Saksalainen Wim Wenders voitti Paris, Texasilla Cannesin Kultaisen palmun ja nousi hetkeksi ykkösohjaajien kastiin. Wendersiä auttoi näytelmäkirjailija Sam Shepardin vahva käsis, jossa neljä vuotta kadoksissa ollut mies ilmestyy aavikolta ihmisten ilmoille. Harry Dean Stanton esittää hienosti miestä, joka etsii haikeissa tunnelmissa poikaansa ja vaimoaan. Ry Cooderin soundtrackista tuli klassikko.
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore films in the pits of Los Angeles.
Paris, 1982. Franck and Serge are police investigators in charge of making a good catch in the Parisian porn industry. In order to infiltrate the mafia, they take over a peep show in Pigalle riddled with debts. In attempt to jump start the business, they begin to produce short porn films.
A woman and her daughter lives in Oostdijk, a village near Amsterdam. One night when the mother is on her way home, she is killed in a car accident in the street they live in.
A teacher whose true vocation is that of a bullfighter and, since bullfights are frowned upon in Catalonia, he is having a hard time working on what he likes. The crisis will force him to work in a theater performing a pornographic act to replace his partner's partner, whose social security problems have forced him to leave his job.
Documentary look at the 1996-97 effort of the dancers and support staff at a San Francisco peep show, The Lusty Lady, to unionize. Angered by arbitrary and race-based wage policies, customers' surreptitious video cameras, and no paid sick days or holidays, the dancers get help from the Service Employees International local and enter protracted bargaining with the union-busting law firm that management hires. We see the women work, sort out their demands, and go through the difficulties of bargaining. The narrator is Julia Query, a dancer and stand-up comedian who is reluctant to tell her mother, a physician who works with prostitutes, that she strips.
The most revealing report about the girls from the peep show. The girls from the peep show can't get enough of their power of seduction even after work. They never miss an opportunity to drop their covers...