A House Is Not a Home is a 1964 American drama film directed by Russell Rouse and written by Steve Jankowski, loosely based on the 1953 autobiography by madam Polly Adler.

Polly Adler is a high class madam, who at a party at her bordello looks back at her life, beginning as a poor and naïve young Polish immigrant who works in a sweatshop.

Having lost her job and lodgings, a friend brings her to a restaurant where she is introduced to Frank Costigan, a bootlegger, who lets her live in a plush apartment he uses for his affair with a married woman.

Soon Polly is the madam of a high-class brothel, paying off police while hosting meetings and brokering cash transactions between political figures and gangsters.

Costigan becomes the top enforcer for mob boss Lucky Luciano and backs Polly's business, which ends up on Park Avenue offering high-class call girls.

When the district attorney begin to move in on Luciano accusing him of involvement with brothels, it transpires the brother of one of the key members of the organisation is shaking down the sex trade.