Best Dance movies of 1960s

The Night They Raided Minsky's(1968)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A naive Amish young woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.



Orgy of the Dead(1965)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

John and his girlfriend Shirley go in search of a cemetary in order to inspire John for writing his next horror story. After they crash the car, they wander into the graveyard and encounter...



Isadora(1968)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...



Can-Can(1960)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Montmartre, 1896: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their female...



Welcome to Hard Times(1967)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.



Ensign Pulver(1964)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Life becomes so harried after Ensign Pulver's prank, he and the Captain are swept off deck during a storm, ending up on a tropical island, a group of ship wrecked nurses, dancing natives and 1 very big case of appendicitis.



Seven Thieves(1960)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A motley crew of professional thieves plans the robbery of a Monte Carlo casino vault.



Muscle Beach Party(1964)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.



The Rat Race(1960)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Tender romantic comedy about an aspiring musician who arrives in New York in search of fame & fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.



Yoyo(1965)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A man has everything: dozens of servants, a palace, vast woods, gardens, a lake, mechanical toys, private entertainment troupes of musicians and dancers. He has it all - but love. When ...



Miss Muerte(1966)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Woman seeks to avenge her father's death by using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.



Gidget Goes Hawaiian(1961)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Francine (Gidget) is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggie" is home from College. When he...



Necronomicon - Geträumte Sünden(1968)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Janine Reynaud stars as a nightclub stripper who free-floats through a spectral 60's landscape littered with dream-figures, dancing midgets and bizarre S&M games.



Vinyl(1965)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Warhol's strange interpretation of "A Clockwork Orange." Includes Gerard dancing to the Martha and the Vandellas classic "Nowhere to Run" and being tortured by professional sadists.



The Texican(1966)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Wanted north of the border, Jess Carlin resides safely in Mexico. Then he hears his brother was killed in a gunfight with another man. Knowning his brother never carried a gun he heads ...



The Angel Wore Red(1960)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A clergyman leaves the priesthood over the church's indifferent position during the Spanish Civil War but finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.



Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River(1968)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An American plans to bilk the British out of some considerable money with the help of an English con artist.



L'amante del vampiro(1960)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A troupe of beautiful young dancers find themselves stranded in a sinister, spooky old castle, not knowing that it is home to a group of vampires.



Satan in High Heels(1962)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A carnival burlesque dancer robs her junkie ex-husband, goes to New York, gets a job at a high-class club where she becomes the mistress of the wealthy owner. She seduces his son and causes...



Don't Knock the Twist(1962)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Many twist dancers' meet in preparation for the TV variety show called "The Twist." While the special is still in the production stages, jealousies lead to problems - and a whole lot of dancing.




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