House of Pleasures
House of Pleasures
House of Pleasures
Watch TrailerWatch Movie
2011
2h 6m
6.5(274 votes)
Drama

Overview

The dawn of the 20th century: L’Apollonide, a luxurious and traditional brothel in Paris, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the women share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains.

Links & Resources

WebsiteIMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

ARTE France Cinéma

Videos & Trailers

1 video

Cast & Crew

50 members
Acting

Noémie Lvovsky

Marie-France

Noémie Lvovsky
Acting

Hafsia Herzi

Samira

Hafsia Herzi
Acting

Céline Sallette

Clotilde

Céline Sallette
Acting

Jasmine Trinca

Julie

Jasmine Trinca
Acting

Adèle Haenel

Léa

Adèle Haenel
Acting

Alice Barnole

Madeleine

Alice Barnole
Acting

Iliana Zabeth

Pauline

Iliana Zabeth
Production

Judith Lou Lévy

Prostitute

Judith Lou Lévy
Acting

Pauline Jacquard

Prostitute

Pauline Jacquard
Acting

Anaïs Thomas

Prostitute

No Image
Directing

Maïa Sandoz

Prostitute

Maïa Sandoz
Directing

Joanna Grudzinska

Prostitute

Joanna Grudzinska
Acting

Esther Garrel

Prostitute

Esther Garrel
Acting

Xavier Beauvois

Jacques

Xavier Beauvois
Acting

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing

Michaux

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Acting

Jacques Nolot

Maurice

Jacques Nolot
Acting

Laurent Lacotte

Sadistic customer

No Image
Acting

Pierre Léon

Customer

Pierre Léon
Acting

Jean-Baptiste Verquin

Customer

No Image
Acting

Michel Peteau

Unknown Role

No Image
Acting

Marcelo Teles

Unknown Role

Marcelo Teles
Acting

Guillaume Verdier

Unknown Role

Guillaume Verdier
Production

Justin Taurand

Unknown Role

Justin Taurand
Directing

Damien Odoul

Unknown Role

Damien Odoul
Acting

Paul Moulin

Unknown Role

Paul Moulin
Acting

Henry Lvovsky

Unknown Role

No Image
Acting

Paolo Mattei

Marie-France's son

Paolo Mattei
Acting

Fred Epaud

Unknown Role

Fred Epaud
Production

François Magal

Unknown Role

No Image
Acting

Ghislain de Fonclare

Unknown Role

Ghislain de Fonclare
Acting

Daniel Doebbels

Unknown Role

No Image
Acting

Andre Lamorthe

Unknown Role

No Image
Acting

Chad Gomis

Unknown Role

No Image
Acting

Chloe Rouaud

Unknown Role

No Image
Acting

Louisa Lacroix

Unknown Role

No Image
Acting

Bernard Fonty

Doctor

No Image
Costume & Make-Up

Anaïs Romand

Libertine

Anaïs Romand
Acting

Natalia Tintore

Salon Bourgeois

No Image
Acting

Audrey Perronier

Salon Bourgeois

No Image
Acting

Marie Seznec

Salon Bourgeois

No Image
Acting

Pascale Geille

Salon Bourgeois

Pascale Geille
Directing

Vincent Dieutre

Salon Bourgeois

Vincent Dieutre
Acting

William Pesson

Salon Bourgeois

No Image
Directing

Lucie Borleteau

Salon Bourgeois

Lucie Borleteau
Acting

Antonia Buresi

Salon Bourgeois

Antonia Buresi
Acting

Ewa Kasp

Boulevard Peripherique

Ewa Kasp
Acting

Rufine Duclos

Boulevard Peripherique

No Image
Acting

Jing Wang

Boulevard Peripherique

No Image
Acting

Yann Yang Yang

Boulevard Peripherique

No Image
Writing

Pascale Ferran

(voice)

Pascale Ferran

Similar Movies

Jailhouse Wardress
3.3
1981

Jailhouse Wardress

After the fall of the Third Reich, all Nazi SS officers ran away in Latin American countries. There they created special laboratories to crate beautiful women for satisfaction of their guards' sexual desires. The main warden in this prison is a cruel woman. Their main plan is to revenge for defeat of Nazi's Germany.

Movie
Madame Olga's Pupils
4.9
1981

Madame Olga's Pupils

Madame Olga is the owner of a luxurious brothel in London, England. One of the brothel's new clients, a young man, falls in love with her. He wishes to have more than sexual relationships with the woman.

Movie
Over the Wire
2.4
1996

Over the Wire

Bruce is a telephone lineman who accidentally overhears a murder plot. When 911 informs him that there is nothing that they can do about it, he takes matters into his own hands, and gets entangled in a world of sex and mystery.

Movie
Affair
4.1
2014

Affair

Yoon-hee is one of the best curators who has everything. She meets a celebrated photographer named Hyeong-seok while preparing for an exhibit. She feels attracted towards him at first sight and suggests 100 days of sex games. The Korean version of "Nine and A Half Weeks", only instincts control their love! No rules exist between them.

Movie
The Escapees
4.4
1981

The Escapees

On the run from an asylum for the insane, two girls embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers.

Movie
Lust for Life
7.2
1956

Lust for Life

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.

Movie
9 Songs
5.6
2004

9 Songs

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.

Movie
Before Sunset
7.8
2004

Before Sunset

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more.

Movie
Three Colors: Blue
7.6
1993

Three Colors: Blue

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.

Movie
The 400 Blows
8.0
1959

The 400 Blows

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.

Movie
The 15:17 to Paris
5.4
2018

The 15:17 to Paris

On Aug. 21, 2015, the world watches in stunned silence as the media reports a thwarted terrorist attack on a train that's bound for Paris -- an attempt prevented by three young Americans traveling together through Europe. The heroic and courageous actions of Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone help to save the lives of more than 500 passengers on board.

Movie
Caché
7.0
2005

Caché

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.

Movie
36 Fillette
4.9
1988

36 Fillette

Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent about losing her virginity that night, willing the next, and determined by the third.

Movie
My Own Private Idaho
7.1
1991

My Own Private Idaho

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

Movie
Shaft in Africa
6.0
1973

Shaft in Africa

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Movie
Cléo from 5 to 7
7.7
1962

Cléo from 5 to 7

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

Movie
Monster
7.2
2003

Monster

An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.

Movie
Killing Zoe
6.2
1993

Killing Zoe

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his services, Zed soon finds himself trapped in a situation beyond his control when heroin abuse, poor planning and a call-girl named Zoe all conspire to turn the robbery into a very bloody siege.

Movie
Not Here to Be Loved
6.7
2005

Not Here to Be Loved

Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson...

Movie
Munich
7.1
2005

Munich

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Movie

Recommended Movies

You and the Night
5.9
2013

You and the Night

Around midnight, a young couple and their transvestite maid prepare for an orgy. Their guests will be The Slut, The Star, The Stud and The Teen.

Movie
Ha Ha Ha
6.3
2010

Ha Ha Ha

Over drinks, two friends agree to swap fond memories of their recent trips to the same seaside town. As the stories unfold in flashback, it becomes evident their accounts take place at the same time and with the same people.

Movie
The Secret
6.0
2007

The Secret

Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horrific car crash, the mother wills Sam to live, somehow losing her own life while her spirit enters Sam.

Movie
Lola Pater
6.0
2017

Lola Pater

When his mother dies, Zino decides to look for his father, Farid. But twenty-five years ago, Farid became Lola.

Movie
The Stick
6.7
2020

The Stick

Aava has but one wish: to get a dog. Meanwhile, her parents' marriage is falling apart.

Movie
Emmanuelle: First Contact
5.1
1994

Emmanuelle: First Contact

Emmanuelle makes first contact...when a group of intergalactic travelers arrives, seeking to understand human love and sexuality. Who better to teach them than Emmanuelle, the most sensual woman in the world...and beyond.

Movie
The Sweet Smell of Death
6.0
1994

The Sweet Smell of Death

A notorious sex fiend camouflaged as a playboy real estate agent is out of control. Can he be stopped? The police are in hot pursuit, but time after time the killer rapist slips through the cracks...

Movie
Love Me Not
3.0
2012

Love Me Not

A sweet and daring portrait of blurred sexuality and love complications, this independent feature tells the story of Dennis and Aggie, pals since primary school and roommates for five years. He works in a painting studio while she’s a photographer and aspiring filmmaker. Both are gay, but inseparable as friends. Matters become tense, however, when Dennis announces an arranged marriage and Aggie finds herself increasingly jealous.

Movie
Elles
5.3
2011

Elles

A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.

Movie
L'Argent
7.0
1983

L'Argent

A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life.

Movie
Nocturama
6.4
2016

Nocturama

Some young folks, tired of the society they're living in, plan a bomb attack over Paris before taking shelter for a night in a shopping center.

Movie
The Grand Seduction
6.7
2014

The Grand Seduction

A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.

Movie
Forever Rich
6.5
2021

Forever Rich

This is the story of Richie and his journey to become the greatest rap-artist in the Netherlands. One evening he is violently mugged by a group of teenagers and loses his most prized possession: an expensive watch. When images of the humiliating robbery go viral, Richie's hard-earned reputation is damaged.

Movie
The Duke of Burgundy
6.3
2014

The Duke of Burgundy

Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further.

Movie
The Beautiful Person
6.5
2008

The Beautiful Person

In the wake of her mother's tragic death, French teenager Junie transfers to a different high school. Though Junie lives mostly inside her own head, her beauty and stoicism win her the attention of the entire male student population. Junie begins dating the gentle Otto Cleves, but finds herself intensely drawn to her youthful Italian language teacher, Nemours. When Nemours begins to reciprocate, serious complications ensue.

Movie
The Housemaid
6.4
2010

The Housemaid

Eun-yi is hired as a maid in a mansion owned by a wealthy businessman. He quickly starts seducing his employee who seemingly has little choice but to comply with his sexual advances. Soon the women of the family plot against Eun-yi who must fight an equally devious battle to protect herself.

Movie
The Last Metro
7.2
1980

The Last Metro

In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

Movie
Shortbus
6.2
2006

Shortbus

In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an underground Brooklyn salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.

Movie
Afire
6.8
2023

Afire

Self-important author Leon joins his best friend on a summer holiday near the Baltic Sea to complete his novel. When they arrive, they find their house is already occupied by a carefree woman who challenges Leon to open up. Meanwhile, forest wildfires rage around them and impending disaster looms.

Movie
We Have a Pope
6.8
2011

We Have a Pope

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.

Movie