Best Dance movies of 1980s

Actors : Colleen Keegan, Edwin Neal, Tammy Stones, Dennis Worthington,
Directors : John Woodward,

A writer needs funds to make a film based on her screenplay. She will stop at nothing to get the bucks including dancing at a nude bar, stealing cash and hijacking snakes.

Actors : Robin Cleaver, Robin Antin, Rhonda Aldrich, Valerie Richards,
Directors : Phillip Schuman,

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.

Actors : P. Anand, Sambha Arye, Balchandra, Barchibahaddar,
Directors : Anant Mane,

Wealthy Jaisinghrao Pawar lives a harmonious lifestyle with his widowed mother and attractive wife, Tara, in a small community in Maharashtra, India. He gets attracted to a visiting Lavhni ...

Actors : Stefan Aust, Stefan Blaich, Achmed Akcicek, Winfried Bornemann,
Directors : Christel Buschmann,

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.

Actors : Deven Verma, Mithun Chakraborty, Beena Banerjee, Sujit Kumar,
Directors : K. Viswanath,

Mahant Chaturvedi did not approve of his daughter marrying outside of their caste to Gopi, and as such breaks off all relations with them. Years later, Gopi attempts to make amends by ...

Actors : Nirmalamma, Sudha Chandran, Narayana P.L., Subhakar,
Directors : Singeetham Srinivasa Rao,

The real story of a classical dancer, who loses her leg in an accident and fights her way back as a dancer.

Actors : Zezé Motta, Milton Gonçalves, Grande Otelo, Almir Guineto,
Directors : Paulo César Saraceni,

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.

Actors : M.V. Vasudeva Rao, Archana, Archana Puran Singh, Pavan Malhotra,
Directors : Buddhadev Dasgupta,

Bagh Bahadur is a 1989 Bengali drama film directed and written by Buddhadev Dasgupta. The film is about a man who paints himself as a tiger and dances in a village in Bengal. The movie ...

Actors : Haruko Katô, Lisa Wolf, Brigitte Graham, Hiromi Gô,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

Young military doctor goes to study in 1880s Berlin and falls in love with a local dancer. Tragedy ensues.

Actors : Shekhar Suman, Aruna Irani, Sudha Chandran, Dina Pathak,
Directors : Rama Rao Tatineni,

Classical dancer Sudha Chandran lost her leg in an accident but her spirit of being a dancer never died.

Actors : Granville Ames, Jack Axelrod, Robert Ackerman, Joy Claussen,
Directors : Ted Mather,

Faith is a young dancer, whose parents are killed in a plain crash. Dancing is her refuge, but the streets of Los Angeles can be dangerous for a lonesome woman.

Actors : Cole Stevens, Charles Laulette, Kim Evenson, Sandahl Bergman,
Directors : Robert Allen Schnitzer,

Joni gets persuaded to enter a bikini contest by her friends and likes the attention. She talks to another contestant, Harlow, who suggests she try exotic dancing at Kandyland, where she ...

Actors : Halil Ergün, Harika Avci, Nazan Ayas, Ülkü Ülker,
Directors : Erdogan Tokatli,

Yasemin is a poor girl living with her aunt. She desires to move to big city and get fame. She starts belly dancing at a tavern. She runs away to Istanbul with Yakup. There she has to do prostitution.

Actors : Jackie Shroff, Poonam Dhillon, Vinod Khanna, Sridevi,
Directors : Shomu Mukherjee,

Asha Rai wants to establish herself as a dancer, while her sister, Lata, wants to establish herself as a singer par excellence. Both compete openly in front of a crowd, and Asha wins this ...

Actors : Nadine Van der Velde, James Kee, Gregory Osborne, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Lewis Furey,

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 ...

Actors : Atanass Atanassov, Lilia Ignatova, Maria Statulova, Ivaylo Hristov,
Directors : Georgi Djulgerov,

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.

Actors : Anita Morris, Dennis Christopher, Shelly Desai, Rita Gomez,
Directors : William Schreiner,

A former 'Sonny and Cher' dancer tries to pull her life together when social services threaten to take her daughter away from her.

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Charlotte Valandrey, Richard Berry, Evelyne Didi,
Directors : Alain Page,

The meeting of Manuel, a lady's dancer, Petrus, an unfortunate gambler, and Corinne, a fast-food waitress. The drifting of three drop-outs, three solitary dreamers, adventurous waverers.

Actors : Ui-sang Kim, Sang-mi Lee, Sang-a Lee, Ha-won Jeong,
Directors : Mi-rye Lee,

Hae-ri has trouble being accepted at her new school until she befriends the handsome Chang-ha. However she soon drops out to pursue her dream of becoming a dancer. Chang-ha tries to ...

Actors : Mustafa Metwalli, Salah Kabil, Farouk Falawkas, Nabila Ebeid,
Directors : Samir Seif,

A dancer asks a politician with whom she once had an affair to use his influence on her behalf.