Best Dance movies of 1988

Hairspray(1988)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 61

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



Pascali's Island(1988)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 9

1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.



Salsa(1988)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Fatherless barrio Puertorican Rico is a menial car mechanic by day, but lives for the nights, when he dances and dates hot dancing girls, cockily convinced the title of Salsa king in fancy ...



Assault of the Killer Bimbos(1988)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Two go-go dancers, Lulu and Peaches, are framed for the murder of their employer by the real killer, sleazy gangster Vinnie. Picking up waitress Darlene along the way, the three are ...



The In Crowd(1988)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young man of the rock and roll generation is in his senior year of high school. When one day he successfully gets on a popular teen dance television show he becomes a star. The plot ...



Macho Dancer(1988)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Abandoned by his American lover, a handsome teenager from the mountains journeys to Manila in an effort to support his family. With a popular call boy as his mentor, Paul enters the ...



Swarnakamalam(1988)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A painter who recently moved into the neighborhood helps his neighbor, a retired cultural dance artist. He helps by painting billboards advertising events in which the artist and his ...



Poletje v skoljki 2(1988)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Three years later, Tomaz meets Milena in Ljubljana where she practices dancing. In order to spend more time with her, Tomaz enrolls at the dance club where he finds many new friends. As the...



Anna(1988)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of young ballerina Anna, as she becomes a professional dancer and is ready to leave Munich and move across the Atlantic to New York.



Dirty Love(1988)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Valentine Demy and Susan Little star in this erotic tale of a young girl who sets off from the suburbs of New York City to seek fame as a dancer on Broadway. She finds that her exuberant ...



Shadow Dancing(1988)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Jess, a struggling dancer, is trying out for a part in a musical about Medusa. As she practices, the director notices how much she resembles his former lover, a ballerina who died in a ...



AkaTaMuS(1988)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two eternal opposing theses - play is our life or life is our play - are the base of music, dance and verse which fit together in this film.



Ballhaus Barmbek(1988)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A study of the alienated people who frequent the Ballhaus Barmbek dance hall, including an obese El groupie, an old man reciting poetry, two young women and a regular dance employee.



La passerelle(1988)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Jean Nevers is a solitary middle-aged bachelor whose apartment is next to that of Cora Elbaz, an erotic dancer who lives alone with her five year old son Antoine.



Natal da Portela(1988)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.



Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em(1988)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When a nuclear war hits Melbourne, Australia, we find that there's more than one way to survive in the fallout - why sit around wasting what air's left when there's time now to get loose and dance?



Two to Tango(1988)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Jim Conrad, a reluctant hitman, is ordered to Buenos Aires to complete one last contract. The task becomes complicated when the intended victim proves to be a well-protected man accompanied...



Jailbird Rock(1988)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young dancer protecting her mother from her abusive stepfather is forced to shoot him. She is convicted and sent to prison. The inmates hatch an escape plan, part of which is to put on a musical show to cover the attempted breakout.



Dance Academy(1988)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Blue-collar worker Vince stumbles into a dance school, where he quickly becomes entranced by the music. Miss McKenzie, the school's manager and former owner, is about to throw him out on ...



Yaogun Qingnian(1988)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ling Ma, Ke Shi,
Zhuangzhuang Tian,

A young dancer tries his best to make some modern innovation in his work.




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