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Burlesque(2010)

PG-13
| 1h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 1,018 votes)

Ali, a small-town gal with a great voice, leaves a troubled life behind and follows her dreams to Los Angeles. She lands a job as a cocktail waitress at the Burlesque Lounge, a once-majestic theater that houses an inspired musical revue led by Tess, the proprietor. Ali vows to perform there and, with the help of a savvy stage manager and a gender-bending host, she makes the leap from bar to stage, helping restore the club's former glory.

Directed by Steve Antin - With Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Cam Gigandet, Kristen Bell, Julianne Hough, ...
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9 Bullets(2022)

1h 31min | Action, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 38 votes)

A former burlesque dancer turned author discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after he witnesses his parents’ murder. Now on the run from the local crime boss, who happens to be her longtime ex, she makes a desperate attempt to get the boy to safety.

Directed by Gigi Gaston - With Lena Headey, Sam Worthington, Martin Sensmeier, Cam Gigandet, La La Anthony, Marlene Forte, ...

Gypsy(1962)

2h 23min | Comedy, Drama, Music
3.3/5 (with 27 votes)

Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Morgan Brittany, Jack Benny, Harry Shannon, ...
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The Villain(2009)

1h 26min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 59 votes)

With gun-toting rivals on his tail, a daring bank robber takes refuge in the quiet residential street here he grew up and where his mother, Maniette, still lives. An unscrupulous property developer, Korazy, is buying up the neighborhood to turn it into a gleaming new banking district, but to her son's disgust Maniette leads the inhabitants resistance. Her ingenious methods provoke her boy's admiration, but he fights back with sneaky traps and underhand tricks when Maniette tries to force him to do the right thing just once in his life.

Directed by Albert Dupontel - With Albert Dupontel, Bernard Farcy, Bouli Lanners, Catherine Frot, Christine Murillo, Khalid Maadour, ...

Lady of Burlesque(1943)

NR
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Music, Mystery, Romance / Love
2.7/5 (with 15 votes)

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

Directed by William Augustus Wellman - With Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea, Iris Adrian, Charles Dingle, Frank Conroy, Frank Fenton, ...
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Blaze Starr Goes Nudist(1962)

NR
| 1h 15min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Blaze Starr, playing herself, is tired of performing the duties of a star. At a movie theater, she watches an advertisement for the Sunny Palms Lodge, only 30 miles from where she lives. She joins the place and finally can relax and enjoy nature as a newborn nudist. She drives her agent - who is also her fiancé - to distraction by ignoring scheduled "press functions" and spending her weekends at the nudist camp.

Directed by Doris Wishman

Dance, Girl, Dance(1940)

1h 30min | Music, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

Directed by Dorothy Arzner - With Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Barry Norton, Edward Brophy, Emma Dunn, ...
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Ladies of the Chorus(1948)

1h 1min | Music, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with featured dancer Bubbles, Bubbles leaves the show and Peggy takes her place. When Peggy falls in love with wealthy Randy, May fears class differences may lead to misery.

Directed by Phil Karlson - With Marilyn Monroe, Adele Jergens, Rand Brooks, Steven Geray, Dave Barry, Myron Healey, ...

Dancing Lady(1933)

NR
| 1h 32min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.

Directed by Robert Z. Leonard - With Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Robert Benchley, Nelson Eddy, Fred Astaire, ...
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Teaserama(1955)

R
| 1h 9min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

A collection of numerous burlesque acts from the 1950s, including strippers, and cult character Betty Page introducing the acts.

Directed by Irving Klaw - With Bettie Page, Tempest Storm
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The Butterfly Tree(2017)

1h 37min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Evelyn, an ex-burlesque queen, bewitches single dad Al and his teenage son Fin with her zest for life. When father and son discover they are competing for the affections of the same woman, it reopens old wounds over the death of Fin's mother.

With Melissa George
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Bright Lights(1935)

NR
| 1h 22min | Comedy, Music
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

Directed by Busby Berkeley - With Joe E. Brown
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Too Hot to Handle(1960)

NR
| 1h 30min | Crime, Drama
2.2/5 (with 8 votes)

A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club.

Directed by Terence Young - With Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm, Christopher Lee

The Dance of Life(1929)

1h 55min | Romance / Love, Drama, Music
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save money on the road, they get married. Soon their act begins to catch on, and they find themselves booked onto Broadway. They also realize that they actually are in love with each other, but just when things are starting to look up, the comic starts to let success go to his head.

Directed by John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland - With Hal Skelly, Nancy Carroll, Dorothy Revier

The Treat(1998)

1h 34min | Romance / Love, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The lives of four strange prostitutes will change forever when they go to the Mayor's birthday party.

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King of Burlesque(1936)

NR
| 1h 30min | Drama, Music
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona Barrie) who has theatrical aspirations of her own. She marries Baxter, then convinces him to produce a string of "artistic" plays rather than his extravagant musical revues. The plays are flops, and the woman haughtily divorces Baxter. Faithful Alice Faye, who'd gone to London when her ex-beau was married, returns to the penniless Baxter. She and her burlesque buddies team up to pull Baxter out of his rut and put him on top again.

Directed by Sidney Lanfield - With Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Mona Barrie, Arline Judge, Gregory Ratoff, ...
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That's My Gal(1947)

1h 6min | Comedy, Music

Two sharpie promoters (Don Barry and Frank Jenks) put on a show they believe is so bad it will not play more than one day and they therefore will not have to pay the long list of investors,i.e, suckers and buyers. But one of the investors dies intestate and his interests pass to the state. The governor's secretary (Lynne Roberts) engages new talent (the Four Step Brothers, Guadalajara Trio, St. Clair & Vilvoa, Dolores and Don Graham, et al) and a new orchestra (Jan Savitt), in order to make the show successful and a profitable investment for the state. Barry (in another of the vast majority of his films in which he was not billed as Don "Red" Barry), who has fallen in love with the first-billed Roberts, reforms and buys up the surplus stock.

Directed by George Blair - With Lynne Roberts

Guitar Face(2012)

10min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

Aspiring rock star and broken-hearted bartender at a burlesque club takes over the stage and sings his feelings to a perplexed audience. Through his awkward performances, he gets over his breakup and opens up to someone new.

Paroles Paroles(2002)

4min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Linda, Be Good(1947)

NR
| 1h 7min | Music, Comedy

A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.

Directed by Frank McDonald

Too Hot to Handle(1950)

1h 2min | Documentary, Comedy

This is an entire burlesque show, complete with a live band. Five strippers strut their stuff in between bawdy songs and sexy jokes delivered by burlesque singers and comedians.

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Bagdad after Midnite(1954)

1h | Comedy

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Boilesk(1933)

11min | Animation
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An old-fashioned "Burlesk" variety show, mostly animated with a live-action performance of "I'm Playing with Fire" by the Watson Sisters.

Directed by Dave Fleischer

Talent Scout(1937)

1h 2min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

Directed by William Clemens - With Donald Woods

Burlesque: Heart of the Glitter Tribe(2017)

1h 16min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A look into the hard working heart of neo-burlesque.

Directed by Jon Manning

Burlesk Queen(1977)

2h 9min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

To support her paralytic father, Chato works as a utility girl for a burlesque star Virgie Nite. But when Virgie gets drunk on the night of her scheduled show, Chato pitches in for her. And she becomes an instant sensation. Enthused by the initial acceptance of the audience, she defies her father's admonitions and presents herself to the manager. And thus, becoming the new burlesque queen.

The Sex Temple(2015)

1h 21min | Documentary
2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Robin ownes a beautiful old theatre in Norrköping, Sweden. There he lives with his husband. To solve a critical financial situation for the theatre, Robin puts up an equivoque burlesque show. In the middle of rehearsals he gets a phone call from Christian, the owner of a swingers club, who is in desperate need of new facilities because of a terrible fire that ruined his club. Renting out the cellar is a very interesting option for Robin and soon the two new friends start to cooperate while the town of Norrköping is in rage. The dream of Cristian is to make a big swingers party in the whole theatre and sometimes dreams come true.

Directed by Johan Palmgren

Exposed(2013)

1h 17min | Documentary, Comedy
2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Beth B takes us into the 21st century underground and reveals a secret world where cutting-edge performers are taking hold of a taboo art form, Burlesque, and driving it to extremes that most people have never seen. It's satire. It's parody. It's a populist blend of art and entertainment that gives new meaning to the word "transgression." Above all, it's a lot of fun, and it will blow your mind.

Directed by Beth B - With Julie Atlas Muz

Tomb Itmay Concern(1950)

11min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An archaeologist and his assistant discover two female mummies in an Egyptian tomb with a warning in hieroglyphics not to wet them with the water in an urn. When they do, one mummy gets up to hi-jinks, while the other, Princess Itmay, does a burlesque dance.

Cut It Out(1925)

19min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.

Directed by Adrian Brunel
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