garden) | Israel | Ruthie Shatz Adi Barash |
Two young gay prostitutes in Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with... . IMDb |
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| 2003 | Twist Twist (film) Twist is a 2003 Canadian drama film and a queer retelling of Charles Dickens' classic, Oliver Twist.-Plot:The plot is updated to the present day, and moved out of the London poor house onto the streets of Toronto. In addition, the tale is told not from Oliver's point of view, but rather that of Dodge... |
Dodge | Nick Stahl Nick Stahl Nicolas Kent "Nick" Stahl is an American actor. Starting out as a child actor, he gained recognition for his performance in the 1993 film The Man Without a Face and then embarked on a successful career as a child actor... |
Gay-themed re-telling of Dickens' Oliver Twist. | ||
| 2003 | Bulgarian Lovers (Los Novios búlgaros) |
Spain | Eloy de la Iglesia Eloy de la Iglesia Eloy de la Iglesia was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker who is relatively unknown outside of Spain despite a prolific and successful career in his native country... |
Kyril | Dritan Biba | IMDb |
| 2004 | Yeladim Tovim (Good Boy) | Israel | Yair Hochner | Two Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with... rent boys. IMDb |
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| 2004 | Eighteen | Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
Richard Bell | IMDb | ||
| 2004 | Trois 3: The Escort Trois 3: The Escort Trois 3: The Escort is a 2004 thriller released straight to DVD on December 28, 2004 as a sequel to 2002's Trois 2: Pandora's Box. It is the third film in the series.-Cast:... |
US | Sylvain White Sylvain White Sylvain White is a film director.Son of an American professional basketball player and a French flight attendant, Sylvain White was born in France and grew up mostly in Paris. After attending La Sorbonne University for law, he earned a scholarship to Pomona College in California, where he... |
Hip-hop promoter becomes an escort after getting into debt with a gangster. | ||
| 2004 | Ethan Mao Ethan Mao Ethan Mao is a 2004 dramafilm written and directed by Quentin Lee. It was shown at the AFI Film Festival on November 10, 2004 and the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on December 10 of the same year... |
Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour... |
Quentin Lee Quentin Lee Quentin Lee 李孟熙 is a film writer and director. He is most notable for Ethan Mao , Drift , Flow , and the film short To Ride a Cow . Lee also co-directed Shopping For Fangs with Justin Lin, known for his controversial film Better Luck Tomorrow... |
Ethan Mao, Remigio | Jun Hee Lee Jun Hee Lee Jun Hee Lee is an American actor.Lee was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His most major film role was that of the title character in the 2004 film Ethan Mao... , Jerry Hernandez |
An Asian gay teen is kicked out of his house and forced to become a hustler for money. Soon, he meets Remigio, a teen hustler and drug dealer, and the two become friends. |
| 2004 | Sugar | Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... |
John Palmer | Butch | Brendan Fehr Brendan Fehr Brendan Jacob Joel Fehr is a Canadian actor. He portrayed Michael Guerin on the WB television series Roswell and Laboratory Tech Dan Cooper in CSI: Miami.-Early life:... |
Coming of age story. |
| 2004 | Mysterious Skin Mysterious Skin Mysterious Skin is a 2004 drama film directed by American filmmaker Gregg Araki, who also wrote the screenplay based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Scott Heim... |
US | Gregg Araki Gregg Araki Gregg Araki is an American independent filmmaker. He is involved in New Queer Cinema.-Early life:Araki was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Santa Barbara, California... |
Neil McCormick | Joseph Gordon-Levitt Joseph Gordon-Levitt Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt is an American actor whose career as both a child and adult has included television series and theatrical films.... |
Based on Scott Heim Scott Heim Scott Heim is an American novelist from Hutchinson, Kansas, currently living in Massachusetts. Heim's first novel, Mysterious Skin, was published in 1995.- Biography :... 's book. |
| 2004 | My Hustler Boyfriend | Peter Pizzi | Short included in video program at Newfest 2005. IMDb | |||
| 2005 | Dirty Little Sins | US | ||||
| 2005 | Boy Wonder | US | Kery Isabel Ramierez | Luis | Color video short (12 min) about a man living a double life as "straight male" provider and transvestite prostitute. Included in MIX NYC MIX NYC MIX NYC is a not-for-profit organization based in New York City and dedicated to queer experimental film. It is also known as the "MIX festival," for its most visible program, the annual New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival.- History :... November 2006. |
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| 2005 | The Wedding Date The Wedding Date The Wedding Date is a 2005 romantic comedy directed by Clare Kilner, who also directed How to Deal . The release was successful achieving $47 million worldwide at the box office against a budget of $15 million... |
US | Claire Kilner | Nick Mercer | Dermot Mulroney Dermot Mulroney -Early life:Mulroney was born in Alexandria, Virginia, the son of Ellen, a housewife and amateur actress originally from Manchester, Iowa, and Michael Mulroney, a law professor at Villanova University School of Law, originally from Elkader, Iowa. He has a sister, Moira, and three brothers, Conor,... |
Woman hires male escort to pose as her boyfriend. |
| 2005 | Transamerica Transamerica (film) Transamerica is a 2005 independent comedy-drama film produced by IFC Films and The Weinstein Company. The film tells the story of Bree, a transsexual woman , who goes on a road trip with her long-lost son Toby .... |
US | Duncan Tucker | Toby Wilkins | Kevin Zegers Kevin Zegers Kevin Joseph Zegers is a Canadian actor and model. He is best known for his leading roles as Josh Framm in the Air Bud series, as well as playing Damien Dalgaard in the Gossip Girl series and the protagonist in Rock Mafia's The Big Bang... |
Pre-operative M2F transsexual discovers she has a son (Zegers) who is hustling in New York. |
| 2005 | Breakfast on Pluto Breakfast on Pluto (film) Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe... |
UK | Neil Jordan Neil Jordan Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.- Early life :... |
Cillian Murphy Cillian Murphy Cillian Murphy is an Irish film and theatre actor. He is often noted by critics for his chameleonic performances in diverse roles and distinctive blue eyes and general sex appeal.... |
Based on the novel by Patrick McCabe. Transvestite flees Ireland for London during the 1970s and becomes a prostitute. | |
| 2006 | Boy Culture Boy Culture Boy Culture is an award-winning LGBT film adaptation of the 1995 novel by Matthew Rettenmund. It made its world premiere in the United Kingdom at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on April 1, 2006, and made its debut in the United States at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2006... |
US | Q. Allan Brocka Q. Allan Brocka Quenton Allan Brocka is an award-winning American television and film director based in West Hollywood, California. He has directed and written a number of feature films while creating an animated television series for the Logo cable network... |
Based on the novel. | ||
| 2006 | Can't Buy Me Love | US | Todd Wilson Todd Wilson (director) Todd Chadwick Wilson was a film director who made several gay films. Wilson's two feature films highlight gay male Asian-White relationships.... |
Short film from Newfest 2006. IMDb | ||
| 2006 | In The Blood | US | Lou Peterson | Gay supernatural thriller featuring a young man dating a Latino hustler. IMDb | ||
| 2006 | Boys Briefs 4 | US | Six short films about guys who hustle: Boy (Welby Ings); Gigolo (Bastian Schweitzer); Build (Greg Atkins); Into the Night (Tony Krawitz); Gold (Armen Kazazian); Rock Bottom (Mary Feuer). review | |||
| 2006 | Happy Hookers | India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... |
Ashish Sawhny | The lives of three male sex workers in India. Short film from Newfest 2007. | ||
| 2006 | Into It | US | Jeff Maccubbin | Two hustlers dealing with drugs and relationships. Film from Newfest 2007. | ||
| 2007 | Before I Forget Before I Forget (film) Before I forget is a 2007 French drama film directed, written and starred by Jacques Nolot. The film portrays the live of an aging gay man, who was a hustler in his youth, confronting old age, an empty life and a reversal of paying for sex.-Plot :... |
France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
Jacques Nolot | An aging hustler reflects on his life. IMDb | ||
| 2008 | Strictly Sexual | US | Joel Viertel | Two women hire two unemployed construction workers as sex slaves. | ||
| 2008 | Cliente (A French Gigolo; The Client) | France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
Josiane Balasko Josiane Balasko Josiane Balasko is a French actress, writer and director.She was born Josiane Balašković in Paris. One of Balasko's most recognized roles among English speakers is as a lesbian in 1995's Gazon maudit... |
Patrick/Marco | Eric Caravaca Eric Caravaca Eric Caracava is a French actor and director.The son of an engineer, Caracava studied literature while taking acting lessons... |
A female television anchor falls in love with an internet escort. IMDb |
| 2009 | Lucky Bastard Lucky Bastard Lucky Bastard is a 2009 drama film written and directed by Everett Lewis. The film premiered as an Official Selection of the 27th annual Outfest LGBT film festival.-Plot:Rusty is a young designer with a successful business and a great boyfriend... |
US | Everett Lewis Everett Lewis Everett Lewis is an American director, screenwriter and producer. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from North Carolina State University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California... |
Denny | Dale Dymkoski | Denny is a hustler and meth addict who exploits a man who's fallen in love with him. Lucky Bastard was an Official Selection at Outfest Outfest Outfest is an LGBT-oriented film showcase and festival in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1982 as the "Gay and Lesbian Media Festival and Conference", the name was changed to Outfest in 1994.-Programs:... 2009. |
| 2009 | Complices (Accomplices) | France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... |
Frédéric Mermoud | Vincent Bouvier | Cyril Descours | Two detectives try to solve Victor's murder. Victor appears only in flashbacks. |
| 2010 | Strapped | US | Joseph Graham | Hustler | Ben Bonenfant | A nameless hustler encounters a series of gay men as he searches for the exit to a client's apartment building. |
Other films that include hustlers
- The Cheat (la Triche) (FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
: 1984, by Yannick Bellon with Victor Lanoux and Xavier Deluc) - JFKJFK (film)JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison .Garrison filed charges against New Orleans businessman Clay...
(US: 1991, by Oliver StoneOliver StoneWilliam Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...
) - Kevin BaconKevin BaconKevin Norwood Bacon is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, Apollo 13, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Trapped, Friday the 13th, Hollow Man, Tremors, Death Sentence, Frost/Nixon, Crazy, Stupid, Love....
plays a gay hustler associated with Oswald - By The Dawn's Early Light (DenmarkDenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
: 1993, by Knud VesterskovKnud VesterskovKnud Vesterskov is a Danish film director who originally made his mark with a long string of experimental art films. He later wrote and directed two highly unusual hardcore feature films, Constance and HotMen CoolBoyz , both produced by Lars von Trier's company Zentropa Entertainments based in...
, narrated by David WojnarowiczDavid WojnarowiczDavid Wojnarowicz was a painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, and activist who was prominent in the New York City art world of the 1980s.-Biography:...
) - L.A. ConfidentialL.A. Confidential (film)L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American film based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel of the same title, the third book in his L.A. Quartet. Both the book and the film tell the story of a group of LAPD officers in the 1950s, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity...
(US: 1997, by Curtis HansonCurtis HansonCurtis Lee Hanson is an American film director, film producer and screenwriter. His directing work includes The Hand That Rocks the Cradle , L.A...
) - includes a subplot with a young would-be actor who agrees to sleep with the D.A. for cash, but ends up with his throat cut - Boogie NightsBoogie NightsBoogie Nights is a 1997 drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, the script focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, and chronicles his rise and fall from the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s...
(US: 1997, by Paul Thomas AndersonPaul Thomas AndersonPaul Thomas Anderson is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He has written and directed five feature films: Hard Eight , Boogie Nights , Magnolia , Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood...
, with Mark WahlbergMark WahlbergMark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American actor, film and television producer, and former rapper. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years, and became famous for his 1991 debut as a musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He was named No. 1 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of...
and Burt ReynoldsBurt ReynoldsBurton Leon "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. is an American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Bobby "Gator" McCluskey in White Lightning and sequel Gator, Paul Crewe and Coach Nate Scarborough in The Longest Yard and its...
) - Midnight in the Garden of Good and EvilMidnight in the Garden of Good and EvilMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a non-fiction work by John Berendt. Published in 1994, the book was Berendt's first, and became a The New York Times bestseller for 216 weeks following its debut....
(US: 1997, by Clint EastwoodClint EastwoodClinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...
, with Kevin SpaceyKevin SpaceyKevin Spacey, CBE is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and crooner. He grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television...
; Jude LawJude LawDavid Jude Heyworth Law , known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989...
and John CusackJohn CusackJohn Paul Cusack is an American film actor and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 50 films, including The Journey of Natty Gann, Say Anything..., Grosse Point Blank, The Thin Red Line, Stand by Me, Con Air, Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, Serendipity, Runaway Jury, The Ice Harvest,...
) - based on John BerendtJohn BerendtJohn Berendt is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction....
's best-selling book, a prominent Savannah citizen (Spacey) shoots to death his lover - Happy Together (Hong KongHong KongHong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
: 1997, by Wong Kar-waiWong Kar-waiWong Kar-wai BBS is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild , Ashes of Time , Chungking Express , Fallen Angels , Happy Together and 2046...
, with Leslie CheungLeslie CheungLeslie Cheung Kwok-Wing , nicknamed elder brother , was a film actor and musician from Hong Kong. Cheung was considered as "one of the founding fathers of Cantopop", and "combining a hugely successful film and music career".In 2000, Cheung was named Asian Biggest Superstar by China Central...
and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai; in Mardarin, Cantonese and Spanish) - the brash and irresponsible Ho Po-Wing (Chang) makes his money from the street - Artificial Intelligence: A.I. (US: 2001, by Steven SpielbergSteven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
, with Haley Joel OsmentHaley Joel OsmentHaley Joel Osment is an American actor. After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a small part in Forrest Gump playing Tom Hanks' title character’s son, Osment rose to fame with his performance as Cole Sear in M...
and Jude LawJude LawDavid Jude Heyworth Law , known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989... - Vers le sud (Heading South) (FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
: 2005, by Laurent CantetLaurent CantetLaurent Cantet is a French director, born on June 15, 1961 at Melle . His parents were schoolteachers in Ardilleux.On 25 May 2008, he received the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes 2008, for the movie Entre les murs.- As director :...
) - A Single ManA Single Man (film)A Single Man is a 2009 drama film based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. It is the first film directed by Tom Ford. The film stars Colin Firth, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of George Falconer, a depressed gay British university...
(US: 2010, Tom FordTom FordThomas Carlyle "Tom" Ford is an American fashion designer and film director. He gained international fame for his turnaround of the Gucci fashion house and the creation of the Tom Ford label before directing the Oscar-nominated film A Single Man.-Early life :Tom Ford was born August 27, 1961 in...
)
Documentary films
| Year | Title | Country | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Portrait of Jason | US | Shirley Clarke Shirley Clarke Shirley Clarke was an American independent filmmaker.-Early life:Born Shirley Brimberg in New York City, Shirley Clarke was the daughter of a Polish-immigrant father who made his fortune in manufacturing. Her mother was the daughter of a multimillionaire Jewish manufacturer and inventor. Her... |
Interview with African-American gay hustler Jason Holliday. |
| 1992 | Maybe I Can Give You Sex? Part I | Philippines Germany |
Rune Layumas Jurgen Bruning |
Examine gender roles in the Philippines and the lives of macho dancers, bar boys, and their customers. |
| 1992 | Maybe I Can Give You Sex? Part II | Philippines Germany |
Rune Layumas | |
| 1992 | A Kind of Family | Canada | Andrew Koster | Profile of the relationship of a gay city councilman and his straight, street-kid, hustler, drug-abusing, HIV+ foster son. |
| 1993 | Boys From Brazil | Brazil | John-Paul Davidson John-Paul Davidson -Filmography:*Fry's Planet Word TV documentary series*Last Chance to See TV nature series*Stephen Fry In America TV documentary series... |
Brazilian transvestite prostitutes. |
| 1994 | Not Angels But Angels Not Angels But Angels Not Angels But Angels is a 1994 documentary film about young men in Prague working as prostitutes. The creator of the documentary, Wiktor Grodecki interviews the men, some of whom are underage, to find out more about their lives and how they came to be making a living by selling sex... |
Czechoslovakia | Wiktor Grodecki Wiktor Grodecki Wiktor Grodecki is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer known for MANDRAGORA Wiktor Grodecki (born 25 February 1960 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director, screenwriter and producer known for MANDRAGORA Wiktor Grodecki (born 25 February 1960 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director,... |
About prostitution in Prague. |
| 1996 | Body Without Soul Body Without Soul Body Without Soul is a 1994 documentary film about young boys in Prague working as prostitutes. The creator of the documentary, Wiktor Grodecki interviews the boys whose age ranges between 14-17 to find out more about their lives and how they got into the business... |
Czechoslovakia | Teenage guys who prostitute in Prague. | |
| 2000 | 101 Rent Boys 101 Rent Boys 101 Rent Boys is a 2000 documentary film that explores the West Hollywood hustler scene. The producers recruited 101 hustlers from on and around Santa Monica Boulevard and paid each of them $50 for their time... |
US | Fenton Bailey Randy Barbato |
Interviews with hustlers who work Santa Monica Boulevard. |
| 2006 | Hooks to the Left | US | Todd Verow Todd Verow Todd Verow is an American film director who now resides in New York City, New York. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design and the AFI Conservatory. Together with his creative partner, James Derek Dwyer, he formed Bangor Films in 1995. He was also the cinematographer for Jon Moritsugu's... |
Shot on a cell-phone camera, narrated journal of a New York hustler named Nail. Short film (75 min) from Newfest 2007. |
| 2009 | Men for Sale Men for Sale Men for Sale also known by its French language title Hommes à louer is a 2009 documentary film by Canadian director Rodrigue Jean, about male prostitutes working in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The interviews for Hommes à louer are in French language... |
Canada | Rodrigue Jean Rodrigue Jean Rodrigue Jean is an award-winning Canadian film director of Acadian origin. He studied biology, sociology and literature. He was a dancer and choreographer in the 1980s. He then studied theatre and directing in London and Tokyo.... |
Film about male prostitutes in Montreal Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America... . |
On television
The following television programs feature a hustler as a main character:| Year | Title | Network | Character | Actor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn was a NBC made-for-television movie, that was first telecast on May 16, 1977, and was directed by John Erman. It was a sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, which came out the prior year,... |
ABC American Broadcasting Company The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948... |
Alexander | Leigh McCloskey Leigh McCloskey Leigh Joseph McCloskey is an American film and television actor.-Career:McCloskey was classically trained as an actor at the Juilliard School in Lincoln Center, New York. As an actor, he is perhaps most widely known for his role as Mitch Cooper on the CBS soap opera Dallas... |
Sequel to Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway is an NBC made-for-television movie. It premiered on September 27, 1976. The movie is about a 15-year-old girl named Dawn Wetherby who runs away from home to Hollywood, California and becomes a prostitute to support herself. Dawn finds herself taken under the... . |
| 1993 | Dafydd | BBC | Welsh boy/hustler goes to Amsterdam and meets a music teacher. | ||
| 2000–2005 | Queer as Folk Queer as Folk (US TV series) Queer as Folk is an American and Canadian television series co-production, produced by Showtime and Temple Street Productions, which was based on the British series of the same name, created by Russell T Davies... |
Showtime | James "Hunter" Montgomery | Harris Allan Harris Allan Harris Allan is an actor and recording artist under the moniker Fallan Soldier. He attended Lord Roberts Elementary and King George Secondary High School in Vancouver, B.C.... |
Pushed into hustling by his mother; adopted by Michael Novotny and Ben Bruchner. |
| 2001–2008 | Trailer Park Boys Trailer Park Boys Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The... |
Showcase | Randy | Patrick Roach Patrick Roach Patrick Roach is a Canadian actor best known for playing the always shirtless and cheeseburger-addicted assistant trailer park supervisor Randy on the cult television series Trailer Park Boys.... |
The character on the hit Canadian mockumentary television show is an ex-prostitute. |
| 2004– | Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W... |
ABC American Broadcasting Company The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948... |
Andrew Van de Kamp Andrew Van De Kamp Andrew Van de Kamp is a fictional character in the ABC television series Desperate Housewives played by Shawn Pyfrom, and is the son of Bree Van de Kamp and the late Rex Van de Kamp.... |
Shawn Pyfrom Shawn Pyfrom Shawn Caminiti Pyfrom is an American actor who has appeared in several television series and movies, and is best known for his portrayal of Andrew Van de Kamp on ABC's Desperate Housewives-Life and career:... |
Survived on the streets as a hustler after being thrown out of his house by his mother Bree. |
| 2006–2009 | Dante's Cove Dante's Cove Dante's Cove is an American LGBT-oriented supernatural soap opera. The series airs on here!, an American gay-oriented network, and on Gay.com.... |
here! Here! (TV network) here! is an American premium television network targeting the LGBT audiences. Launched in 2002, here! is available nationwide on all major cable systems, fiber optics systems, and Internet TV providers as either a 24/7 premium subscription channel, a video on demand service, and/or a subscription... |
Kevin | Gregory Michael Gregory Michael Gregory Michael is an American actor who most recently starred as "Grant," a fraternity brother, on the ABC Family television series Greek.-Biography:... |
Confessed to his boyfriend that he sometimes used to accept money for sex. |
| 2009– | Hung Hung (TV series) Hung is a comedy-drama series, which premiered on HBO on June 28, 2009. The series was created by Dmitry Lipkin and Colette Burson and stars Thomas Jane as Ray Drecker, a struggling suburban Detroit high school baseball coach who resorts to male prostitution. The second season premiered on June 27,... |
HBO | Ray Drecker | Thomas Jane Thomas Jane Thomas Jane is an American actor known for his roles in the 1999 film Deep Blue Sea, the 2001 TV film 61*, the 2004 film The Punisher and the 2007 Stephen King adaptation The Mist... |
An unhappy and financially strapped history teacher and basketball coach, who decides to turn his large penis into an opportunity to make money. |
| 2011 | Gigolos Gigolos For the occupation of gigolo, see Male prostitutionGigolos is an American reality television series about the lives of five male escorts in Las Vegas. The series follows the men, all employees of the same escort agency, through their daily lives and interactions with each other. Cameras also follow... |
Showtime | Reality television series following the lives of five male escorts who service female clients in Las Vegas Las Vegas metropolitan area The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ... . |
In photography
The following photographers, in their work, frequently use the image of the male prostitute:- Alberto Sorbelli
- Larry ClarkLarry ClarkLawrence Donald "Larry" Clark is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa...
- Terry RichardsonTerry RichardsonTerrence "Terry" Richardson is an American fashion photographer.-Early life:Richardson was born in New York City, the son of Bob Richardson, a fashion photographer who struggled with schizophrenia and drug abuse...
- Nan GoldinNan GoldinNancy "Nan" Goldin is an American photographer.-Life and work:Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Lexington, to middle class Jewish parents whose ideas, moderately liberal and progressive, were put to the test when on April 12, 1965 their eldest...
- Wolfgang TillmansWolfgang TillmansWolfgang Tillmans is a German Fine-art photographer and artist. His comprehensive and diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer and also the first...
- Jack PiersonJack PiersonJack Pierson is a photographer and an artist. He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books...
- Wilhelm von GloedenWilhelm von GloedenBaron Wilhelm von Gloeden was a German photographer who worked mainly in Italy. He is mostly known for his pastoral nude studies of Sicilian boys, which usually featured props such as wreaths or amphoras suggesting a setting in the Greece or Italy of antiquity...
- Philip Lorca diCorcia