Best Dance movies

Swing Kids(1993)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun lead to more difficult choices as the Nazis begin tightening the grip on ...



Vengo(2000)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 53

Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved daughter. He constantly visits her ...



Satin rouge(2002)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 60

After the death of her husband, Lilia's life revolves solely around her teenage daughter, Salma. Whilst looking for Salma late one night, Lilia stumbles upon a belly dance cabaret and ...



Paris(2008)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the ...



Rafiki(2018)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 61

"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.



Surviving Picasso(1996)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 41

The passionate Merchant Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso, who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty, and move on with her life.



Blues Brothers 2000(1998)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Elwood must reunite the old band, with a few new members, and go on another "Mission from God."



Match(2014)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 52

As a Juilliard professor is interviewed by a woman and her husband for her dissertation on the history of dance in 1960s New York, it becomes increasingly clear that there are ulterior motives to the couple's visit.



Paper Moon(1973)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 23

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.



Shall we dansu?(1996)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 34

A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.



Frankie & Alice(2010)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.



Polina, danser sa vie(2016)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A young girl studies classical ballet. As a young woman she turns to modern dance and choreography.



All That Jazz(1979)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 23

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.



History of the World: Part I(1981)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.



Frankie Freako(2024)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 54

Workaholic yuppie Conor is in an existential rut until one night he catches a bizarre ad for a party hotline hosted by a strange dancing goblin: Frankie Freako. Could this be just the recipe to spice up his boring life?



The Company(2003)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 37

Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer (Campbell) who's poised to become a principal performer.



Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School(2005)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A widowed man's life turns upside down when he embarks on a journey to find a dying man's long lost love.



The Guru(2002)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 24

South Asian Ramu Gupta has always been fascinated with western movie musicals and has wanted to be an American movie star primarily as a dancer. So when he hears from his friend Vijay Rao ...



The Tango Lesson(1997)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 46

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from ...



Birds of Paradise(2021)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Two girls at an elite Parisian ballet academy have their bond and bodies tested as they compete for a contract to join the company of the Opéra national de Paris.




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