a girl wants to dance but ends up in a burlesque

Ali leaves behind a troubled life and follows her dreams to Los Angeles, where she lands a job as a cocktail waitress at the Burlesque Lounge, a once-majestic theater that houses an inspired musical revue. Vowing to perform there, she makes the leap from bar to stage, helping restore the club's former glory.

A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.

Penny Slot, a stripper from Las Vegas, tries to become a star dancer on a dance television show.

It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown talent - one that will take her all the way from the comedy clubs of Greenwich Village to a spot on Johnny Carson’s couch.

Crystal is the lead dancer in her own Burlesque show, but she has other plans for her troupe on this tour. While visiting Crystal’s brother, the Burlesque girls start to be picked off one by one, and its anyone’s guess who will survive.

On a dark night, a select crowd gathers to watch a burlesque act. But this is no ordinary audience and she is no ordinary dancer.

Clea, a young dancer, dreams of joining a prestigious dance school. But the competition is tough, and while her friend Amirah uses her charms to win her place, Clea injures herself during one of her auditions and has to give up her dream Now a stripteaser in a cabaret in Pigalle, the young woman loses her innocence, discovering a world of sex and perversion. But she also learns to make the best of her assets to stand out, and never loses sight of her goal: to finally live out her passion for dance. Exhibited before the eyes of her customers and indoctrinated into debauchery by colleagues even less ferocious than herself, tangled up in the club's back rooms and then submitted to the charms of a dominating female teacher, Cela is going to take a deep dive into the world of Parisian nightlife, only to bound back even stronger and less inhibited than before.

Fatima is a Toronto-born modern muslim girl raised in a family of mixed-cultures and mixed messages about what her role in the world is. She gets sucked into the empowering world of a sexy Burlesque cabaret, and unleashes her brave and confident Burlesque identity, “Babylon”. Then she must reconcile her old self with her new.