Best Dance movies

Strictly Ballroom(1992)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 36

A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.



Assassination Tango(2002)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 59

An aging hitman gets a contract to kill a general in Buenos Aires. But when his mark becomes unavailable, he becomes involved in Argentinian tango culture.



Footloose(2011)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 29

City teenager Ren MacCormack moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.



Carlito's Way(1993)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.



Striptease(1996)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 30

A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her.



Tony Manero(2008)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).



Mr. Morgan's Last Love(2013)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 40

He's a widower in Paris who speaks no French; she's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship?



A Chorus Line(1985)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 43

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



Tango & Cash(1989)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Two cops are framed and must clear their names.



Gray Matters(2006)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 45

They finish each other's sentences, dance like Fred and Ginger, and share the same downtown loft--the perfect couple? Not exactly. Gray and Sam, are a sister and brother so compatible and inseparable that people actually assume they are dating. Mortified, they both agree they must branch out and start searching for love. He'll look for a guy for her and she'll look for a gal for him.



Battle of the Year(2013)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 41

Battle of the Year attracts all the best teams from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years. Dante enlists Blake to assemble a team of the best dancers and bring the Trophy back to America where it started.



Divines(2016)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.



The Loved Ones(2009)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 27

When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.



Nobody Walks(2012)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A Silver Lake family's relaxed dynamic is tested after they take in a young artist so she can complete her art film.



Northern Soul(2014)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 53

Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.



The Last Boy Scout(1991)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 21

A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician.



Animal(2023)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 20

The hardened son of a powerful industrialist returns home after years abroad and vows to take bloody revenge on those threatening his father's life.



Planet Terror(2007)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 18

After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it's up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release.



Divine Love(2019)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A woman uses her bureaucratic job to convince divorcing couples to stay together is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies and fundamentalist Christianity.



Lola(1961)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 49

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.




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