Dance performance movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant dance performance movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, serious, humorous, feel good, realistic and entertaining films and TV shows about / with dance performance, dancing, dancer, love, dance, father daughter relationship, rivalry, dance scene, singer and singing plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dance performance: Saturday Night Fever (1977), Suspiria (2018), Zombieland Saga (2018), You Got Served (2004), Dirty Dancing (1987), Bedways (2010), Lakshmi (2018), HaNaYaMaTa (2014), Dance-Off (2014), Dirty Dancing (2017).

List of dance performance movies

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Saturday Night Fever (1977)
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, light, serious ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: dancing, disco, dance, nightclub, working class, dancer, music, love, dysfunctional family, slut, coming of age, slutty attitude ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa
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 6.7
 91K
Suspiria (2018)
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, dark, suspenseful, twisted, scary ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: good versus evil, ritual sacrifice, dead woman, witchcraft, mysterious event, paranormal phenomena, telepathy, curse, occult, spiritualism, abuse of power, corporal punishment ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, year 1943, year 1948, post world war two
Place: berlin germany, italy, west berlin west germany, east berlin, ohio
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Zombieland Saga (2018)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: A typical morning. The usual music. Their normal lives. The peace these seven girls experience will suddenly be destroyed. By the living dead... zombies. A reality that they never wanted a part of, an amazing and terrifying zombie world. They all ...
Style: anime, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, cynical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: training, zombie, dance performance, survivor, dark humor, walking dead, chaos, music band, living dead, escapades, dead girl, back from the dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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 3.8
 29K
You Got Served (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At Mr. Rad's Warehouse, the best hip-hop crews in Los Angeles compete for money and respect. But when a suburban crew crashes the party, stealing their dancers - and their moves - two warring friends have to pull together to represent the ...
Style: intense, stylized, humorous, hood, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: hip hop, dancing, dance, street dance, breakdance, competition, friendship, music, betrayal, rivalry, follow your dream, dance performance ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 7.0
 254K
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer – and unexpectedly falling in love.
Style: feel good, sexy, sentimental, touching, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: love story, dancing, coming of age, couples, forbidden love, summer, summer romance, youth, love and romance, fall in love, dance, unlikely couple ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1963, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, new york state
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 4.0
 1K
Bedways (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A huge, run-down apartment in Berlin Mitte. Two women and a man, rehearsals for a movie about love and sex, that will never be shot. Acting and reality mingle into a dangerous melange. Berlin is the shelter, love is impossible, flesh is the law.
Style: disturbing, experimental, touching, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot: adult filmmaking, eroticism, coitus, orgasm, sexual desire, fondling, lust, dance performance, female nudity, nudity, movie business, fall in love ...
Place: germany, berlin germany
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 6.6
 778
Lakshmi (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A school student, who is passionate about dance, sets out to join a national-level competition without her mother’s knowledge.
Style: entertaining, dramatic, captivating, exciting
Plot: female protagonist, child, dance performance, dance, dancing, dream come true, contests and competitions, bigger dreams, dreaming, contest, young woman, dream ...
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 7.2
 92
HaNaYaMaTa (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Naru is a high school girl who is average in every way. She loves fairy tale heroines, though she’s never had the courage to escape her ordinary life. One day, she sees Hannah, a transfer student, dancing in the moonlit and becomes inspired to ...
Style: anime, seinen, humorous, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: school club, friendship, school, dance performance, high school life, dancing, harem, love, boy girl friendship, everyday life, friends, love and romance ...
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 4.5
 884
Dance-Off (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: DANCE-OFF is a tongue-in-cheek family comedy set in the world of competition dancing starring talented dancers and choreographers from TV’s “So You Think You Can Dance!” Two rival studios pick their stars Jasmine and Brandon to compete ...
Style: captivating, inspirational, sincere, serious, disturbing
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dance, dancing, dancehall girl, fight, competition, jealousy, against the odds, love, rise to the top, dancer's life, relationship problems, dance performance ...
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Dirty Dancing (2017)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, and nothing is ever the same for anyone in the Houseman family. Not only are the ...
Style: romantic, entertaining, light, sweet, teen
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, dancer's life, fall in love, love story, forbidden love, adaptation, sister sister relationship, culture clash, secret love, female protagonist, dance performance, unlikely couple ...
Time: 60s
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Late World with Zach (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Late World with Zach was a television show on VH1 during the spring of 2002, starring Zach Galifianakis who appeared without his now-trademark beard for most of the show's run. Late World's theme song was Frank Black's "Los ...
Style: entertaining, satirical, semi serious, humorous, funny ...
Plot: talk show, celebrity, satire, celebrity interview, sketch, music, dance performance, humour
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 4.4
 224
To the Beat! (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: To the Beat follows 14-year-old twins Mia and Mackie Castillo - dancers since they were toddlers. Beginning at just three years old, that's been their one true passion. They support each other through competitions and rehearsals, even though ...
Style: satirical, thrilling, captivating, semi serious, feel good
Plot: teenage girl, female protagonist, competition, teenage protagonist, pop star, female friendship, fame, music, pop culture, competitor, girlfriend, pop music ...
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 3.7
 164
Next Level (2019)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Teens compete for best performer of the summer at Next Level, a specialized dance/hip-hop/songwriting performing arts program.
Style: entertaining, funny, captivating, exciting, light
Plot: summer, competition, dancing, public speaking, contests and competitions, hip hop, dance, music, dance performance, pop music
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 7.9
 7K
Fosse/Verdon (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 402 min.
TV show
Story: The story of the romantic and creative partnership between Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. He was a filmmaker and one of theater's most influential choreographers and directors; she was the greatest Broadway dancer of all time. Together, they ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, interesting
Plot: dancing, dancer, dancehall girl, biopic, choreographer, infidelity, theatre director, choreography, actress, backstage, dancer's life, relationship vs career ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century
Place: syria, new york
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 5.8
 1K
Break (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Lucie, a young dancer suffers an accident. When she wakes up from a coma, she and her partner start training for a dance show. On the way, she starts looking for her estranged father, a path that might lead her to life-changing love.
Style: sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
Plot: dancing, dancehall girl, dance contest, love story, waking up from a coma, couple relations, love and romance, father daughter relationship, dance performance, dancer's life, father daughter estrangement, male female relationship ...
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Enchanted Christmas (2017)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Weeks before Christmas, interior designer Laura is sent to her hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico to remodel a landmark hotel. As Laura is kept busy with the renovations, her 8-year-old daughter Nicole is introduced to the art of salsa dancing at a ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas romance, second chance, male female relationship, starting over, dancing, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, hotel, love and romance, dancer, dance performance ...
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 7.1
 123
Mammame (1986)
Genre: Fantasy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 65 min.
Story: A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.
Style: silent
Plot: dance performance, modern dance, choreography, dance, ballet, beach, no dialogue
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their ...
Style: gothic, psychological, psychological thriller, psychological horror, scary ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mental illness, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, jealousy, sibling rivalry, child star, filmmaking, aging, dysfunctional family, actress, violence, fame ...
Time: 20th century, year 1935, year 1917, 1930s, 1910s ...
Place: los angeles, america, california, usa
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We Are Travellers on the Path of Love (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Rahul Malhotra (Aamir Khan) is the manager of the heavily in debt family business. He is also the guardian of his dead sister's mischievous kids. Rahul hires Vaijayanti (Juhi Chawla) as governess. Vaijayanti is a runaway from home as she does ...
Style: romantic, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: inheritance, uncle niece relationship, wedding, uncle nephew relationship, father daughter relationship, love, guardian, factory, businessman, prank, love triangle, family business ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, india
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The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman ...
Style: mind bending, philosophical, romantic, surreal, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: destiny, politics, alternate reality, love story, power of love, fall in love, fictional reality, changing the past or future, twists and turns, creator, mind control, forbidden love ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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 7.0
 92K
Pearl (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations and repressions ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, female protagonist, farm, murder, mental illness, world war one, domineering mother, female serial killer, rural setting, murder confession, farmhouse, female nudity ...
Time: 1910s, 2020s, year 1918, 20th century
Place: texas, europe
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 6.5
 3K
The Dancer (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: France, Belgium, Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Nothing in her background destined Loïe Fuller from the American Midwest to become a Belle Epoque icon, even less a dancer at the Paris Opera. Even at the risk of destroying her back and burning her eyes with the stage lights, she will never falter ...
Style: melancholic, colorful, factual, suspense, erotic ...
Plot: dancing, female nudity, lesbian, love, sex scene, theater, flashback, bohemian life, lgbt, dancer's life, death of father, performer's life ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place: paris france, new york, brooklyn new york city, france
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War Dancing - Dance to Win (1989)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: War Dancing tells the tale of Slammer, a small-time hood whose life changes when he is allowed to take part in a music video shoot. He begins to feel that a career in music might get him on the right track, but the video's choreographer ...
Style: independent film
Plot: dancing, graffiti, dance performance, music competition, dance contest, rivalry, dancer, love, dance school, competition, street gang, school dance
Place: los angeles
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 3.0
 35K
Troll 2 (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young child is terrified to discover that a planned family trip is to be haunted by vile plant-eating monsters out of his worst nightmare...
Style: cult classic, scary, humorous, funny, retro ...
Audience: kids
Plot: witch, small town, little creatures, sexual innuendo, person on fire, exploitation, creature, camp, youth, destiny, seduction, child in peril ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
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 6.6
 25K
Fame (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts
Style: inspirational, realistic, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: music, high school, dancing, teenager, teacher, rehearsal, gay, life philosophy, high school life, dysfunctional family, unlikely friendships, audition ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
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For a Lost Soldier (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of a romantic relationship between a Canadian soldier and a child set in the Netherlands near the end of WWII. Told in flashback from the present day, the child, now a man, is still seeking his lost soldier.
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, world war two, pedophilia, man boy relationship, soldier, forbidden love, intergenerational friendship, boy, sexual awakening, homosexual, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, year 1945
Place: netherlands, europe, germany, holland
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The Nutcracker (American Ballet Theatre) (1977)
Genre: Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critcally acclaimed Emmy nominated production. The thisspectacular performance is danced by the magnificent team of Baryshnikov, one of the greatest classical dancers of the century, and ...
Style: cute, light hearted, light, sweet
Plot: christmas, nutcracker, opera, dancing, choreography, broadway, magical, ballet, classical music, dance performance, reality versus fantasy, prince ...
Is relevant ?
 4.8
 15K
Love Wrecked (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: On a Caribbean cruise, Jenny (Bynes) is marooned on a beach with her rock and roll idol. Deliriously in love with the idea of time alone with him, she manages to hide the fact that they're a stone's throw away from their resort.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, date night, chick flick
Plot: resort, beach, teenage love, lifeguard, best friends in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, shipwreck, stranded, love triangle, marooned, teenage girl, lie ...
Time: year 2005
Place: caribbean
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Holidays by the Sea (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.
Style: contemplative, not serious, humorous, funny, slapstick ...
Plot: nudism, beach, sex, social differences, naturist, silly humor, destiny, resort, couples, disorder, adultery, vacation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, brittany
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Wonderful World (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ben Singer (Matthew Broderick) is a failed childrens folk singer, a career proofreader, a less-than-extraordinary weekend dad, and perhaps the most negative man alive. Floundering in all aspects of his life, Ben's only comfort comes from ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: down on your luck, life is a bitch, parents and children, fall in love, society, chess, interracial relations, father daughter estrangement, ex husband ex wife relationship, existentialism, interracial couple, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: senegal, usa, africa
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