American Call-Girl
Sex work in the United States has largely moved off street corners and onto phones and websites, and this National Geographic film follows the women running that business end to end. Escorts, madams, and clients describe how the trade actually operates now: screening services, online ads, cash flow, and the constant risk of arrest or violence that no amount of technology removes. The film treats it as a business story first, tracking pricing, advertising, and the logistics of staying independent versus working for an agency, while also sitting with the personal costs the women describe on camera. Law enforcement and industry observers add context on how prostitution law in America has and hasn't adapted to an internet-based trade. Rather than moralizing, the film lets its subjects explain their own choices and constraints, from why some prefer the autonomy of working solo to why others rely on a madam for safety and steady clients. It closes with the trade's central contradiction still unresolved: legally invisible, but economically enormous.