Films with theme "Dance films", sorted by rating

, 2h
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Dance films, Films about suicide
Actors Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Gig Young, Susannah York, Red Buttons, Bonnie Bedelia

Robert Syverton (Michael Sarrazin), who once dreamed of being a great film director, recalls the events leading to an unstated crime. In his youth, he saw a horse break its leg, after which it was shot and put out of its misery. Years later, in 1932 during the Great Depression, he wanders into a dance marathon about to begin in the shabby La Monica Ballroom, perched over the Pacific Ocean on the Santa Monica Pier, near Los Angeles. He is recruited by MC (Master of Ceremonies) Rocky (Gig Young) as a substitute partner for a cynical malcontent named Gloria (Jane Fonda), when her original partner is disqualified because of an ominous cough.

, 2h
Directed by Bob Fosse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Films about angels, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Max Wright, Gwen Verdon

Joe Gideon is a theater director and choreographer trying to balance work on his latest Broadway musical with editing a Hollywood film he has directed. He is a workaholic who chain-smokes cigarettes, and without a daily dose of Vivaldi, Visine, Alka-Seltzer, Dexedrine, and sex, he wouldn't have the energy to keep up the biggest "show" of all — his life. His girlfriend Katie Jagger, his ex-wife Audrey Paris, and daughter Michelle try to pull him back from the brink, but it is too late for his exhausted body and stress-ravaged heart. In his imagination, he flirts with an angel of death named Angelique.

, 2h4
Directed by Bob Fosse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about writers, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, Fritz Wepper, Marisa Berenson

In 1931 Berlin, young American Sally Bowles performs at the Kit Kat Klub. A new British arrival in the city, Brian Roberts, moves into the boarding house where Sally lives. A reserved academic and writer, Brian gives English lessons to earn a living while completing his doctorate. Sally tries seducing Brian and suspects he may be gay. Brian tells Sally that on three previous occasions he has tried to have physical relationships with women, all of which failed. They become friends, and Brian witnesses Sally's anarchic, bohemian life in the last days of the German Weimar Republic. Sally and Brian become lovers despite their earlier reservations; they conclude that his previous failures with women were because they were "the wrong three girls".

, 35minutes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Dance films

, 13minutes
Directed by Norman McLaren
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Musical, Animation
Themes Dance films

, 2h23
Directed by Jandhyala‌
Themes Dance films
Actors Girish Karnad, Kanchana, J. V. Ramana Murthi, Mukku Raju, Rajesh, Suthi Veerabhadra Rao

This is a movie which gives you an idea about the origin of Kuchipudi dance. It is about the people who considered a girl performing "Kuchipudi" dance an embarrassment and about a man who is fighting tooth and nail to pass on the heritage of "Kuchipudi". He finally manages to find a girl who he trains in "Kuchipudi". As girls learning Kuchipudi was not accepted in that era he gets outcast from his caste, place and also the religious places.

, 1h51
Directed by Stephen Daldry
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about children, Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about the labor movement, La précarité, Musical films, Political films
Actors Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Draven, Jean Heywood, Stuart Wells

The film is set in the fictional County Durham mining town of Everington Village during the 1984-85 UK miners' strike, and centres on the character of 11-year-old Billy Elliot, his love of dance, and his hopes of becoming a professional ballet dancer. Billy lives with his widowed father, Jackie, and older brother, Tony, both coal miners out on strike (the latter being the union leader), and also his maternal grandmother, who probably has Alzheimer's disease and once aspired to be a professional dancer. Billy's mother, Jenny, died on 2 December 1983, aged 38.

, 1h41
Directed by Mark Sandrich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Helen Broderick

An American dancer, Jerry Travers (Fred Astaire) comes to London to star in a show produced by the bumbling Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton). While practicing a tap dance routine in his hotel bedroom, he awakens Dale Tremont (Ginger Rogers) on the floor below. She storms upstairs to complain, whereupon Jerry falls hopelessly in love with her and proceeds to pursue her all over London.

, 2h16
Directed by Masayuki Suo
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films
Actors Kōji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Masahiro Motoki, Eriko Watanabe, Yu Tokui

The film begins with a close-up of the inscription above the stage in the ballroom of the Blackpool Tower: "Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear", from the poem Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare. As the camera pans around the ballroom giving a view of the dancers, a voice-over explains that in Japan, ballroom dancing is treated with suspicion.

, 2h5
Directed by Paul Satterfield, Norman Ferguson, Thornton Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Dave Hand, Ben Sharpsteen, James Algar, Ford Beebe, Hamilton Luske, Samuel Armstrong, Bill Roberts
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Dance films, Dinosaur films, Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, La préhistoire, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Mise en scène d'une souris, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Walt Disney, Jimmy MacDonald, Bela Lugosi, Paul J. Smith, Corey Burton, Jean Piat

Le film est composé de sept séquences illustrant huit morceaux de musique classique, réorchestrés et dirigés par le chef d'orchestre Leopold Stokowski à la tête de l'Orchestre de Philadelphie. La dernière séquence illustre deux morceaux et un intermède sépare la séquence 4 et 5. Chaque séquence est précédée d'une courte introduction où l'orchestre est en ombre chinoise.

, 2h2
Directed by David O. Russell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Christmas films, Films about sexuality, Sports films, American football films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher

After eight months of treatment for bipolar disorder, Pat Solitano is released from a mental health facility in Baltimore, and returns to Lansdowne, Pennsylvania into the care of his father Patrizio and mother Dolores. Pat soon learns that his estranged wife, Nikki, has moved away, and that his father is out of work and resorting to illegal bookmaking to earn money with the hopes of opening a restaurant. Pat is determined to get his life back on track and reconcile with Nikki, who obtained a restraining order against him after a violent episode sent him away.

, 1h50
Directed by Ettore Scola
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Musical
Themes Dance films, Musical films
Actors Monica Scattini, Marc Berman, Geneviève Rey-Penchenat, Rossana Di Lorenzo, Christophe Allwright, Jean-François Perrier

Cinquante ans de danse de salon en France, depuis les années 1930 : le Front populaire, la Guerre, l'arrivée du jazz et du rock, Mai 68, le disco… Les couples silencieux se font et se défont au gré de l'histoire et de la musique.

, 1h36
Directed by James D. Stern
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about cities, Musical films
Actors Marvin Hamlisch, Jason Tam, Baayork Lee

Le film retrace le casting et la production de la comédie musicale Chorus Line à Broadway (759 représentations entre 2006 et 2009).

, 1h51
Directed by Robert Helpmann, Rudolf Nureyev
Genres Musical
Themes Dance films, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Robert Helpmann, Rudolf Nureyev

Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Dance films