Best Dance movies of 1980s

Actors : Ray Lovelock, Cosimo Cinieri, Olga Karlatos, Claudio Cassinelli,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

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.

Actors : Jennifer Runyon, Joe Pantoliano, Donovan Leitch Jr., Bruce Kirby,
Directors : Mark Rosenthal,

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 ...

Actors : Laura del Sol, Juan Antonio Jiménez, Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

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...

Actors : Srividya, Revathy, Kamal Haasan, Rekha Mallick,
Directors : K. Balachander,

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

Actors : Joe Melia, Michael Elphick, John Standing, Patrick Pearson,
Directors : Michael Blakemore,

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 ...

Actors : Meg Tilly, Judge Reinhold, Cleavant Derricks, Joe Mantegna,
Directors : Michael Dinner,

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...

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Sylvia Kristel, Gaye Brown, Christopher Cazenove,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

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 ...

Actors : Feroz Khan, Amjad Khan, Vinod Khanna, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : Feroz Khan,

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 ...

Actors : Gabrielle Lazure, Alan Arkin, James Woods, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

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

Actors : John Scott Clough, Don Franklin, Tamara Mark, Tracy Silver,
Directors : Sidney Poitier,

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 ...

Actors : Arkadi Nasyrov, Natalya Gundareva, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Evgeniy Evstigneev,
Directors : Karen Shakhnazarov,

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. ...

Actors : William Lorenzo, Jaclyn Jose, Allan Paule, Daniel Fernando,
Directors : Lino Brocka,

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 ...

Actors : Antonis Antoniou, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Sofia Roubou, Katerina Gogou,
Directors : Pavlos Tasios,

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.

Actors : Patti Chambers, Carla Bragoli, Carrie Gordon, Carmine Capobianco,
Directors : Gorman Bechard,

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 ...

Actors : Mario Van Peebles, Eriq La Salle, Melvin Plowden, Richie Abanes,
Directors : Joel Silberg,

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

Actors : Bhanupriya, Venkatesh Daggubati, Sharon Loven, Devilalita,
Directors : K. Viswanath,

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 ...

Actors : Marina Vlady, Marie Laforêt, Philippe Léotard, Miguel Ángel Solá,
Directors : Fernando E. Solanas,

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

Actors : Norman Fell, Greg Evigan, Pia Kamakahi, Kay Lenz,
Directors : Katt Shea,

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...

Actors : Vladislava Milosavljevic, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Mladen Budiscak, Zijah Sokolovic,
Directors : Rajko Grlic,

Tomislav is a former Partizan who continues his struggle after the war as a dedicated member of Tito's secret police. He meets and falls in love with a ballet dancer from a bourgeois family...

Actors : Hans-Jürgen Schatz, Michele Placido, Anne Bennent, Jean-Jacques Delbo,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

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'.