Best Dance movies

The Artist(2011)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 91

A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.



Black Swan(2010)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity.



House of Flying Daggers(2004)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.



Hustlers(2019)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 87

Inspired by the viral New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.



Hairspray(2007)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 84

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.



Hail, Caesar!(2016)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.



The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.



Everybody Wants Some!!(2016)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 86

In 1980, a group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.



West Side Story(2021)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 89

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.



Frances Ha(2012)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A story that follows as a New York woman (who doesn't really have an apartment) apprentices for a dance company (though she's not really a dancer) and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possibility dwindles.



Fish Tank(2009)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.



The Adjustment Bureau(2011)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The affair between a politician and a contemporary dancer is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.



Billy Elliot(2000)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.



Magic Mike XXL(2015)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance.



Dancer in the Dark(2000)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.



Girls Trip(2017)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 77

When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling, and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.



Grease(1978)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?



Burlesque(2010)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.



Saturday Night Fever(1977)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A Brooklyn teenager feels his only chance to succeed is as the king of the disco floor. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to forget the reality of his bleak life.



Shall We Dance(2004)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A romantic comedy where a bored, overworked Estate Lawyer, upon first sight of a beautiful instructor, signs up for ballroom dancing lessons.




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