Critically acclaimed Dance movies that are oscar winners or nominees

What's the Matter with Helen?(1971)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.



Thank God It's Friday(1978)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other ...



Two for the Seesaw(1962)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce. He meets up with Gittel Mosca, an impoverished dancer from ...



Gambit(1966)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 5

An English cat burglar needs a Eurasian dancer's help to pull off the perfect heist, but even the most foolproof schemes have a way of backfiring.



Sweet Charity(1969)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her ...



Darling Lili(1970)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.



Can-Can(1960)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Montmartre, 1896: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their female...



Seven Thieves(1960)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A motley crew of professional thieves plans the robbery of a Monte Carlo casino vault.



Gypsy(1962)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.



Los tarantos(1963)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A boy and a girl from two rival Gypsy families fall in love.



Isadora(1968)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...



Farewell, My Lovely(1975)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub 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 (...



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 ...




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