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Male prostitute - The hustler in cinema

Male prostitute - Films with a hustler as a main character

In recent years, a host of young American actors (such as Lukas Haas, Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Joseph Gordon-Levitt), following the lead of River Phoenix, have taken roles as hustlers in independent movies as a way of establishing their acting credentials.

• My Hustler (USA: 1967, by Andy Warhol and Chuck Wein, with Paul America)
• Flesh (USA: 1968, by Paul Morrissey with Joe Dallesandro) - Joe Dallesandro hustles to buy dope for himself and his wife
• Midnight Cowboy (USA: 1969, by John Schlesinger with Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman) - an unlikely friendship between hustler Voight and junky Hoffman on the streets of New York ends in a failed attempt to get away and start a new life. Originally rated-X.
• El Lugar Sin Limites (Mexico: 1977, by Arturo Ripstein)
• Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (USA: 1977, TV, by John Erman with Leigh McCloskey) - sequel to Dawn : Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
• El Diputado (The Deputy) (Spain: 1978, by Eloy de la Iglesia; in Spanish) - the secret police set up to blackmail a politician with a teendage hustler, but this latter falls for the man he is supposed to betray
• American Gigolo (USA: 1980, by Paul Schrader) - a high-class gigolo (played by Richard Gere is framed for a murder he didn't commit.
• Cruising (USA: 1980, by William Friedkin from the novel by Gerald Walker, with Al Pacino) - a straight policeman goes undercover to investigate murders in the New Yok gay S/M community. Although not a hustler per se, Pacino's character borrows heavily from the hustler genre.
• The Wounded Man (L'homme blessé) (France: 1982, by Patrice Chéreau with Jean-Hugues Anglade) - a kid falls for a sociopathic hustler; winner of a César Award for Best Direction
• Forty Deuce (USA: 1982, by Paul Morrissey with Kevin Bacon and Orson Bean) - conniving hustler Bacon (who won an Obie for the original 1981 off-off Broadway production) tries to cover-up the o-d death of another kid
• A Boy Like Many Others (Un Ragazzo come tanti) (Italy: 1983, by Gianni Minello)
• Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song (Philippines: 1987, by Nick Deocampo)
• The Everlasting Secret Family (Australia: 1988, by Michael Thornhill, with Mark Lee) -homosexuality and prostitution amidst a secret brotherhood
• Macho Dancer (Philippines: 1988, by Lino Brocka) - story about boy Pol who goes to Manila to support his family and works as a macho dancer with friend and mentor Noel, who is looking for his sister
• Cop (USA: 1988, by James B. Harris, based on the novel by James Ellroy, with James Woods)
• Street Kid (Germany: 1990, by Peter Kern, In German with English subtitles) - story of a young hustler in Dusseldorf, Axel Glitter
• Film (Fill 'em) (Canada: 1991, by Sky Gilbert) - story of a male hustler and his roommate
• My Own Private Idaho (USA: 1991, by Gus Van Sant with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves)- about two hustlers in search of roots, love and meaning in and around Portland, Oregon
• I Don't Kiss [J'embrasse pas] (France: 1991, André Téchiné with Manuel Blanc, Philippe Noiret and Emmanuelle Béart) - about a boy from the provinces who tries to make it in Paris, but ends up as a hustler on the street. Béart plays the female prostitute he falls for; Noiret plays the caring john.
• Via Appia (Germany: 1991, by Jochen Hick) - a German air steward wakes up to find a note telling him he's HIV positive. He returns to Rio to find the hustler who gave it to him. Docu-style scenes of Rio's nightlife, bars and clubs, etc.
• Being at Home with Claude (Canada: 1992, by Jean Beaudin, with Jean-François Pichette and Roy Dupuis; in French) - a police interrogation of male hustler Yves for the murder of the student Claude he fell in love with
• The Living End (USA: 1992, by Gregg Araki, with Craig Glimore and Mike Dytri) - two HIV positive young men -- Jon's a film student, Luke's a street hustler -- go on the road in a final blow out
• The Blue Hour (Die Blaue Stunde) (Germany/Switzerland: 1992, by Marcel Gisler, with Andreas Herder and Dina Liepzig) - Theo, a male hustler, falls for Maria, the girl next door
• Dafydd (Britain: 1993, TV: BBC by Ceri Sherlock with Richard Harrington) - Welsh boy/hustler goes to Amsterdam and meets a music teacher
• Pretty Boy (Smukke dreng) (Denmark: 1993, by Carsten Sønder, with Christian Tafdrup and Benedicte W. Madsen) - 13-year-old runaway Nick takes up with a group of hustlers lead by tomboyish Rene
• Slight Fever of a 20-Year-Old (Hatachi No Binetsu) (Japan: 1993, by Ryosuke Hasiguchi, In Japanese with English subtitles) - four middle-class teenagers in Japan - two boys who hustle and their best female friends - come up on trouble when one of the boys tells the other he loves him
• Postcards from America (UK: 1994, by Steve McLean, with Olmo Tighe, Michael Tighe, James Lyons, and Michael Imperioli) - three chapters in David Wojnarowicz's life: childhood abuse from his father in 60s New Jersey, teenager hustling on the streets of NY, adult alone on the road in New Mexico
• Super 8 1/2 (Canada: 1994, by Bruce LaBruce) - a semi-autobiographical film about a porn star's attempted comeback
• Midnight Dancers (Philippines: 1994, by Mel Chionglo, In Tagalog with English subtitles) - three brothers in down and out Manila, working as "Macho Dancers" in a gay bar, fall in and out of a variety of adventures
• The Basketball Diaries (USA: 1995, by Scott Kalvert with Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg) - based on the (autobiographical) book by Jim Carroll, the story of a boy who gets hooked on smack
• Marble Ass (Dupe Od Mramora) (Serbia: 1995, by Zelimir Zilnik) - independent film about transvestite prostitutes trying to make ends meet in Serbia
• The Toilers and the Wayfarers (USA: 1995, by Keith Froelich; executive producer Marc Huestis; with Matt Klemp, Ralf Schrig, Andrew Woodhouse, Jerome Samuels and Joan Wheeler, released in 1997; in English and German with English subtitles) - in ultraconservative New Ulm, Minnesota, 16 year-old Matt Klemp spurns the advances of friend Andrew Woodhouse, but later decides with another boy to join him in Minneapolis, where they become hustlers
• Hustler White (USA: 1996, by Rick Castro and Bruce LaBruce with Tony Ward) - a writer desperately searches for the hustler "Monti" after seeing him on Santa Monica boulevard
• Tattoo Boy (USA: 1996, by Larry Turner with C.J. Barkus and Amanda Tirey) - a "semi-autobiographical, no-budget portrayal" of teenage hustlers Arizona (Amanda Tirey) and Sam (C.J. Barkus) in Dayton, Ohio
• Private Shows (USA: 1996, by Blaine Hopkins and Stephen Winter, video, 58 min)
• The Unveiling (USA: 1996, by Rodney Evans)
• L'Amour est à réinventer (France: 1996) - ten short films about life in France in the time of AIDS; one of the films ("Tapin du soir" by Anne Fontaine, who has more recently directed "Nettoyage à sec") deals with an unsure Porte Dauphine street hustler who's looking for someone to talk to
• Johns (USA: 1997, by Scott Silvers with Lukas Haas and David Arquette) - the night before Christmas, Donner and John try to make enough money to spend the holiday (and John's birthday) in a nice hotel
• Star Maps (USA: 1997, by Miguel Arleta with Douglas Spain) - second generation Mexican immigrant Carlos returns to LA to make money
• Hard (USA: 1998, by John Huckert)
• Speedway Junky (USA: 1999, by Nickolas Perry, with Jonathan Taylor Thomas)
• L.I.E. (USA: 2000, by Michael Cuesta with Paul Dano and Billy Kay)-a Long Island teenager discovers his best friend is a hustler
• Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler (USA: 2002, by Ian McCrudden)
• AKA (UK: 2002, by Duncan Roy)
• 200 American (USA: 2003, by Richard LeMay) - New York business man falls for Australian hustler

• A Son (Un fils) (France: 2003, by Amal Bedjaoui, in French) - a hustler of North-African descent in France
• Garden (Gan) (Israel: 2003, by Ruthie Shatz and Adi Barash, in Hebrew and Arabic) - two young gay prostitutes in Tel Aviv
• Good Boys (Yeladim Tovim) (Israel: 2004, by Yair Hochner, in Hebrew) - two Tel Aviv rent boys
• Eighteen (Canada: 2004, by Richard Bell)
• Sugar (Canada: 2004, by John Palmer) - coming of age story with a street hustler
• My Hustler Boyfriend (video program at Newfest 2005, including a short with that title by Peter Pizzi)
• Mysterious Skin (USA: 2004, Gregg Araki, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - based on Scott Heim's book listed above
• Dirty Little Sins (USA: 2005)
• The Wedding Date (USA: 2005, Claire Kilner, with Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney) - woman hires male escort to pose as her boyfriend
• Transamerica (USA: 2005, Duncan Tucker, with Felicity Huffman and Kevin Zegers) - a pre-opperative male to female transsexual discovers she has a son (Zegers) who is hustling in New York
• Breakfast on Pluto (UK: 2005, Neil Jordan, with Cillian Murphy) - based on the novel by Patrick McCabe, the story of a transvestite (Murphy) who flees Ireland for London during the 1970s and becomes a prostitute

Male prostitute - Other films that include hustlers

• The Cheat (La triche) (France: 1984, by Yannick Bellon with Victor Lanoux and Xavier Deluc)
• JFK (US: 1991, by Oliver Stone) - Kevin Bacon plays a gay hustler associated with Oswald
• By The Dawn's Early Light (Denmark: 1993, by Knud Vesterskov, narrated by David Wojnarowicz)
• L.A. Confidential (US: 1997, by Curtis Hanson) - 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 Nights (USA: 1997, by Paul Thomas Anderson, with Mark Wahlberg and Burt Reynolds)
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (USA: 1997, by Clint Eastwood, with Kevin Spacey and John Cusack) - based on John Berendt's best-selling book, a prominent Savannah citizen (Spacey) shoots to death his lover
• Nettoyage à sec (France: 1997, by Anne Fontaine, with Charles Berling and Miou Miou) - dark story of a drifter and TV singer who works his way into the lives of a pent-up heterosexual couple; while not about a hustler per se, this film borrows heavily from the genre
• Happy Together (Hong Kong: 1997, by Wong Kar-wai, with Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai; in Mardarin, Cantonese and Spanish) - the brash and irresponsable Ho Po-Wing (Chang) makes his money from the street

Male prostitute - Documentary films

• Portrait of Jason (US: 1967, by Shirley Clarke) - interview with African-American gay hustler Jason Holliday.
• Maybe I Can Give You Sex? Part I (Philippines/Germany: 1992, by Jurgen Bruning) - parts I and II of this tape are a collaboration between directors Rune Layumas in Manila and Jurgen Bruning in Germany. The videos look at gender roles in the Philippines and examine the lives of macho dancers, bar boys, and their customers
• Maybe I Can Give You Sex? Part II (Philippines/Germany: 1992, by Rune Layumas)
• A Kind of Family (Canada: 1992, by Andrew Koster) - profile of the relationship and family life of a gay city counselor and his straight, street-kid, hustler, drug-abusing, HIV+ foster son
• Boys from Brazil (1993, by John-Paul Davidson) - documentary on Brazilian transvestite prostitutes
• Not Angels But Angels (Czechoslovakia: 1994, by Wiktor Grodecki; produced by Miro Vostiar) - documentary about prostitution in Prague
• 101 Rent Boys (USA: 2000 by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato) - shot in motel rooms on Santa Monica Boulevard

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "The hustler in cinema", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki