Best Dance movies of 2010s

Jimmy's Hall(2014)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 67

During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his deportation.



Gloria Bell(2018)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 87

A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.



Zola(2020)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida.



Afternoon Delight(2013)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 57

Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom. Frustrated with the realities of preschool auctions, a lackluster sex life and career that's gone kaput, Rachel visits a strip club to...



Ema(2019)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.



Zola(2020)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida.



Work It(2020)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 46

When Quinn Ackerman's admission to the college of her dreams depends on her performance at a dance competition, she forms a ragtag group of dancers to take on the best squad in school...now she just needs to learn how to dance.



Lay the Favorite(2012)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Ex-private dancer Beth aspires to be a Las Vegas cocktail waitress, when she falls in with Dink, a sports gambler. Sparks fly as she proves to be something of a gambling prodigy--much to the ire of Dink's wife, Tulip.



Farewell Amor(2020)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Reunited after 17 years, an Angolan immigrant is joined in the U.S. by his wife and daughter. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome the distance between them.



Footloose(2011)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 29

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



Mr. Morgan's Last Love(2013)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 40

He's a widower in Paris who speaks no French; she's a dance instructor less than half his age. Can they become a family, or will his estranged adult children halt the friendship?



Battle of the Year(2013)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 41

Battle of the Year attracts all the best teams from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years. Dante enlists Blake to assemble a team of the best dancers and bring the Trophy back to America where it started.



Divines(2016)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.



Nobody Walks(2012)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A Silver Lake family's relaxed dynamic is tested after they take in a young artist so she can complete her art film.



Northern Soul(2014)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 53

Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.



Divine Love(2019)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A woman uses her bureaucratic job to convince divorcing couples to stay together is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies and fundamentalist Christianity.



Rafiki(2018)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 62

"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.



Frankie & Alice(2010)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.



Match(2014)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 52

As a Juilliard professor is interviewed by a woman and her husband for her dissertation on the history of dance in 1960s New York, it becomes increasingly clear that there are ulterior motives to the couple's visit.



Polina, danser sa vie(2016)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A young girl studies classical ballet. As a young woman she turns to modern dance and choreography.




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