The Players Club (1998)

Actors: Faizon Love (actor), Ice Cube (producer), Dick Anthony Williams (actor), Greg McDonald (actor), John Amos (actor), Bernie Mac (actor), Charles Q. Murphy (actor), Michael Clarke Duncan (actor), Jamie Foxx (actor), Terrence Howard (actor), Ice Cube (actor), Master P (actor), Tommy 'Tiny' Lister (actor), Ice Cube (director), Ice Cube (writer),

Plot: Diana, a young mom working at a shoe store meets two strippers, Tricks and Ronnie. They tell her that she should work at The Playa's Club for big money. The woman accepts and soon introduces her cousin into the club. Then she finds out that her cousin is doing housecalls which Tricks bribed her to do. One day Diana returns to her house after almost being raped by an obsessed fan and finds her cousin sleeping with her ex-boyfriend. She kicks her cousin out and starts dating Blue, a DJ at the club. They go out one night and Diana's cousin calls asking her to pick her up from a bachelor party. Diana refuses and soon after her cousin is raped. Now she has only one option, to put Tricks in her place.

Keywords: catfight, dominatrix, organized-crime, paraplegic, police-harassment, racial-slur, rape, rocket-launcher, spanking, spit-in-the-face
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Make the money. Don't let it make you. Closed Legs Dont Get Fed...... Sometimes you're the player. Sometimes you're played. Friday, we got down. Here, we get down and dirty.

Quotes:

Tricks: Y'all ain't shit. Your mama's ain't shit and your babies ain't gonna be shit. Fuck you with a... a sick dick.

[while beating up Ronnie]::Diamond: It's bitches like you who make it harder for women like me.

Diamond: Make the money, don't let it make you.

Blue: I just don't understand exactly why you're charging me twenty percent interest on the money that you loaned me, when you already taking thirty percent out of my check.::Dollar Bill: Welcome to the strippin' game, partner. Blue, you ain't nothin'. All you do is spin records, that's all you do. Who'd you think you is, DJ Quick? Kid Kapri? Oh, then you must be Jimmie Walker. Blue you ain't nut-zin! You don't deserve nut-zin, you don't get nut-zin. You get what I give you. I got a contract betwinx me and you that say you do what I tell you to do. Therefore, shut the fuck, don't say nothin to me, don't even look at me. Tell you what, you better get on up outta my office and outta my face, before you get swole.::Blue: Hey, Bill, I...::Dollar Bill: Hay for horses, hay for horses...::Blue: I didn't try to come up here and cheat you out of...::Dollar Bill: Blue, let me tell you somethin'. Blue, if I raise up, gonna be trouble... trouble, so go walk it off.

Dollar Bill: Blue, if have to raise out this chair gon' be trouble, trouble!::Blue: Dollar, I ain't tryin' to...::Dollar Bill: Now git out my face, before you git swole!

Blue: Comin' to the stage now is a woman who's been in the game since Kunta Kente was big ballin' and shot callin'. They say tricks are for kids and she got four of them mother fuckers! Let's give it up for 'Trix'!

[to Ronnie, after she lost a fight with Diamond]::Li'l Man: Did you at least pinch the bitch?

Dollar Bill: Who tha fuck you think you talkin' to like that? You can't just come in here like that! You ain't got no warrant! You got nothin! Ya ugly mothafucka, you know good and well Freeman, you wrong man. All the pussy I done hooked yo ass up with! You better wear your bullet proof vest all day, all mothafuckin' day. you, too, ya fat mothafucka! Let me see ya again! Magilla gorilla, magilla gorilla, god dammit! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!

Reggie: Um, tell her... we realize..."no means no".

[Diamond and Ronnie have a big fight in the locker rooms. Diamond knees Ronnie in the groin]::Ronnie: No balls here, bitch.::Diamond: Could've fooled me!

Cafe Hostess (1940)

Actors: Frank Austin (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Don Beddoe (actor), Bruce Bennett (actor), James Blaine (actor), James Craig (actor), Preston Foster (actor), Douglas Fowley (actor), Mike Lally (actor), William Lally (actor), Eddie Laughton (actor), George Lloyd (actor), Arthur Loft (actor), George McKay (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor),

Plot: Jo (Ann Dvorak), a "percentage girl" at the notorious Club 46, is in despair. She can see no way out of the dreary and sordid routine of entertaining customers - called drinking and dancing in 1940 - and, at a signal from piano player Eddie Morgan (Douglas Fowley), rolling them for their money. Eddie, besides being brutal to her and spending all her money, is also carrying on an affair with another girl. Jo's only friend is Annie (Wynne Gibson), a former actress but now a drink-sodden derelict. Annie keeps to herself the knowledge that it was Eddie who threw the knife that killed a petty racketeer who was too attentive to Jo. Sailor Dan Walters (Preston Foster) and two of his pals arrive from a cruise and his good nature delights Joe, but at a wink from Eddie, Jo attempts to steal his money. Dan swallows his disillusionment and returns to the cafe, and he and Jo enjoy a day-long picnic together. She accepts his marriage proposal and go to an up-state town where he has a job waiting. Eddie does not accept this turn events any too well, and sets a trap for Dan when he comes after Jo. When he arrives, in an attempt to save his life, Jo denounces and ridicules him and he leaves angrily. He is net by Annie, who tells him of the set-up. Gathering his pals, Dan returns to the cafe and starts a brawl.

Keywords: 1930s, alcoholic, b-girl, b-movie, barroom-brawl, bartender, beer, brawl, brutality, cafe
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: "Check Your Hat, Mister!" (They''ll take your shirt before the night is over!) "I'm Here To Show You A Good Time, Big Boy!" (And 'roll' you for your money!) "Let's Have Another Dance, Handsome!" (And look out for a knife in the back!) "How About Another Little Drink, Honey?" (It's probably loaded!) THE ONLY COMMAND THIS SAILOR OBEYED...was the COMMAND OF LOVE, HONOR AND O-BABY! (original print ad) A DAUGHTER OF THE "B-GIRL" BUSINESS!...FORCED THERE BY CRIME...AND RELEASED BY LOVE (original print ad-all caps) Where is the man who pays and pays ... or else! Meet The Gals Of "The Club 46"... But hold on to your watch and wallet!