On Sunday, Anora practically swept the 97th Academy Awards, taking home five Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Director. The movie’s titular character, Anora Mikheeva, is a sex worker who becomes embroiled in the tumultuous familial drama of a Russian oligarch dynasty. Mikey Madison, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Anora, dedicated her win to sex workers everywhere.

“I will continue to support and be an ally,” Madison said. “All of the incredible people, the women that I’ve had the privilege of meeting from that community has been one of the highlights of of this entire incredible experience.”

To commemorate the win, we’ve decided to compile 10 of our favorite films that feature sex workers as prominent characters or outright leads.

1. Belle Du Jour (1967)

• Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
• Directed by: Luis Buñuel

Catherine Deneuve is easily one of New Wave’s most iconic beauties, having cemented her name in Luis Buñuel’s 1967 erotic drama, Belle Du Jour. Fashions and follies of the era aside, Belle’s story of compartmentalizing the woman Deneuve’s Séverine Serizy wants to be with the one society expects her to portray feels all too relevant today. Like many New Wave entries, it’s trippy, indulgent, and hot, even by today’s standards.

2. Pretty Woman (1991)

• Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Ralph Bellamy, Jason Alexander
• Directed by: Gary Marshall

Despite its ubiquity, it’s one of the few sex workers stories in this list that I like to qualify as “safe enough to watch with your mom.” The Gary Marshall directed rom-com romp is an easy watch, like most of his films. I swear Richard Gere is half asleep throughout this movie, but Julia Roberts picks up the slack and then some. There’s little edge to this Cinderella story, but it’s hard not to root for Roberts’ free-spirited call girl in Vivian Ward. There are even some occasional laughs.

3. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

• Starring: Nicholas Cage, Elizabeth Shue, Julian Sands
• Directed by: Mike Figgis

Anyone sleeping on Nicholas Cage’s range needs to drop everything and watch this often overlooked ’90s drama based on the John O’Brien novel of the same name. Recently fired Hollywood screenwriter Ben Sanderson’s life is in shambles, so he’s decided to go out with a bang in Sin City. In his last few days, Sanderson enters into a romantic entanglement with a sex worker named Sera (Elizabeth Shue), when he’s not drinking himself to death. There’s something eerie about this movie, considering O’Brien’s suicide only weeks after signing away the film rights to his novel.

4. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)

• Starring: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors
• Directed by: Colin Higgins

Sometimes, a film can be incredibly entertaining when just about every decision made in its production was the wrong one. This slapdash musical comedy about sex workers is not without its charms, thanks to its leads Burt Reynolds and the irrepressible Dolly Parton. A whorehouse becoming the center of attention in Texas state politics feels incredibly quaint now, but it was at least the backdrop of an endearing romance. Modern tastes may find it occasionally mirthless. I like to describe its comedic sensibilities as “the kind of trash that would make my grandpa laugh.”

5. Boogie Nights (1997)

• Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Heather Graham, Nicole Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson

If it weren’t for this PTA joint, we’d still be calling him Marky Mark. Who would have thought the head of the Funky Bunch was a master thespian? Boogie Nights, in some parts, almost feels like a documentary with how real its characters feel. Every angle of the ’70s and ’80s porn industry are laid bare, and would you believe it, it’s pretty depressing! Still, easily one of PTA’s best. Come for the performances by Julianne Moore and Bill Macy, stay for a prosthetic that would even make Ray Harryhausen blush.

6. Showgirls (1995)

• Starring: Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Robert Davi
• Directed by: Paul Verhoeven

In the post-media literacy world, just about all of the messages in Paul Verhoeven movies are misunderstood. But Showgirls even went over the heads of savvier ’90s audiences, including Roger Ebert. On its face, it’s a tragedy about Las Vegas showgirls, but feels more like a satire of the cutthroat spirit of show business at large. The grody sexual content underlines the film’s thesis much in the same way the ultra-violence in Robocop and Starship Troopers does. Yeah, it overstays its welcome, but I defy you to look away.

7. The Florida Project (2017)

• Starring: Willem Dafoe, Brooklynn Kimberly Prince, Bria Vinaite, Valeria Cotto
• Directed by: Sean Baker

Just reading the synopsis of Baker’s The Florida Project is enough to bum you out for an afternoon. The movie follows the adventures of a young girl living in a low-rent Florida motel with her out-of-work sex worker mother. There’s probably already a mini movie playing in your head right now off that bummer of a premise, and chances are you’ll be able to predict some of the film’s more depressing beats. Despite all that, it’s an impressive piece of filmmaking that would later turn Baker into an Academy Award winning writer and director.

8. Midnight Cowboy (1969)

• Starring: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver
• Directed By: John Schlesinger

Of the mainstream films to garner an X rating, Midnight Cowboy is the only one that won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Jon Voight’s legendary performance as Texan cowboy turned New York gigolo Joe Buck is easily a career best, and also one of the few on this list featuring a male sex worker. Dustin Hoffman’s portrayal as a pathetic and somehow endearing conman isn’t too bad either, and their screen chemistry is hard not to love.

9. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

• Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, William Devane, Shelby Duvall, Keith Carradine
• Directed by: Robert Altman

Films about the American West are often squeaky clean. I’m not talking about subject matter or ham-fisted lessons courtesy of John Wayne: I’m talking set design. McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a romance and revisionist western about the ever present forces of amalgamation and capital centered around a Washington state boomtown. But more importantly, dust, dirt, and grime are in abundance in almost every frame of celluloid. Don’t look for a clean pair of spurs here, you won’t find them. It’s the sort of art direction that I have to believe inspired Deadwood, which alone makes it worth the watch.

10. Pennies From Heaven (1981)

• Starring: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper Vernel Bagneris
• Directed by: Herbert Ross

If The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas feels a little too saccharine, might I suggest Pennies from Heaven? This musical Depression-era drama stars comedy king Steve Martin and Broadway legend Bernadette Peters, who are singing, dancing, and acting their asses off. Peters’ portrayal of schoolteacher turned sex worker Eileen even garnered her a well-earned Golden Globe. Memorable performances aside, Pennies feels like it’s been relegated to footnote status. If there’s a film on this list that deserves a second assessment, it’s this one.