Best Dance movies of 1980s

Actors : Bill Murray, Ted Knight, Rodney Dangerfield, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Harold Ramis,

An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher.

Actors : Debbie Harry, Divine, Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown,
Directors : John Waters,

A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

Actors : Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton, Melanie Griffith, Craig Wasson,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

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

Actors : Jennifer Beals, Sunny Johnson, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.

Actors : J.L. Reate, Charlotte Lewis, Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child who dark forces want to eliminate.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Sylvester Stallone, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance,

Two cops are framed and must clear their names.

Actors : Terrence Mann, Michael Blevins, Yamil Borges, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

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

Actors : Gregory Hines, Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

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.

Actors : Gregory Hines, Helen Mirren, Jerzy Skolimowski, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to...

Actors : Lucinda Dickey, Ben Lokey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers,
Directors : Joel Silberg,

A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.

Actors : Robbie Robertson, Meg Foster, Gary Busey, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Robert Kaylor,

Tired of her dull job as a waitress, Donna decides to join two carnival hustlers and see what life in their field is like.

Actors : Cynthia Rhodes, Steve Inwood, Finola Hughes, John Travolta,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet - succeeding as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

Actors : Ian Michael Giatti, Kristi Somers, Richard Blade, Biff Yeager,
Directors : Alan Metter,

Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular ...

Actors : John Hurt, Ian McKellen, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.

Actors : Lawrence Tierney, Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Farley Granger,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.

Actors : Sam Neill, Meryl Streep, André Maranne, Charles Dance,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.

Actors : Pai Wei, Biao Yuen, Jackie Chan, Lily Li,
Directors : Jackie Chan,

After failing his fellow students in a Lion Dance competition, Dragon (Jackie Chan) is sent away from his school in disgrace, on the condition that he must find his errant brother. Much ...

Actors : Lady Pink, Fab 5 Freddy, Patti Astor, 'Lee' George Quinones,
Directors : Charlie Ahearn,

Legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays the part of Zoro, the city's hottest and most elusive graffiti writer. The actual story of the movie concerns the tension between ...

Actors : Kim Richards, James Spader, Paul Mones, Matt Clark,
Directors : Fritz Kiersch,

The new kid in school must battle a gang of street toughs after stealing the gang leader's girl.