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Best Strip club Movies

Ranked by how strongly each film carries the visual signature of strip club cinema — measured across 1,703 indexed frames from 22 films, against a 404,689-frame catalogue baseline. Not by box office, and not by vote.

Strip club films over-index on tactical vest, neon light and rifle — the objects that make the genre recognisable before a line is spoken.

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    Den of Thieves (2018)

    Christian GudegastDP Terry StaceyIMDb 7.0TMDB 6.9See in full on FrameThrower →

    A gritty L.A crime saga which follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan an impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.

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    Hustlers (2019)

    Lorene ScafariaDP Todd BanhazlIMDb 6.3TMDB 6.5See in full on FrameThrower →

    Inspired by the viral New York Magazine article, "Hustlers" follows a crew of savvy former strip-club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.

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    Keanu (2016)

    Peter AtencioDP Jas SheltonIMDb 6.2TMDB 6.1See in full on FrameThrower →

    Rell's life is changed forever when a cute kitten comes to his door, and he names it Keanu. Unfortunately, one weekend later, Keanu is abducted by persons unknown. Now Rell and his cousin, Clarence, are men on a mission to find Keanu against the odds. Unfortunately, those odds prove to be perilously high as they find Keanu in the care of the ruthless gangster, Cheddar, and he will only part with him for a price. Now for that cute kitten, these two middle class bumblers find themselves neck deep in a dangerous alien world of drugs and gang violence with only their desperate audacity, creativity and sheer dumb luck giving them a chance to survive.

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    Triple 9 (2016)

    John HillcoatDP Nicolas KarakatsanisIMDb 6.3TMDB 6.0See in full on FrameThrower →

    In TRIPLE 9, a crew of dirty cops are blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist. The only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for "officer down". Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, triggering a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge.

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    Sabotage (2014)

    David AyerDP Bruce McCleeryIMDb 5.7TMDB 5.6See in full on FrameThrower →

    An elite DEA team raids the safe house of a drug cartel and hide $10 million in the plumbing. When they go back to retrieve the money it is not there. The team is under investigation for the missing $10 million. Then after a couple months the investigation is lifted. The team trains together again and then celebrates at a strip club. Then one of the team is murdered. He wakes up in his RV on railroad tracks. Then a second team member is nailed to the ceiling. The third team member is gunned down at his remote cabin. There is a female City of Atlanta investigator in charge of the murders. After investigating the cartel angle, the twisted truth comes to light.

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    The Last Boy Scout (1991)

    Tony ScottDP Ward RussellIMDb 7.0TMDB 6.8See in full on FrameThrower →

    Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't kill each other first. But the more they dig, the deeper they become enmeshed in a web of extortion, blackmail and corrupt politics hidden beneath the surface of professional football.

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    Bad Boys (1995)

    Michael BayDP Howard AthertonIMDb 6.8TMDB 6.8See in full on FrameThrower →

    Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

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    Magic Mike (2012)

    Steven SoderberghDP Steven SoderberghIMDb 6.1TMDB 6.2See in full on FrameThrower →

    Mike Lane is a thirty-year old living in Tampa, Florida. By day he works as a roofer while at night, as Magic Mike, he is the star attraction of the Kings of Tampa, a group of male strippers. Secretly he wants out in order to further a projected furniture-making business but his credit rating precludes a bank loan for this despite his considerable savings. One night Adam, a teen-aged work-mate of Mike, follows him to the club and, when one of the acts is unable to go on, he is prevailed upon to strip - becoming a huge hit. However success goes to his head and his foolish actions not only threaten to jeopardize his sister Brooke's relationship with Mike but Mike's ambitions as well.

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    Showgirls (1995)

    Paul VerhoevenDP Jost VacanoIMDb 5.1TMDB 5.6See in full on FrameThrower →

    All alone in the world, Nomi Malone, making her way to Las Vegas, is determined to make a name as a dancer while putting her unspoken past behind her. Her tough, streetwise veneer is not as infallible as she would like, she, as she arrives in Vegas, becoming more cautious in the way she approaches strangers who seem willing to help her purely out of the goodness of their heart. Her talent and connections in combination are only able to get her a job at the Cheetah Club, a strip joint. Her first true friend in Vegas, Molly Abrams, works as the costumer for Goddess, the topless production at the Stardust. It is through Molly that Nomi catches the eye of Goddess' headliner, Cristal Connors. Nomi has a love/hate feeling toward Cristal: she doesn't much like her but wants to become her. Being at the Stardust, Nomi also catches the eye of Cristal's boyfriend, Zack Carey, Stardust's entertainment director. Through these contacts, Nomi is presented opportunity after opportunity to be part of the Stardust/Goddess family. She has to decide how far she will go to achieve her dream. James Smith, a struggling dancer/choreographer who works whatever odd jobs he can get and who is also attracted to Nomi largely for her natural albeit very raw talent, doesn't see Nomi's chosen path as the one she should pursue as he considers Goddess illegitimate: while the Cheetah is what it appears on the surface, Goddess is the Cheetah hiding behind its big name. Through it all, Nomi will discover the good, the bad and the very bad about Vegas life, especially among the rich and beautiful.

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    Enter The Void (2009)

    Gaspar NoéDP Benoît DebieIMDb 7.2TMDB 7.3See in full on FrameThrower →

    Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot him, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void?

What strip club films are made of

How much more often each element appears in a strip club frame than in an average frame from the catalogue. A ratio, not a share — tactical vest is not in most frames, it is simply far more common here than anywhere else.

  • tactical vest7.3×
  • neon light6.7×
  • rifle3.6×
  • neon sign3.5×
  • car seat3.0×
  • sofa2.6×
  • handgun2.5×
  • tank top2.5×

How strip club films are shot

Weaker signals than the objects above, and worth saying so: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy, so these numbers separate strip club from the catalogue far more than they separate it from its neighbours.

  • 86%eye levelvs 69% baseline
  • 48%low keyvs 39% baseline

What breaks the pattern

Domino (2005) is the least typical film here — it carries the least of what the rest of this list is made of. Which is either a failure of the genre label, or the most interesting film on the page.

Method

Every frame in the FrameThrower catalogue is tagged for shot size, lighting, time of day, camera angle, colour and the objects visible in it. This page aggregates those tags across 1,703 frames from 22 films carrying the strip club label, and compares each figure to the same measurement across the whole catalogue (404,689 frames). Films are ranked by how closely they match the theme’s over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series. Only films with at least 20 indexed frames and 500 TMDB votes are listed.

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