Best Dance movies of recent years

West Side Story(2021)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 89

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.



Magic Mike's Last Dance(2023)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Mike takes to the stage again, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can't refuse.



Birds of Paradise(2021)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Two girls at an elite Parisian ballet academy have their bond and bodies tested as they compete for a contract to join the company of the Opéra national de Paris.



Wedding Season(2022)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 37

Pressured by their parents to find spouses, Asha and Ravi pretend to date during a summer of weddings, only to find themselves falling for each other.



A Chiara(2021)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Follows the story of 15-year-old Chiara whose close-knit family falls apart after her father abandons them in Calabria.



Dancing Queens(2021)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

The story of Dylan Pettersson, a 23 year old girl from a small island in the Swedish archipelago with big dancing aspirations.



Tango Shalom(2021)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A Tango dancer and a rabbi develop a plan to enter a dance competition without sacrificing his orthodox beliefs. Family, tolerance, and community are tested one dazzling dance step at a time.



Dreams on Fire(2021)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A vibrant and intoxicating look into Japanese dance and subculture communities.



Maja Ma(2022)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A rumor about Pallavi Patel, a quintessential, middle aged, devoted housewife who is famous for her dance and cooking, threatens to disrupt her middle-class family's ethos, on the eve of her son Tejas' engagement with a rich, NRI girl.



Love You Too(2022)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Love You Too is an extramarital love story. Surya (a dance choreographer) struggles to justify his loyalty in love relationship with Sushma (a dancer), yet wanting to continue to stay loyal in his marital relationship with Poorna.



Boy Meets Boy(2021)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Harry has been partying for 48 hours when he meets Johannes on the dance floor of a club in Berlin. With 15 hours until his flight home, Johannes offers to help him print his boarding pass....



Bloody Oranges(2021)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A retired couple deeply in debt try to win a rock dance competition.A minister is suspected of tax fraud. A teenager makes the acquaintance of a pervert.



Natyam(2021)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the ancient dance village Natyam, Sitara attempts to resurrect her Guru's forgotten masterpiece choreography and discovers the true power and purpose of Indian Classical Dance. To dance is to tell a story that can change our world.



Dancing on Glass(2022)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 4

When pressure threatens a ballerina in a new lead role, she and an outcast dancer create their own world, free from others' expectations.



Frank and Penelope(2022)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as EVERYTHING is now worth dying for.



Time to Dance(2021)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When a ballroom dancer's shot at a crucial tournament is jeopardized, a street dancer must face his own painful past and step up as her new partner.



Ask Me to Dance(2022)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 6

On a starry night, Jack and Jill separately meet a fortune teller who predicts they will meet the love of their life before the end of the year, which happens to be only five days away.



White Building(2021)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 3

SAMNANG, 20, faces the demolition of his lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the pressures from family, friends, and neighbors which arise and intersect in this moment of sudden change.



9 Bullets(2022)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A burlesque dancer must go on the run to save a neighbor boy whose life is threatened by her ex-lover.



Bem Bom(2021)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

It is 1979. Four young ladies are hired to form a girl band. They can sing, they shine with their dancing, and they shock the country. They become a big hit. They are DOCE.




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