Best Dance movies of 1985

Actors : Terrence Mann, Michael Blevins, Yamil Borges, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.

Actors : Gregory Hines, Helen Mirren, Jerzy Skolimowski, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to...

Actors : Ian Michael Giatti, Kristi Somers, Richard Blade, Biff Yeager,
Directors : Alan Metter,

Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular ...

Actors : Sam Neill, Meryl Streep, André Maranne, Charles Dance,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.

Actors : Kim Richards, James Spader, Matt Clark, Paul Mones,
Directors : Fritz Kiersch,

The new kid in school must battle a gang of street toughs after stealing the gang leader's girl.

Actors : G.W. Bailey, Marilu Henner, Tom Berenger, Andy Griffith,
Directors : Hugh Wilson,

While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Rex O'Herlihan, The Singing Cowboy, finds himself in color and ...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Oliver Tobias, Gaye Brown, Christopher Cazenove,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Mata Hari is a beautiful Dutch-born dancer, working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as ...

Actors : Arkadi Nasyrov, Natalya Gundareva, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Evgeniy Evstigneev,
Directors : Karen Shakhnazarov,

A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as step became unpopular he lost everything. ...

Actors : John Scott Clough, Don Franklin, Tamara Mark, Tracy Silver,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

Eight young people from Ohio who are dancers, come to New York, to compete in a major talent competition. But when they get there, they learn that they have to wait some time before they ...

Actors : Mario Van Peebles, Eriq La Salle, Melvin Plowden, Richie Abanes,
Directors : Joel Silberg,

An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.

Actors : Gabrielle Lazure, Alan Arkin, James Woods, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

The story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.

Actors : Marina Vlady, Marie Laforêt, Philippe Léotard, Miguel Ángel Solá,
Directors : Fernando E. Solanas,

Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.

Actors : Tom Sierchio, Jim Soriero, Josh Marcano, Nelson Vasquez,
Directors : Ken Handler,

A gang of boys under the Brooklyn Bridge are united by their common interest in break dancing. Some work as pizza delivery boys, hence they call themselves the "Delivery Boys". They form a ...

Actors : Henri Szeps, Adam Fernance, Barbara Stephens, Queenie Ashton,
Directors : Bruce Best,

Juliet Cavanagh-Fforbes (Barbara Stephens) is a young Australian, single mother ballet teacher. Fed up with dating jocks more interested in themselves and sport... See full synopsis »

Actors : Fabrice Eberhard, Béatrice Camurat, Jean-Claude de Goros, Karim Allaoui,
Directors : Roger Hanin,

This movie starts with three men arrested for disorderly conduct at a dance. After they are released, they take a train trip, vent their continuing anger on a young Arab, and kill the man ...

Actors : Russell Wong, Anita Mui, On Kei Chan, Chi Wing Chan,
Directors : Dennis Yu,

Entertainment manager James Wong loses his lead singer Jannie Fong when she breaks her contract. Angered, he turns his efforts to making a young dancer named Russell, who has no singing ...

Actors : Kouadou Brou, Albertine N'Guessan, Sidiki Bakaba, Eugénie Cissé-Roland,
Directors : Désiré Ecaré,

At a festival, a chorus of women sing and dance as two stories unfold. In a village, a young women with a jealous husband gives him something to be jealous about when his younger brother visits from the city.

Actors : Titi Dwijayati, Piet Burnama, Alwi A.S., Zainal Abidin,
Directors : Maman Firmansyah,

1985. The street craze for break-dancing sweeps the world and reaches Indonesia, where young people seem to practice it everywhere all the time. Mr. Gondo hates it and forbids his daughter ...

Actors : Barbara Dziekan, Maria Czubasiewicz, Krzysztof Gosztyla, Hanna Mikuc,
Directors : Stanislaw Rózewicz,

A psychological portrait of a young Polish theatre actress, searching for her own way in life. She plays a mechanical dancer in a play "Dance of the Marionette", a complete opposite of her ...

Actors : Mauri Kuosmanen, Ilmari Saarelainen, Jaakko Kallio, Kristiina Elstelä,
Directors : Visa Mäkinen,

Bachelors Pekka Puupää and Pätkä are going to a dance. There they meet Justiina Pönttö. Pekka and Justiina hit it off and get married as soon as possible.