Burlesque

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows burlesque

poster The Beau Brummels
The Beau Brummels
9mn - Comedy, Music
Vaudeville team Shaw & Lee sing songs and tell jokes in hilarious deadpan.
poster King of Dollars
King of Dollars
2mn - Fantasy
A magician shows tricks with money.
poster The Cowboy and the Lady
The Cowboy and the Lady
(3.3/5)
91mn - Comedy, Romance
A sheltered socialite masquerades as a maid and falls for an honest cowboy who doesn't know her true identity, creating a romantic dilemma when her privileged world threatens their love.
poster All Dolled Up
All Dolled Up
(3.0/5)
50mn - Comedy, Drama
The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklace belonging to a rich unmarried woman named Eva Bandy. Later, she manages via a misunderstanding to prev…
poster La Parisienne
La Parisienne
(3.2/5)
86mn - Comedy
The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.
poster The Inexhaustible Barrel
The Inexhaustible Barrel
5mn - Comedy
Wonderful trick film about two young girls and their magical barrel. Live animals and superb clothing keep jumping miraculously out of the barrel.
poster Midnight
Midnight
(2.6/5)
7mn - Animation, Music
It's a straight musical involving a barbershop quartet of alley cats and some dogs summoned from the pound to quiet them to little success. The animation and visual gags are simple and old fashioned, but …
poster The Dying Swan
The Dying Swan
(3.6/5)
49mn - Drama
After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death genuinel…
poster The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
(3/5)
94mn - Comedy, Drama
In this dazzling Pre-Code romantic caper, the mysterious and elegant Fay Cheyney infiltrates London's glittering high society as a wealthy widow, charming the aristocracy while secretly plotting to steal …
poster Four Star Playhouse
Four Star Playhouse
(3.8/5)
Nonemn - Drama, Comedy
A curious reporter seeks the truth from a 100-year-old woman about her life in the Old West. While her family insists she lived a virtuous and charming life, her memories reveal a passionate and scandalou…
poster Chrysanthemums
Chrysanthemums
(3.7/5)
30mn - Drama
A tragic story of a ballerina.
poster Bowery at Midnight
Bowery at Midnight
(2.7/5)
61mn - Comedy, Crime, Horror
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a s…
poster The Marvellous Wreath
The Marvellous Wreath
3mn - Fantasy
A magician performs tricks with a marvelous wreath.
poster The World and Its Woman
The World and Its Woman
70mn - Drama
A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. When the 1917 revolution overthrows the czar's government, the pair attempts to cross the icy steppes and…
poster The Merry Skeleton
The Merry Skeleton
(3.2/5)
1mn - Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.
poster Second Chorus
Second Chorus
(2.9/5)
84mn - Comedy, Romance, Music
Two rival trumpeters in a college band sabotage each other at every turn while competing for the affections of their beautiful new manager Ellen Miller. When both men pursue spots in Artie Shaw's prestigi…
poster A Tale of Two Bunnies
A Tale of Two Bunnies
(2.7/5)
0mn - Short, Drama
Two small-town girls arrive in Chicago to find fame and fortune. Ruby wants to be a fashion designer; Holly simply wants a city salary to help out her family. Both girls' heads are turned by the chance to…
poster Broadway Love
Broadway Love
(2.9/5)
60mn - Romance
A small-town girl who goes to New York hoping to become a Broadway star falls in with a fast crowd.
poster Hypocrites
Hypocrites
(3.3/5)
54mn - Drama
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.
poster The Charmer
The Charmer
4mn - Fantasy
A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman.
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