The "Retinal Fetish" club in Strange Days features live rock shows, performance art, sadomasochism games, mosh pits, crazy lights, smoke machines, and of course an upstairs lounge where villains and thugs hang out.
The Matrix: The club where Trinity first meets Neo face to face in the original, and the Merovingian's Hel Club in the sequels.
The "House of Pain" in Blade II appeared to be a popular hangout for the young, beautiful Vampire crowd.
The "End of Line Club" from TRON: Legacy.
A good non-casino club is in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me, which features Bond meeting-and practically talking shop with-Soviet agent Maj. No where Bond first utters his famous, trope-naming greeting.
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One of the first scenes of the film series is a casino in 1962's Dr.
Cool clubs exist all over the James Bond franchise, with many also being casinos.
In Gotham City, this is the case of the Iceberg Lounge which Batman foe The Penguin runs as a legit front to cover his illegal activities.
Adam Warren's Dirty Pair has an interesting justification for nightclubs populated solely by attractive people they have "hotness scanners" that compare incomers' bodies to a stored "aesthetic profile of body somatotype and facial symmetry", and only permit entrance to those that are "sufficiently hot".
The owner may be one of the worst assholes ever, and Ramona's 7th Evil Ex, but his club was still a nice place, with video games, music, stage for concerts, and a planned, but scrapped by the author, skate park.
The club/bar where the criminal element makes its home in The Crow is an excellent example, with far more people than a run-down dive like that place would expect, and much better live acts.though that could be explained by its being the home base of the city's criminal kingpin.