Knee Dancing

Confessions of a Young American Housewife

1974 · ★ 5.8

An attractive but conservative mid-30's housewife stays at the house of her sexually open daughter and soon becomes involved in her daughter's swinger lifestyle.

Montenegro

1981 · ★ 6.2

Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, and returns home more dangerous than before. The film also tells parallel stories of Marilyn's daughter becoming a junior homemaker as the young immigrant practices her striptease.

Cougars, Inc.

2011 · ★ 4.8

When Sam learns his mother cannot afford to send him to another school after he is kicked out, he and his friends start their own escort service for mature women to pay for his tuition.

Bucket List

2018 · ★ 5.7

'Bucket List' is a story of a woman trapped in the confines of her own choices and her journey to self discovery. Madhura Sane is a 40 y.o housewife (by choice) belonging to a quintessential middle/upper middle class family in Pune. One fine day, through a chance encounter, Madhura comes face to face with a choice that could potentially change her whole life. And that choice involves...a Bucket List.

Deceptions

1985 · ★ 6.7

Twin sisters -- one a European jet-setter, the other an unhappy New Jersey housewife -- impulsively decide to swap lives and identities for a week, with unforseen results.

Moonlighting Wives

1966 · ★ 5.1

An ambitious suburban housewife, tired of forever being in debt, sets up an independent stenography business. Finding that her clients are more interested in the women than the dictation, she revamps it into a discreet and highly profitable prostitution ring made up of neighbourhood wives.

Room

2005 · ★ 4.3

A Texan begins a cross-country journey in hope of finding the empty loft she keeps seeing in visions.

Slik vil vi ha det

1955 · ★ 8

Radio personality Rolf Kirkvaag, playing himself, is appointed to design an apartment to be given out as the main prize in a lottery. He is in over his head, but is assisted housewife consultant Eva Lund. The third in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern housewife".

Anna H. - Geliebte, Ehefrau und Hure

2000 · ★ 4.9

A woman who has grown estranged from her husband and is despairing of her life as a housewife takes a job as a sexworker after some initial hesitation. Since she performs her services in disguise, her anonymity is assured; but when her own husband suddenly seeks her services, the full extent of their marital misery is laid bare.

Madhouse Mecca

2018 · ★ 3.6

When an underwhelmed housewife meets a mischievous exotic dancer with a taste for trouble, an unlikely friendship is formed that will change their lives forever.

Fleur

A New York housewife flees America and her husband of 30 years to reinvent herself in Paris as Fleur, an upscale escort and dominatrix carving out her own power and identity. But as her past collides with her new life, the question isn’t just whether she’ll return… but whether she can.

Sara

1993 · ★ 6

Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.