Burlesque Movies

Two sharpie promoters 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...

The Crazy Horse cabaret has been a Parisian night hotspot since 1951. The cabaret is known for celebrating the beauty, personality and pure talent of...

After years on the margins of a ballet company because of her skin color, a young Black dancer finally takes the lead role. As her body is exoticized...

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...

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...

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

Filmed record of a burlesque performance.

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down...

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...

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

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

Vic Vicers is the master-of-ceremonies of a burlesque-variety show with a carnival setting. A slapstick comedy sequence, featuring low-rent comics...

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

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

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

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...

Based on the well-known poem by Jayme Caetano Braun, Bochincho, O Filme tells the story of an old man who, together with business partners, evokes...

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...

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...

Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New...