Best Dance movies of 1980s

Rustlers' Rhapsody(1985)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 10

While the audience watches a black and white horse opera, a narrator's voice wonders what such a movie would be like today. Rex O'Herlihan, The Singing Cowboy, finds himself in color and ...



Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling(1986)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 12

After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.



White Mischief(1987)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A millionaire past his prime, and his young wife, arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large, as the homefront gears up for war. They ...



The Forbidden Dance(1990)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Filmed during the Lambada dance craze (if there really ever was one), this film tries to have a social conscience. A princess (Laura Herring) in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a ...



The Monster Club(1981)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A writer of horror stories is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman. There, three gruesome stories are told to him; between each story some musicians play their songs.



Les uns et les autres(1981)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Trough fabulous Music this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to ...



Rooftops(1989)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A skilled young street fighter battles criminals across the rooftops of New York City.



Pascali's Island(1988)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 10

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.



Carmen(1983)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very spanish version of the Prosper Merimee's drama. Antonio (the coreographer) falls in love with Carmen (the main dancer). Their story then ...



Tap(1989)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Just released from prison, Max Washington must decide which of his previous professions to return to burglar or tap dancer.



Le bal(1983)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (...



Sagara Sangamam(1983)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A classical dancer, Balakrishna, (Kamal Haasan) faces many struggles, but is eventually redeemed.



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 ...



Nijinsky(1980)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier...



Bye Bye Brasil(1980)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion ...



Bodas de sangre(1981)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Group of dancers put Lorca's 'Blood Wedding' on stage, the tragic play about a married man who is still in love with his ex girlfriend, and tries to get back to her despite her planned wedding.



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 ...



BlackJack(1990)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Kaj, Lennart and Robert are 30-somethings who goes out to dance every weekend. At one dance they meet Inger, whom Kaj falls in love with. Kaj has some friends who are playing in a band. The...



Girls Nite Out(1982)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A killer, wearing a dancing bear suit, stalks a variety of cheerleaders during an all-night scavenger hunt at a remote Ohio college.



Murderock - Uccide a passo di danza(1984)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The owner of a prestigious New York ballet school teams up with a male model to solve a series of bizarre murders of a few of the students.




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