Dancer movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant dancer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, feel good, humorous, sexy and serious films and TV shows about / with dancing, dancer, dance, ambition, dance scene, dancer's life, artists and showbiz, teenager, music and dance and music plots mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dancer: Flesh and Bone (2015), Footloose (2011), Step Up 2: The Streets (2008), Step Up Revolution (2012), And Then We Danced (2019), Take the Lead (2006), Magic Mike (2012), StreetDance 2 (2012), Center Stage: On Pointe (2016), The Next Step (2013).
Best films
New films
| Kaka Boss (2024) | 7.3 | |
| The Brutalist (2024) | 7.2 | |
| Blitz (2024) | 6.3 | |
| A Halloween Feast (2024) | 4.7 | |
| Mystic Singer (2024) | 4.8 |
List of dancer movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A talented but emotionally troubled dancer runs away to New York City and quickly finds herself immersed in the cutthroat world of professional ballet.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, bleak, erotic, sensual ...
Plot:
ballet, dancer's life, mentally unstable, dancer, incest, brother sister relationship, brother sister incest, ballerina, trauma, eating disorder, sex with brother, dancing ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, pittsburgh
Is relevant?
55K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s ...
Style:
teen, feel good, romantic, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
dancing, dance, small town, teenage love, love and romance, dancer's life, teenage girl, dancer, music, youth, young lovers, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2011, 80s, 21st century
Place:
georgia, usa, southern usa, boston
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the schools hottest dancer, Chase, to form a crew of ...
Style:
romantic, teen, entertaining, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, family friendly, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
dancing, dancer, dance, ballet, dancer's life, dance contest, street dance, hip hop, contests and competitions, music, love and romance, breakdance ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.
Style:
romantic, entertaining, teen, sexy, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
dancing, dance, dancer, dancer's life, teenager, hip hop, music, teenage love, competition, teenage girl, happy ending, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, miami, florida, canada
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Georgia, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Merab has been training since a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is suddenly turned upside down when the charismatic and carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and desire. In ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
dancer, dancing, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, couples, friendship, rivalry, gay romance, obsession, audition, first gay sexual experience ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
georgia, tbilisi, ethiopia, eastern europe, asia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom ...
Style:
sexy, inspirational, teen, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids
Plot:
dancing, teacher, dancer, dance, dancer's life, dedicated educator, high school, teenager, music, respect, teachers and students, tango ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
152K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.
Style:
sexy, teen, homoerotic, entertaining, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
dancing, friendship, nightclub, strip club, dancer, stripper, friends, american dream, male nudity, male stripper, nightlife, party ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A contemporary musical version of the classic Cinderella story in which the servant step daughter hope to compete in a musical competition for a famous pop star.
Style:
modern fairy tale, fairy tale, funny, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
cinderella, cinderella story, teenager, celebrity, dancer, high school hunk, dance, anti hero, contests and competitions, half sister, teenage girl, couples ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, captivating, light ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
dancing, street dance, hip hop, dancer, dance contest, salsa, dance, dancer's life, love and romance, rivalry, ambition, music ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In Center Stage: On Pointe, Jonathan Reeves (Gallagher) is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy, and enlists his his top choreographers Charlie (Radetsky), Cooper (Stiefel) and Tommy (Wormald) ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, psychological, realistic, funny
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dancing, friendship, dancer, ballet, partner, audition, ballerina, modern dance, rivalry, reputation, dance, competition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow the lives of an elite group of young dancers who train at The Next Step Studio.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, sentimental, realistic, mockumentary
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
dancer, dance school, dancing, follow your dream, contests and competitions, dancer's life, teenage life, artists and showbiz, desire for fame, youth, ambition, performer's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Is relevant?
882K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story of Dylan Pettersson, a 23-year-old girl from a small island in the Swedish archipelago with big dancing aspirations.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, captivating, sincere
Plot:
dancer, dancing, lgbt, longing, dancehall girl, dancer's life, talent, woman, dance club, ambition, direction and purpose, daydreamer ...
Place:
eastern europe
Is relevant?
133K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Everyone deserves a chance to follow their dreams, but some people only get one shot. Tyler Gage is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore's tracks and the only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, romantic, teen, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dancing, dance, hip hop, music, love and romance, happy ending, couples, teen romance, dancer, ballet, dance school, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa, san francisco
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A guy who danced with what could be the girl of his dreams at a costume ball only has one hint at her identity: the Zune she left behind as she rushed home in order to make her curfew. And with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of him, he ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, modern fairy tale, sweet, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, kids ...
Plot:
cinderella, cinderella story, high school, teenage love, teenage life, love and romance, pop star, youth, teenage girl, love affair, evil stepmother, dance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
19K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Smash is an American musical drama television series created by playwright Theresa Rebeck and developed by Robert Greenblatt for NBC. Steven Spielberg served as one of the executive producers. The series was broadcast in the US by NBC and produced ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
dancer, showbiz, actor's life, young woman, producer, actor, ambition, desire for fame, follow your dream, lifestyle, rising to stardom, starlet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
99K
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess, a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging theater alive, facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounge's troupe members becoming ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, entertaining, light, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
dancing, performer's life, desire for fame, cabaret, dancer, burlesque, ambition, love and romance, happy ending, sexy woman, nightlife, nightclub ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, iowa, usa, canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl, impulsively marries a man, moves to his sleepy coastal town, and takes an uneasy role at her new mother-in-law's dance school.
Style:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
ballet, dancer, small town life, dance school, lifestyle, starting over, lifestyle change, dancing, small town, women, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, nevada, las vegas
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Tony Manero is a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another, white-suited ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, rough, teen, light ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
dancing, disco, dance, coming of age, dancer, nightclub, friendship, profanity, music, working class, slut, pizza ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, north america, usa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, independent film, powerful ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
communism, interracial romance, dancer, ballet, against the odds, hopes, dancing, ambition, ballerina, promise, immigrant, follow your dream ...
Time:
year 2009, year 1989, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
china, austin texas, texas, asia, usa ...
Is relevant?
151K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, ballet, working class, father son relationship, dancing, audition, gay, childhood, friendship, follow your dream, lgbtq, poverty ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s, year 1985 ...
Place:
england, london, northern england, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sean Odkin loves to dance much to his fathers distain. When the woman he loves cannot return his love Sean goes in search of the only thing that can make him whole again and that is dancing.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
brother brother relationship, dancing, father son relationship, tap dance, working class, love triangle, dancer, friendship between men, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, one night stand, dance, car thief ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1930s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, new jersey, new zealand
Is relevant?
10K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.
Style:
erotic, sexual, suspense, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
lesbian seduction, dancer, male full rear nudity, adopted son, choreographer, lesbian lover, lesbian sex, dancer's life, lesbian, dancing, guilt, women ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
chile
Is relevant?
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324K
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
Style:
romantic, sexy, feel good, sentimental, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
high school, opposites attract, coming of age, dancing, dance, makeover, summer romance, teenage love, love story, first love, teenager, teenage girl ...
Time:
1950s, year 1959, year 1978, 20th century, year 1958 ...
Place:
california, australia, los angeles, bronx new york city, usa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, Serbia, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Director Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
ballet, dancer, gay, politics, cold war, dancing, nudity, painting, desertion, kgb, biopic, male nudity ...
Time:
50s, year 1961, year 2019, 1950s, year 1938
Place:
paris france, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Amalie and Mikael lead their street dance team to the finals in France but tough competition and personal distractions threaten to ruin their dreams.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, dramatic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
dancing, dancer, dance, rivalry, ambition, street dance, dance contest, contests and competitions, dancer's life, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, contest ...
Place:
paris france, france
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sequel to the 2003 dance movie Honey. Recently released from juvenile detention, talented dancer Maria Ramirez finds an outlet for her passion with a new dance crew.
Style:
captivating, feel good, touching, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
dance, dancing, street dance, dancer's life, juvenile delinquency, dance school, music, dancer, hip hop, rise to the top, female protagonist, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, usa
Is relevant?
104K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, dark, sinister, avant garde ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
ritual sacrifice, dead woman, curse, witchcraft, secret, paranormal phenomena, mysterious event, corporal punishment, occult, good versus evil, spiritualism, witch ...
Time:
year 1977, year 1948, 70s, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, italy, ohio, east berlin
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
Style:
cult classic, realistic, serious, stylized, freeze frame ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
dancing, dance, dancer, love triangle, disco, audition, working class, attraction, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, chauvinism, chauvinist ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century, 70s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, new york, usa, north america
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920's and 1930's. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, emotional, serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
african american, performer, dancer, racism, vaudeville, orchestra, showbiz, cabaret, lifestyle, rising to stardom, follow your dream, human spirit ...
Time:
1930s, victorian era, 1920s, 1910s, 70s ...
Place:
france, america, paris france, missouri, usa ...
Is relevant?
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