The Glass Cage (1996)

Swarthy Paul Yeager arrives in New Orleans and promptly gets a job bartending at La Cage du Verre a show bar where his former girlfriend Jacqueline is a dancer and the moll of its sadistic owner Marko He and Jacqueline smuggle diamonds and drugs with the local police detective in on the take Even though Paul is exCIA hes not undercover he just wants to win Jacqueline back His CIA pals from black ops are on hand hoping to arrest Markos boss Detective Montrachet finds out Pauls past and sets up a double cross Her aims are less clear to get back with Paul to stay with Marko or to run her own scam and scamper away