Movies: Burlesque

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 Chri...

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 ...

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 ...

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down the Amazon rainforest to create charcoal for pig iron production used primarily in the automobile ind...

A stripper/fortune teller uses a magical Haitian amulet to keep young, and in so doing forces others to kill for her....

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 ac...

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

A documentary on three families struggling to survive in Brazil....

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A high board fence is shown covered with theatrical posters. The one in the center shows the head and shoulders of a pretty girl. An old farmer and his wife are strolling along, the old gentleman being a little ahead. He looks at the picture of the g...

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

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

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944....

Tomás and Paco craft low-budget short films. They are good friends and they both share the same dream of becoming filmmakers. Tomás, being a 24 year-old loser, starts worrying about his uncertain future since he doesn’t have a job, he never went to c...

Inside a fruit themed burlesque bar, time and space take a backseat to poetry and proverb....

Jean-Jacques asks Gustav Martinsson to shadow his cheating wife....

Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World’s Fair ...

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In an effort to save their near bankrupt cinema George and Georgina re-animate an army of dead strippers and plan to stage the worlds first undead burlesque show....

A husband and wife, seeking to renew the excitement in their relationship, enjoy a weekend away from each other. A WEEKEND WITH VIRGINIA (48-24-34) BELL: the husband spends his time watching exotic dancer Virginia Bell. ANNE HOWE (46-24-34) AND THE B...