Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows FanStore News Showtimes

Whores' Glory

Play trailer Poster for Whores' Glory Released Apr 27, 2012 1h 50m Documentary Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter
88% Tomatometer 25 Reviews 74% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
Prostitutes from around the world discuss their profession.
Whores' Glory

What to Know

Critics Consensus

Whore's Glory is a candid exploration of exploitative work, where women share their dreams and lives for a glimpse of the brighter side.

Read Critics Reviews

Critics Reviews

View All (25) Critics Reviews
Ashley McAllister Bitch Media The women interviewed in Whore's Glory are presented discussing personal experiences, frustrations, and hopes with honesty and humor, and it's these stories that make this documentary definitely worth your time Jan 12, 2021 Full Review Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post "Whores' Glory" takes a deadpan, nonjudgmental approach, which generally works well, even if the fly-on-the-wall technique makes clear that what attracts flies usually stinks. Rated: 3/4 Jul 6, 2012 Full Review Mark Feeney Boston Globe Glawogger has the good sense mostly to stay out of the way and let the material speak for itself. Rated: 2.5/4 Jun 14, 2012 Full Review Vadim Rizov Filmmaker Magazine Glawogger’s final feature journeys through Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico, finding different degrees of (attempted) dignity in labor and all-out exploitation while remaining counterintuitively gorgeous to look at. Jan 24, 2023 Full Review Mattie Lucas From the Front Row Shines a light in the darkness on the seedy, gritty, shocking world where sex is little more than a business. Rated: 3/4 Aug 6, 2019 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Glawogger's latest slice of global miserableness may not be eyeopening, but it's honest. Jul 9, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View All (56) audience reviews
Audience Member Blurring the lines between what is culturally accepted and morally appropriate, this doc can really give some insight into the lives of women who see and fill a need. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Dont watch this one with your girlfriend. This is an observational doco of 3rd world whore houses. Quite graphical and crude but somehow had me drawn in the whole way by the blunt dialogue and raw images. If your into a good cinema verite style doco, watch this! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member in between the interesting and usual information a movie like this gives it diverges into artsy music driven montages to give us a feel for the settings. I would have much preferred the doc to be less of a cinematographers showoff reel. Still there is a good amount of interesting stuff, a sometimes depressing view into a surprisingly common piece of other cultures. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member God is indeed a jealous God - He cannot bear to see That we had rather not with Him But with each other play. - Emily Dickinson Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member 8/10 Strong docu. Fucked up Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member This film is probably one of the grittiest, glaringly horrific, and offensive documentaries to deal with the world of sex workers, worldwide. The subjects depicted in these three thirld world countries are open and opininated about their work and the sexual politics associated with their profession. It's so painfully aware of its own degradation and accuracy, shot beautifully and yet so ugly in its content. Director Michael Glawogger travelled to Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico to examine the attitudes of its citizens in regards to how women are treated as commodities. The women see their profession as an ends to a mean, and their only hope, while men see them as objects, and the interchangeable dialogue between the two reflects a dissonance of opinion on the subject of gender politics. The use of music, cinematography, and interviews interspersed between the action, really detail the inhumane conditions of the sex industry and the horrible standards set by a begrudging society. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews
Whores' Glory

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW

Cast & Crew

Show Less Cast & Crew Show More Cast & Crew
Life in a Day 79% 79% Life in a Day Watchlist Trashed 87% 77% Trashed Watchlist Act of God 63% 20% Act of God Watchlist The Road: A Story of Life and Death 88% % The Road: A Story of Life and Death Watchlist CodeGirl 60% 72% CodeGirl Watchlist Discover more movies and TV shows. View More

Movie Info

Synopsis Prostitutes from around the world discuss their profession.
Director
Michael Glawogger
Distributor
Kino Lorber
Production Co
Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) [at], Arte, Lotus Film, Living Films, Quinte Film, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
German
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 27, 2012, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 4, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$30.6K
Runtime
1h 50m