Best Dance movies

How She Move(2007)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Following her sister's death from drug addiction, a high school student is forced to leave her private school to return to her old, crime-filled neighborhood where she re-kindles an unlikely passion for the competitive world of step dancing.



Mao's Last Dancer(2009)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In ...



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...



A Night at the Roxbury(1998)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 40

Two dim-witted brothers dream of owning their own dance club or at least getting into the coolest and most exclusive club in town, The Roxbury.



The Man Who Cried(2000)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.



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.



Showgirls(1995)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 37

Nomi, a young drifter, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls.



Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary(2002)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A ballet rendition of Bram Stoker's "Dracula", stylized as an Expressionistic silent film.



Confetti(2006)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A mockumentary that follows three couples as they battle it out to win the coveted title of 'Most Original Wedding of the Year'.



The Golden Child(1986)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 34

A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child who dark forces want to eliminate.



Meet the Spartans(2008)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 30

The heroic Spartan king Leonidas, armed with nothing but leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag bunch of 13 Spartan misfit warriors to defend their homeland against thousands of ...



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.



From Justin to Kelly(2003)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 36

A waitress from Texas and a college student from Pennsylvania meet during spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and come together through their shared love of singing.



Dot the I(2003)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Young lovers in London are wrapped up in a love triangle that may not be exactly what it seems.



Strictly Ballroom(1992)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 36

A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.



The Center of the World(2001)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap dancer at a club. He's depressed, ...



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.



Carlito's Way(1993)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.




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