Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "burlesque-theater"

1. Last Night in Soho (2021)

R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Aspiring fashion designer Eloise is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s, where she encounters dazzling wannabe singer Sandie. But the glamour is not as it seems, and the dreams of the past crack and splinter into something darker.

Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg

Votes: 176,927

2. Papillon (I) (2017)

R | 133 min | Adventure, Biography, Crime

Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter, Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.

Director: Michael Noer | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Damijan Oklopdzic, Christopher Fairbank, Jason Ryan

Votes: 86,195 | Gross: $2.34M

3. Tin Man (2007– )

TV-PG | 90 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's classic "The Wizard of Oz."

Stars: Zooey Deschanel, Alan Cumming, Neal McDonough, Kathleen Robertson

Votes: 14,533

4. Upperworld (1934)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A rich man (Warren William) starts an affair with a showgirl (Ginger Rogers), and when the girl's manager (J. Carrol Naish), finds out, he decides to blackmail him.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Warren William, Mary Astor, Ginger Rogers, Andy Devine

Votes: 659

5. Liberty Heights (1999)

R | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Baltimore, Fall 1954: Schools implement the new integration law. Ben finds the "colored" girl in his class cute - upsetting his Jewish mom and granny. Ben talks to her while his brother looks for his WASP dream girl.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, Ben Foster

Votes: 7,045 | Gross: $3.73M

6. Lady of Burlesque (1943)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery

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 he strikes again.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Michael O'Shea, J. Edward Bromberg, Iris Adrian

Votes: 2,779

7. Dancing Lady (1933)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson

Votes: 2,664

8. Ladies of the Chorus (1948)

Approved | 61 min | Musical, Romance

A chorus girl falls in love with a wealthy young man, but their relationship is jeopardized by her mother's fears about the reaction of his family.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Adele Jergens, Marilyn Monroe, Rand Brooks, Nana Bryant

Votes: 1,582

9. Sex Madness (1934)

Not Rated | 57 min | Drama

This exploitation film belongs to the social guidance genre of quasi-documentary narratives, which exhort young adults to follow particular moral and social prescriptions related to sexuality and drug use.

Director: Dwain Esper | Stars: Vivian McGill, Rose Tapley, Al Rigali, Mark Daniels

Votes: 990

10. How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)

Approved | 89 min | Comedy

Two girls on the lam hide out in a college fraternity.

Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn

Votes: 276

11. Footsteps in the Dark (1941)

Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A respected investment advisor has a double life as a mystery writer and becomes involved in the real murder of a shady client.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Hale

Votes: 1,422

12. The Clown (1953)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little Dink idolizes him and faithfully believes ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Red Skelton, Jane Greer, Tim Considine, Loring Smith

Votes: 527

13. The Hole Idea (1955)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A scientist invents the portable hole, only to have a thief steal his samples to go on a crime spree.

Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Robert C. Bruce

Votes: 422

14. The First Bad Man (1955)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The first Texas bad man come running into town a million years B.C.

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Ritter, Tex Avery, June Foray

Votes: 451

15. Eadie Was a Lady (1945)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Edithea Alden, a college girl from a wealthy family, is working at night as dancer in a nightclub. When the leading lady Rose is loosing the customers attractiong, Editha gets her job, but ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Ann Miller, Joe Besser, William Wright, Jeff Donnell

Votes: 42

16. Flirtation (1934)

Approved | 58 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A precode romantic melodrama about a burlesque dancer and a country boy who must pretend to be married.

Director: Leo Birinsky | Stars: Jeanette Loff, Ben Alexander, Arthur Tracy, Emma Dunn

Votes: 73

17. Burlesque in Harlem (1949)

56 min | Comedy, Music

A filming of a burlesque act in 1954 Harlem, complete with singers, baggy-pants comics and "exotic" dancers.

Director: William Alexander | Stars: Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham, George Wiltshire, Vivian Harris, Dick Barrow

Votes: 39

18. Talent Scout (1937)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

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

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Donald Woods, Jeanne Madden, Fred Lawrence, Rosalind Marquis

Votes: 110

19. Wanted -- A Master (1936)

Passed | 10 min | Short

A dog living in a junk yard finds out that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o' clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the deadline.

Directors: Arthur J. Ornitz, Gunther von Fritsch | Stars: Pete Smith, Horace B. Carpenter, Dave O'Brien

Votes: 139

20. Backstage Follies (1948)

19 min | Comedy, Short

Faced with a police raid ordered by Errol's wife, turned Reform League president, the manager of the local burleque theatre sends one of the girls over to get friendly with Errol.

Director: Hal Yates | Stars: Leon Errol, Dorothy Granger, Wally Brown, Betty Underwood

Votes: 12

21. Mike Hammer (1958–1959)
Episode: A Grave Undertaking (1958)

26 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Mike is hired to retrieve incriminating letters from a blackmailer, but soon learns that the package with $50,000 was really the ransom money to payoff kidnappers. When the woman who ... See full summary »

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Darren McGavin, Peggy Converse, Fay Spain, Rebecca Welles

Votes: 29

22. The Lone Wolf (1954–1955)
Episode: The Hunt (1954)

Adventure

Lanyard leaves Mexico but once he arrives back the US he is immediately arrested by the police and put into hospital quarantine. To Lanyards shock he discovers he's been in contact with people who are dying of cholera.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Louis Hayward, Eddie Garr, Dan Riss, Patricia Dane

23. Aquarius (2015–2016)
Episode: Home Is Where You're Happy (2015)

TV-14 | 43 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Hodiak investigates Art Gladner's death through his late wife Lucille.

Director: Michael Zinberg | Stars: David Duchovny, Grey Damon, Gethin Anthony, Emma Dumont

Votes: 440

24. Aquarius (2015–2016)
Episode: A Change Is Gonna Come (2015)

TV-14 | 43 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A South Central murder investigation ratchets up tension with the Black Panthers; Emma goes MIA; Hodiak loses control... and Shafe comes to the rescue.

Director: Michael Zinberg | Stars: David Duchovny, Grey Damon, Gethin Anthony, Emma Dumont

Votes: 424

25. Aquarius (2015–2016)
Episode: Sick City (2015)

TV-14 | 43 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Hodiak turns to two people from his past -- a priest and a prostitute -- for help.

Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: David Duchovny, Grey Damon, Gethin Anthony, Emma Dumont

Votes: 380

26. Aquarius (2015–2016)
Episode: Why? (2015)

TV-14 | 42 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Charmain's first ride-along is cut short when her fellow officers are shot.

Director: Jonas Pate | Stars: David Duchovny, Grey Damon, Gethin Anthony, Emma Dumont

Votes: 383

27. Aquarius (2015–2016)
Episode: (Please Let Me Love You And) It Won't Be Wrong (2015)

TV-14 | 43 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The Manson family feels Emma's absence as they make a documentary.

Director: Lukas Ettlin | Stars: David Duchovny, Grey Damon, Gethin Anthony, Emma Dumont

Votes: 349