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Strip club movie summaries

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The Blue Angel (1930 – remade 1959)
directed by Josef von Sternberg
A professor falls in love with the beautiful Lola-Lola at the night club. He fritters away his savings on her and is forced to take a position as a clown in Lola's cabaret to pay the bills. His growing insecurities about Lola's profession as a "shared woman" eventually consume him with lust and jealousy. He dies in remorse humiliated clenching the desk at which he once taught.

Gypsy (1962)
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
With Natalie Wood as Gypsy and Rosalind Russell as Mama, this is the original movie version of the original Broadway musical based on the life of Gypsy Rose Lee. Not really a strip club movie but it is a classic movie about a stripper and you've gotta admit, Natalie Wood was one fabulous babe back in the day.

Blaze (1989)
Directed by Ron Shelton
A mainstream look at love, sex and politics. Based on Blaze Starr's 1974 memoir, this movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant Governor of Louisiana in the '40s and '50s, brother of assassinated governor and U.S. Senator Huey P. Long and uncle of longtime U.S. Senator Russell Long. According to the novel and the film, Earl Long was a strip club afficianado who fell in love with burlesque star Blaze Starr after meeting her in 1959 in a Bourbon Street club in New Orleans. When they set up housekeeping together, Earl's political opponents use this to attack him and his controversial political program, which includes civil rights for blacks in the 1960s. Blaze is played by Lolita Davidovich and Paul Newman plays the governor. Blaze Starr herself makes a cameo appearance.

Exotica (1994)
Directed by Atom Egoyan
This Canadian film, set in a Toronto strip club named Exotica, explores the dark side of strip club relationships, stripper/customer and stripper/boyfriend. The storyline is a bit convoluted and complex, with interwoven plot lines, flashbacks and flash-forwards. Although this movie is not a porno by any means, it did win the AVN award for Best Alternative Adult Film in 1996.

Showgirls (1995)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
With a VIP lapdance scene that was scandalous at the time, this is a really poorly written movie about a girl with a secret who runs away to Vegas and claws her way up from Cheetah's strip club stage to casino showroom stardom. Some good dancing though, and lots of tits.

Striptease (1996)
Directed by Andrew Bergman
Demi Moore plays a stripper and single mother who gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman (Burt Reynolds) takes a fancy to her. Not a great movie but Demi Moore strips, which fulfilled the fantasies of the men of a certain generation.

The Players Club (1998)
Directed by Ice Cube
A decent movie about stripper politics, working in the strip club. and the tensions between the “good” and the “dirty” strippers. Bernie Mac, Jamie Foxx, Ice Cube, strippers … you get the idea.

Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000)
Directed by Michael Radford
This is a decent movie about the unglamorous behind-the-scenes lives of a group of strippers working in an LA club. Since it was developed through an improvisational workshop, the storyline isn't all neat and tidy, but then neither is real life right? The movie features some serious mainstream actresses playing strippers including Daryl Hannah, Sandra Oh and Jennifer Tilly.

The Center of the World (2001)
Directed by Wayne Wang
A geek on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire makes an "arrangement" with his ATF to get her to accompany him to Vegas. The film explores the lessons that a RIL learns when he lucks into enough money to live his fantasies.

Yellow (2006)
Directed by Alfredo De Villa
This film is full of cliches but has some excellent dancing that makes it worth watching. Roselyn Sanchez plays a classically-trained Puerto Rican dancer who travels to New York to pursue the dreams her father/teacher has instilled in her, after he commits suicide and her boyfriend betrays her. Struggling to get by, she takes a job dancing in a strip club where she instantly becomes a star, befriends her mentally unhinged but sweet neighbor (Bill Duke), becomes involved with a doctor/customer (D B Sweeny) who wants to rescue her, all the while going on dance auditions. In the end she's faced with deciding whether she should continue to pursue her dance dreams or whether she should go with her doctor/customer/lover to pursue his dreams in Australia. No prizes for guessing which path she chooses.

Zombie Strippers (2008)
Directed by Jay Lee
Jenna Jameson stars in this absolutely awful film. It isn't even good enough to be called campy. Jenna's one of the strippers working in a club where all the strippers have become zombies, as the result of a government experiment that has escaped from the lab. Becoming a zombie has made her into a much hotter stripper but, look out, the goverment black ops zombie hunters are coming.

Strip Club King: The Story Of Joe Redner (2008)
Directed by Shelby McIntyre
This is a documentary about Joe Redner, the owner of the Mons Venus strip club in Tampa. Mons is probably the most famous nude club in the world, even if Joe does say so himself. It's famous for its full-contact, nude lap dances. Joe himslf is infamous for his rable-rousing style of dealing with local government. This documentary focuses on Joe's life and antics, with lots of interviews with his family and others who know him. While not a great work of art by any means, and without much stripper action, this film is still decent, well worth watching, especially if you don't already know Joe's story.

The Casino Job (2009)
Director: Christopher Robin Hood
A vengeful stripper schemes to take a slimy casino owner for all he's worth

Meet Monica Velour (2011)
Directed by Keith Bearden
Sex in the City's Kim Cattrall plays Monica Velour, a past-her-prime porn star now working as a feature stripper in a podunk club in Indiana. The story focuses on an awkward teen who idolizes Monica Velour through her movies. He travels to meet her and an unexpected friendship follows as the young man gets a glimpse inside her current life as a single mom struggling to make ends meet.

Magic Mike (2012)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
If you're a girl who likes watching hot guys strip down and dance, you'll really like this movie. Channing Tatum has got some serious moves. If you're a homophobe, i.e. you're one of those guys who uses the words "fag" or "so gay" a lot in everyday conversation, you won't like this movie at all. Otherwise, it's a one star movie, a cliched story about a 30-somthing guy who finally comes to the realization that there's more to life than picking up drunk sluts in bars. Steven Soderbergh directed so I hate to say that this movie is a total loss but, given that the beefcake is totally wasted on me, I have to say that this thing is pretty damn boring.