Inspiration time! Who doesn’t dream of meeting an Edward from Pretty Woman? Whether you want to curl up on the couch with a glass of cabernet, munch popcorn over movie night with sugar sisters, or share a film session with your daddy, here is the ultimate list of sugar films!
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PRETTY WOMAN (1990)
In this sugar film, a prostitute and a wealthy businessman fall for one another.
While on a business trip in L.A., Edward Lewis (Richard Gere), hires the gorgeous Vivian (Julia Roberts) to stay with him for the weekend. As they spend more time together, romance blossoms.
While Vivian is a call girl, not a sugar baby, the film does describe elements of a SD/SB arrangement such as providing a generous allowance, including shopping and expensive dinners in exchange for her company.
This sugar film non-judgy while hinting at the glamorous side of a sugar arrangement.
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Old-school or want to build your library? Buy Pretty Woman on Blue-ray.
GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE (2009)
A popular sugar film among sex workers and now a tv series.
In this film, we see glimpses into the everyday life of Chelsea (Sasha Grey), a high-priced $2,000-an-hour escort in New York City, who offers a girlfriend experience.
The film depicts scenes sugar babies might relate to such as working on her online profile, talking to image consultants, as well as screening and keeping a detailed journal about her clients.
Old-school or want to build your library? Buy The Girlfriend Experience on DVD or Blue-ray.
SHOP GIRL (2005)
Originally a novella. In this sugar film, aspiring artist Mirabelle (Claire Danes) is finding her new life in LA not quite what she was expecting. She is barely keeping up with the minimum payment on her credit card and student loans as a clerk at Saks Fifth Avenue.
She dates underachieving musician Jeremy (Jason Schwartzman) but her life takes a turn when she meets Ray (Steve Martin), a well-to-do customer at the store.
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Old-school or want to build your library? Buy Shopgirl on DVD.
SPREAD (2009)
Meet a male sugar baby in this sugar film.
Nikki (Ashton Kutcher) lives the good life in Hollywood by giving rich, older women plenty of what they want. When Nikki throws a party he meets Heather (Margarita Levieva), a pretty waitress and the two begin a game of sexual one-upmanship.
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Old-school or want to build your library? Buy Spread on DVD.
PRICELESS (HORS DE PRIX) (2006)
A French film featuring Irène (Audrey Tautou) who lives comfortably by being arm candy to wealthy men twice her age.
When her elderly benefactor falls asleep before going out to celebrate her birthday, she slips down to the hotel bar. She mistakes Jean (Gad Elmaleh), a poor bartender, for a potential client and spends the night with him. The next morning, Jean has fallen for her and Irène agrees to teach him the art of fleecing wealthy lovers.
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Old-school or want to build your library? Buy Priceless on DVD.
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (2005)
This sugar film covers the self-improvement quest many Sugar Babies take on.
This film is an adaptation of the best-selling novel, Memoirs of a Geisha. It follows Chiyo as she trains to become a geisha.
We see as she builds a fantasy world for the men she entertains and tries to master culture, seduction, grace, and the art of conversation.
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BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961)
Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn), a New York socialite with high expectations of being cared for by the men who seek her meets her new neighbor, writer Paul Varjak a man in a sugar relationship with an older wealthy woman. The two bond as they experience the city together and Paul dreams of caring for her while Holly debates his ability to meet her standards.
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Sugar Sisters (2016)
Follow three sisters as they enter the world of sugar dating in this provocative documentary. Hannah, Amalia, and Caroline go on the search for a Sugar Daddy to help pay the bills and give them a glamorous lifestyle. Hannah’s exploration into the lucrative life of a sugar baby challenges her morals and feminist ideals as she tries to maintain her personal relationships whilst her satisfying Sugar Daddies. Not easy. The opportunity isn’t all glamour and glitz, as the family soon uncovers.
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TALLADEGA NIGHTS (2006)
A sugar film comedy. Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) is a champion Nascar driver who has it all. His trophy wife, Carly, is all about the money, honey. When Ricky loses his endorsements after an accident, she’s quick to move on, with his best friend!
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"Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You might not marry a girl just because she's pretty, but, my goodness, doesn't it help?" -Gentlemen Prefer Blondes @thedessertsite Share on XGENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953)
The glamourous Lorelai Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and her friend give up everything to find a millionaire husband.
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ETIQUETTE OF A MISTRESS (2015)
This Philippine romantic-drama tackles the lives of five successful and glamorous women who happen to all be mistresses. It shows the discretion needed to deal with a married man.
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
The Great Gatsby follows writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings.
Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). He is drawn into the captivating world of the super-rich.
Old-school or want to build your library? Buy The Great Gatsby on DVD.
Cleopatra (1963)
In 48 B.C., Caesar pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. To win Caesar’s support from her brother, Cleopatra hides herself in a rug, and the Roman is immediately infatuated and declares Cleopatra Egypt’s sole ruler and takes her as his mistress. When Mark Antony, Caesar’s protégé, beholds Cleopatra aboard her elaborate barge at Tarsus some years later, he is smitten and becomes both her lover and military ally.
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Scarface
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Burlesque
Watch on Starz via Amazon Prime Video Channels service.
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CONFESSIONS OF A BRAZILIAN CALLGIRL (Bruna Surfistina)
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SHOW GIRLS (1986)
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THE JOSEPHINE BAKER STORY (1991)
Outrageous, shocking, sensational- Josephine Baker (Lynn Whitfield) was born poor, but achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic and erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success Josephine to Paris where her semi-nude dancing causes an international sensation. Through her marriages to Italian pseudo-count (Ruben Blades) and orchestra leader (David Dukes), to her bond with army officer Sidney Williams (Louis Gosset, Jr.), Josephine’s life is a roller coaster ride of love and rejection from both her lovers and her country.
Old-school or want to build your library? Buy The Josephine Baker Story on DVD.
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (2013)
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Basic Instinct (1992)
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
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HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (1953)
Schatze Page, Loco Dempsey, and Pola are three beautiful models determined to marry a millionaire. They move into a fancy New York City apartment, pool resources, and begin courting the city’s elite. Eventually, they must decide: Is a life of luxury more important to them than finding true love when two of them fall for men who appear to be poor!
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KLUTE (1971)
When small-town police detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) comes to New York to investigate the disappearance of his best friend, his only lead is a letter to prostitute Bree Daniels (Fonda). As these two very different people discover a romantic attraction to each other, despite her commitment to never feel for a man, Klute realizes Daniels is the murderer’s real target. This thriller details the troubled life of a Manhattan prostitute stalked by one of her tricks.
Buy Klute on DVD.
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Trilogy (2015)
Flying to impromptu meetings, gifts, financial and career support this is sugar in all aspects!
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY – Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), an English Lit major is asked to interview Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), a wealthy businessman. The two hit it off and the awkward young woman is immediately turned on by his power and control.
FIFTY SHADES DARKER – This sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey adapts the second installment in E.L. James’ best-selling trilogy of novels. Steele and Grey’s attempt to build a more trusting relationship.
FIFTY SHADES FREED – In the third and final film the Anastasia and Christian are eager to begin their lives as husband and wife, and Christian even purchases a lavish home to make a fresh start. However, they soon find themselves facing both new temptations and threats from the past.
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Coco Before Chanel (2009)
Born with the name Gabrielle (Audrey Tautou), she and her older sister Adrienne live in an orphanage where they learned to sew. They stay together into their young adulthood, working as seamstresses during the day, and performing in a cabaret at night. When Adrienne runs off with a wealthy suitor, Coco must go it alone. She has an independent streak and bluntly speaks her mind, stretches the truth or lies to get what she wants, and doesn’t believe in love or a man in her life. She believes security can be had by getting to Paris and performing in the famous Alcazar. En route, she begins a symbiotic relationship of sorts with Étienne Balsan, a wealthy stable owner who she met in Moulins. Through Blasan, Coco will meet two other people that play important parts in her life. One is actress Emilienne d’Alençon, who, while still adhering to the style of the day, admires certain aspects of Coco’s own individual style, especially her simple straw hats. The other is English coal magnate Arthur Capel – nicknamed Boy – who may make Coco change her mind about love. He gives her the money to open her own Parisian studio, and the film ends with the tweed suit-clad Chanel of the popular imagination.
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THE NEW ROMANTIC (2018)
Blake (Jessica Barden) a struggling college newspaper sex columnist. In order to escape her looming post-graduation fate that includes student debt and zero romantic prospects, she becomes a sugar baby after meeting one at a liquor store (Camila Mendes). She writes about the experience. in the hopes of winning a journalism award with a generous cash prize. she sets out on a quest to figure out if society is right to judge these woman and if her own self worth comes with a price.
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SUGAR DADDIES (LifeTime 2014)
In this sugar
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SUGAR BABIES (LifeTime 2015)
Katie Woods just transferred from community college to Montlake University for their renowned art history program, but campus life is proving more expensive than Katie anticipated. In class, she meets Tessa and is introduced to Tessa’s high-class, expensive lifestyle… all paid for by her older, and richer, boyfriend Leo.
Katie is skeptical about the relationships Tessa and her friends pursue– until Katie gets the opportunity of a lifetime to study in Florence, but realizes there is no way she can afford to go. She agrees to Tessa’s suggestion to join her on a double date and, against her better instincts, finds herself falling for Giles, a British businessman who is handsome, successful, and able to write a check to make Katie’s dreams of Florence come true. But Katie soon realizes that having a Sugar Daddy comes at its own price.
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CASINO (1995)
Las Vegas 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob’s multi-million dollar casino operation. Ginger, a ‘working girl’ marries a casino boss.
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You forgot about GiGi (1958)! It’s my favorite musical 💗
I’ll defiantly add on next update! Thanks babe