Best Dance movies of 1980s

Lambada(1990)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them ...



Qurbani(1980)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A cabaret dancer and singer, Sheela (Zeenat Aman) has two admirers: a small-time thief Rajesh (Feroz Khan), and a young, eligible widower, Amar (Vinod Khanna). Both are best friends and ...



Privates on Parade(1983)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The members of SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) fall in and out of love while trying to dodge Malayan Communist bullets in the late 1940s. Not only that, they have to contend ...



Mata Hari(1985)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Mata Hari is a beautiful Dutch-born dancer, working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as ...



Off Beat(1986)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in...



El amor brujo(1986)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he...



Punnagai Mannan(1986)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a failed suicide attempt that ultimately leaves his lover dead, a dancer changes his life.



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 ...



Parangelia!(1980)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The real story of Nikos Koemtzis, who one night knifed a company of men in a tavern, just because they wanted to dance on the song he had "ordered" from the musicians.



Fast Forward(1985)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Eight young people from Ohio who are dancers, come to New York, to compete in a major talent competition. But when they get there, they learn that they have to wait some time before they ...



Rappin'(1985)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.



Joshua Then and Now(1985)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.



El exilio de Gardel: Tangos(1985)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.



Zimniy vecher v Gagrakh(1985)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as step became unpopular he lost everything. ...



Willy/Milly(1986)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Milly is annoyed whenever her mom tells her to behave more appropriate for a girl. She's just not interested in fancy dresses or prom dances. Some day her best friend's little brother ...



Stripped to Kill(1987)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When Detective Cody Sheehan discovers the body of a stripper from the Rock Bottom dance club, she wants the case. Her partner, Detective Heineman, is equally anxious to make the jump to the...



Psychos in Love(1987)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. They fall in love and are happy being the family ...



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 ...



Lulu(1980)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of a sexually enticing young dancer who rises up in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack 'the Ripper'.




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