Movies like Whores from the North (1993)
The best movies like Whores from the North (1993) are Exotica (1994), Hustlers (2019) and Anora (2024). If Whores from the North hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPretty Woman (1990)7.4/10 from 9,308 votes
- NewestRisqué (2025)Released 2025
Exotica (1994)
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHustlers (2019)
A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnora (2024)
A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisComrades, Almost a Love Story (1996)
Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Night at the Roxbury (1998)
Despite being well into adulthood, brothers Doug and Steve Butabi still live at home and work in the flower shop owned by their dad. They exist only to hit on women at discos, though they're routinely unsuccessful until a chance run-in with Richard Grieco gets them inside the swank Roxbury club. Mistaken for high rollers, they meet their dream women, Vivica and Cambi, and resolve to open a club of their own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Harvey Girls (1946)
On a train trip out west to become a mail-order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle-stop.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRisqué (2025)
Fired from a strip club, a vengeful dancer masterminds a high-stakes heist with fellow strippers to take down the corrupt boss and the men who underestimate them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRoad House (1989)
The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he's more than capable – busting the heads of troublemakers and turning the roadhouse into a jumping hot spot. But Dalton's romance with the gorgeous Dr. Clay puts him on the bad side of cutthroat local big shot Brad Wesley.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShanghai Blues (1984)
In 1937 Shanghai, a soldier and a young woman have an awkward meet-cute in darkness under a bridge as they seek refuge during a bomb raid. Ten years later, the soldier, now a burgeoning songwriter and tuba player in a marching band, is back in town desperately searching for his would-be soulmate. As fate would have it, they end up living in the same building, unbeknownst to each other.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMikey and Nicky (1976)
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMake Your Move (2013)
A pair of star-crossed dancers in New York find themselves at the center of a bitter rivalry between their brothers' underground dance clubs.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisHuman Traffic (1999)
For Jip, Lulu, Koop, Nina, and Moff, the dead-end jobs they endure during the week just kill the time until Friday night. That's when they cut very loose and get on the rollercoaster ride that takes them right through to Monday morning.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Joker is Wild (1957)
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAs Tears Go By (1988)
Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPretty Woman (1990)
Vivian is a carefree, streetwise diamond in the rough when she meets sophisticated billionaire Edward in a chance encounter that turns into a week-long business arrangement. But Vivian's energetic spirit challenges Edward's no-nonsense approach to life, and soon they are teaching each other – and falling in love!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDue West: Our Sex Journey (2012)
Set in contemporary Hong Kong, several young people are searching for romance and struggling to learn the difference between lust and love in an adventure that takes them to the mainland where pleasure is much more readily available.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Players Club (1998)
Single mother Diana struggles to provide for her child and pay for her college education. When she meets two dancers from a nearby gentlemen's club, Diana's convinced there's fast money to be made stripping.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaint Jack (1979)
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTuff Turf (1985)
The new guy in a Los Angeles high school, Morgan, does some singing and fights hotshot Nick over disco dancer Frankie.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Whores from the North?
The closest matches to Whores from the North are Exotica (1994), Hustlers (2019) and Anora (2024). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Whores from the North?
Start with Exotica (1994), the closest match to Whores from the North.
What is the highest-rated movie like Whores from the North?
Pretty Woman (1990), rated 7.4/10 by 9,308 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Whores from the North?
Risqué (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Whores from the North chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Whores from the North, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.