Movies: Burlesque

A horror anthology film starring the U.K.'s own Tromette, Kitty Kiss, more commonly known as Nurse Meow....

As a live woman performs a striptease, she's cheered on by an audience of small cartoon men. Some of them pop in the excitement as she brings down the house....

In this musical comedy set to 1950's rock 'n' roll, three women are working in a burlesque club. They are more than content with their jobs but things start to change when the management starts to make demands. Their sleazy manager, who seems to have...

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944....

A group of male office workers, bored with their daily routine, decide to stop in at the local burlesque house....

Stripteasers, baggy-pants comedians, exotic dancers, comedy sketches-- all part of a great tribute to a living art, hosted by Ann Corio, the queen of Burlesque....

Bob Spit, a comic book character, lives in a post-apocalyptic desert inside the mind of his creator, the legendary Brazilian cartoonist Angeli. When Angeli decides to kill off Bob, the old punk leaves this wasteland and faces his creator....

The film opens on a dressing room set with a mirror, dressing table, and chair center stage and a folded dressing screen on the left. A smiling, dark-haired woman enters through the door on stage right, unbuttoning a full-length polka-dot costume. As...

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 ...

Striptease and burlesque action at the Follies Theatre, 337 S. Main Street, Los Angeles....

Dirty Martini and Tigger!, stars of the New York underground scene, reveal some of the secrets of their provocative and remonstrative forms of artistic expression in New York’s Off-Off-Broadway. Meanwhile, they will help us to understand from their e...

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

A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters....

Legendary performer Sherry Britton presents song, dance (choreographed by Wakefield Poole) and comedy. The way burlesque used to be....

The stage of a vaudeville theatre. A lady in evening costume is performing on a trapeze. Two Rubes are seated in a box. The lady begins to disrobe, and here the fun commences. As she removes her garments one by one and throws them at our rural friend...

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

The young Beto ventures to the Brazilian countryside in search of a collection of rare drawings. There he meets Samir, the collector, and his family ruined by the demise of the cocoa plantations. The journey and the encounter will irrevocably change ...

Struggling to make ends meet in their day-to-day life, five young men decide to take to the stage to get their finances to align with their needs....

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

A burlesque stage show at the Follies Theater in Los Angeles, California, featuring the original Hubba-Hubba Girl, Evelyn West....