Movies: Burlesque

Several burlesque performances from the days burlesque was actually risqué ánd tantalising....

Strip Queen Lili St. Cyr magically undresses in the Burlesque Novelty Short: Cinderella’s Love Lesson! (SWV)...

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...

Scene 23, Slow pan The wind whistles over the dykes of the Willebroek Canal. Armand sighs. The viewer should feel goose bumps under their thick sweater. Make it clear that at this moment, Armand is craving a cup of Borain coffee. Scene 456, Armand's ...

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....

A stripper (June Havoc) discovers a professor (Joe E. Brown) spends summer teaching Shakespeare and winter as a burlesque comic....

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...

Filmed record of a burlesque performance....

A greedy burlesque club owner hires a mad scientist to resurrect his most profitable girl, but this she-borg refuses to be an object of men's desires....

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

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....

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....

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A young girl fresh out of reform school who is singing in a burlesque show is offered a scholarship to a famous music camp by the camp's owner. She must overcome the suspicions of the other students in order to prove herself....

In this revealing documentary, burlesque star Immodesty Blaize examines the world of British burlesque and the resurgence in its popularity....

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 intest...

An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama....

A filmed burlesque show, staged at the El Rey Theater in Oakland, CA....

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In 1970, Kuster Beaton, a former silent-film star, gives an interview looking back over his career. A journalist asks him about his legendary power : an alleged super-speed that enabled him to shoot his films without special effects....