Paris de 1899. Christian, um jovem com sonhos de ser poeta, desafia o seu pai quando passa a frequentar o submundo da cidade, precisamente o tradicional clube parisiense Moulin Rouge. Neste glamoroso refúgio de sexo e drogas, o inocente poeta conhece e apaixona-se por Satine, a grande estrela do clube e a cortesã mais famosa da cidade, com quem vive um trágico caso de amor.

In medieval Japan, a woman and his children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.

Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.

In early 20th century, Charles Swann, a young and wealthy dandy, spends most of his time hanging out with the old nobility, notably the Duke and Duchess of Guermantes. He is madly in love with a pretty demi-mondaine, Odette de Crécy. Idle, Swann surrenders complacently to the torments of jealousy. After hours of suffering, he manages to spend a night with Odette. In the morning, he believes that ultimately, this one is "not his type". However, we find him, many years later, alongside Odette who, now his wife, gave him a daughter. In the company of Baron de Charlus, brother of the Duchess of Guermantes, he wonders about the failure of his sentimental life, so far removed from this absolute he dreamed of.

Verónica Franco, desprezada pelo homem que amava devido a um casamento por conveniência, decide tornar-se uma cortesã, uma "acompanhante de luxo". Em meio ao ambiente barroco de dissolução de costumes, ela torna-se uma das mais famosas e dotadas cortesãs de Veneza até ser presa pela Inquisição, acusada de bruxaria.

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.

Gaston Lachaille, o solteiro mais cobiçado de Paris, se apaixona por Gigi, uma jovem irrequieta e que recebe aulas de etiqueta para se tornar uma dama da aristocracia. Roteiro baseado em romance de Colette.

Nos tempos da décima oitava dinastia do Egito, Sinuhe (Edmund Purdom), um pobre órfão, torna-se um brilhante médico. Junto a seu amigo Horemheb (Victor Mature) ele é apontado para servir ao novo Faraó. Vivendo na corte, Sinuhe começa a perceber coincidências entre acontecimentos que marcaram as dinastias faraônicas e tragédias que marcaram sua própria vida. Cada vez mais absorto pelas intrigas da corte, ele passa a conhecer bizarros segredos de seus governantes e muitas respostas para perguntas que ele carregou consigo durante toda a sua vida.

After his wealthy family prohibits him from marrying the woman he is in love with, Devdas Mukherjee's life spirals further and further out of control as he takes up alcohol and a life of vice to numb the pain.

At the end of the 19th century, Shanghai is divided into several foreign concessions. In the British concession, a number of luxurious “flower houses” are reserved for the male elite of the city. Since Chinese dignitaries are not allowed to frequent brothels, these establishments are the only ones that these men can visit. They form a self-contained world, with its own rites, traditions and even its own language. The men don’t only visit the houses to frequent the courtesans but also to dine, smoke opium, play mahjong and relax. The women working there are known as the “flowers of Shanghai”.

Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds solace and company in a handsome young sculptor she saves from starvation. But the aspiring artist soon finds love in the arms of another woman, Hortense, leaving Bette a bitter spinster. Bette plots to take revenge on the family who turned her away and stole her only love. With the help of famed courtesan Jenny Cadine she slowly destroys the lives of those who have scorned her.

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.

Camille é uma cortesã em Paris. Apaixona-se profundamente por um jovem promissor, Armand Duval. Quando o pai de Armand lhe implora para não arruinar a sua esperança de uma carreira e posição ao casar-se com Armand, ela concorda e deixa o seu amante. No entanto, quando a pobreza e a doença terminal a dominam, Camille descobre que Armand não perdeu o seu amor por ela.

A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.

Told mostly in flashbacks, the film tells the story of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, one of the greatest and probably most famous courtesans of the twentieth century. While not showing her childhood, first marriage to Winston Churchill's son, or most of her affairs, we do get to see her affair and eventual marriage to Broadway producer Leland Hayward, and then her marriage to politician Averell Harriman, with whom she had an affair while both were married to others in World War II. We also see her as ambassador to France during her last years, and her death in 1997. While some (mostly her lovers) adored her, others (mostly her son and her husbands' children) hated her.

The star courtesan is a sought-after title. These two women will do anything to get it.

Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.

In the 16th century, when Prince Salim falls in love with a beautiful courtesan named Anarkali, Emperor Akbar's disapproval leads to a battle between father and son.