Best Dance movies of 1980s

Actors : Julia Montgomery, Suzanne Barnes, James Carroll, Rutanya Alda,
Directors : Robert Deubel,

A killer, wearing a dancing bear suit, stalks a variety of cheerleaders during an all-night scavenger hunt at a remote Ohio college.

Actors : Srividya, Revathy, Kamal Haasan, Rekha Mallick,
Directors : K. Balachander,

After a failed suicide attempt that ultimately leaves his lover dead, a dancer changes his life.

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Sylvia Kristel, 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 : Jennifer Runyon, Joe Pantoliano, Bruce Kirby, Donovan Leitch Jr.,
Directors : Mark Rosenthal,

A young man of the rock and roll generation is in his senior year of high school. When one day he successfully gets on a popular teen dance television show he becomes a star. The plot ...

Actors : Joe Melia, Michael Elphick, John Standing, Patrick Pearson,
Directors : Michael Blakemore,

The members of SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) fall in and out of love while trying to dodge Malayan Communist bullets in the late 1940s. Not only that, they have to contend ...

Actors : Laura del Sol, Juan Antonio Jiménez, Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he...

Actors : Feroz Khan, Amjad Khan, Vinod Khanna, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : Feroz Khan,

A cabaret dancer and singer, Sheela (Zeenat Aman) has two admirers: a small-time thief Rajesh (Feroz Khan), and a young, eligible widower, Amar (Vinod Khanna). Both are best friends and ...

Actors : Meg Tilly, Judge Reinhold, Cleavant Derricks, Joe Mantegna,
Directors : Michael Dinner,

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in...

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 : Antonis Antoniou, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Sofia Roubou, Katerina Gogou,
Directors : Pavlos Tasios,

The real story of Nikos Koemtzis, who one night knifed a company of men in a tavern, just because they wanted to dance on the song he had "ordered" from the musicians.

Actors : Bhanupriya, Venkatesh Daggubati, Sharon Loven, Devilalita,
Directors : K. Viswanath,

A painter who recently moved into the neighborhood helps his neighbor, a retired cultural dance artist. He helps by painting billboards advertising events in which the artist and his ...

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 : William Lorenzo, Jaclyn Jose, Allan Paule, Daniel Fernando,
Directors : Lino Brocka,

Abandoned by his American lover, a handsome teenager from the mountains journeys to Manila in an effort to support his family. With a popular call boy as his mentor, Paul enters the ...

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 : 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 : Norman Fell, Greg Evigan, Pia Kamakahi, Kay Lenz,
Directors : Katt Shea,

When Detective Cody Sheehan discovers the body of a stripper from the Rock Bottom dance club, she wants the case. Her partner, Detective Heineman, is equally anxious to make the jump to the...

Actors : Patti Chambers, Carla Bragoli, Carrie Gordon, Carmine Capobianco,
Directors : Gorman Bechard,

A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. They fall in love and are happy being the family ...

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 : Richard E. Grant, Cassie Stuart, Bill Paterson, Charles Dance,
Directors : Stephen Poliakoff,

Sharon Newton (Cassie Stuart) leads the uncooperative James Richards (Charles Dance) into a world of misplaced government secrets, capitalistic artists and bungling secret agents. Will the ...

Actors : Wilson Lam, Eric Tsang, Lap-Man Tan, Joey Wang,
Directors : Clara Law,

A woman (Joey Wang) is cursed with beauty in China and becomes prey for men. Raped by the prefect of her ballet school and sent to work camp, she escapes to decadent Hong Kong by marrying a...