Mirror Balls And Poppers: Movies Featuring Disco Music
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1. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
R | 118 min | Drama, Music
Anxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco.
Director: John Badham | Stars: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali
Votes: 87,465 | Gross: $94.21M
2. The Apple (1980)
PG | 90 min | Music, Musical, Sci-Fi
In 1994, a young couple enters the world of the music industry, and subsequently the world of drugs.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Catherine Mary Stewart, George Gilmour, Grace Kennedy, Allan Love
Votes: 2,675
3. Thank God It's Friday (1978)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Music
A Friday in the life of the disco club The Zoo, where the staff and clients meet and dance their lives away.
Director: Robert Klane | Stars: Donna Summer, Valerie Landsburg, Terri Nunn, Chick Vennera
Votes: 3,122 | Gross: $7.30M
4. Xanadu (1980)
PG | 96 min | Fantasy, Musical, Romance
A struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.
Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan
Votes: 15,386 | Gross: $22.76M
5. 54 (1998)
R | 93 min | Drama, Music
The famous 1970s New York City nightclub seen and told through the eyes of a young employee.
Director: Mark Christopher | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek, Neve Campbell, Mike Myers
Votes: 34,546 | Gross: $16.57M
6. Can't Stop the Music (1980)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Comedy, Musical
A pseudo autobiography of disco's The Village People.
Director: Nancy Walker | Stars: Ray Simpson, David Hodo, Felipe Rose, Randy Jones
Votes: 4,495 | Gross: $2.00M
7. The Last Days of Disco (1998)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Story of two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting the local disco.
Director: Whit Stillman | Stars: Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman, Mackenzie Astin
Votes: 14,371 | Gross: $2.99M
8. Boogie Nights (1997)
R | 155 min | Drama
Back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzmán
Votes: 281,969 | Gross: $26.40M
9. Roller Boogie (1979)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Skaters band together to keep their roller-disco open.
Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Linda Blair, Jim Bray, Beverly Garland, Roger Perry
Votes: 2,058 | Gross: $13.25M
10. Skatetown U.S.A. (1979)
PG | 98 min | Comedy
At a roller-disco competition, two rivals find themselves becoming good friends while competing for a prize of $1000 in cash.
Director: William A. Levey | Stars: Judy Landers, Gary Hudson, Harlene Winsten, Johnny Pool
Votes: 690
11. Disco Godfather (1979)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Rudy Ray Moore's fourth in a series of cult favorites finds him playing an ex-cop called back into action to stop an angel dust producer. The angel dust hallucinations alone are well worth the price of admission!
Director: J. Robert Wagoner | Stars: Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, Jimmy Lynch, Jerry Jones
Votes: 1,789
12. Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
R | 104 min | Mystery, Thriller
A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Rene Auberjonois
Votes: 12,086 | Gross: $20.00M
13. Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
R | 136 min | Drama
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively extreme sexual encounters.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton
Votes: 8,500 | Gross: $16.90M
14. Disco (2008)
103 min | Comedy, Music
Didier Travolta (Franck Dubosc) is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while in Britain. The mother of his son refuses to... See full summary »
Director: Fabien Onteniente | Stars: Franck Dubosc, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu, Samuel Le Bihan
Votes: 1,665
15. Prom Night (1980)
R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
At a high-school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin
Votes: 20,917 | Gross: $14.80M
16. Disco Pigs (2001)
TV-MA | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Pig and Runt - born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by blood.
Director: Kirsten Sheridan | Stars: Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Sarah Gallagher, Charles Bark
Votes: 5,209
17. Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms (2008)
PG | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Two lowly earthworms, Gloria and Barry, decide to make the world's greatest disco band which helps them rise from the bottom of the food chain to stardom proving that earthworms can boogie too.
Directors: Thomas Borch Nielsen, Tonni Zinck | Stars: Peter Frödin, Trine Dyrholm, Lars Hjortshøj, Troels Lyby
Votes: 1,123
18. Car Wash (1976)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A comedic take on the daily life of car-wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, and tribulations, and meeting some eccentric customers along the way.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Richard Pryor, Franklyn Ajaye, Sully Boyar, Richard Brestoff
Votes: 8,194
19. Muriel's Wedding (1994)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
Director: P.J. Hogan | Stars: Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter, Sophie Lee
Votes: 41,718 | Gross: $15.19M
20. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Music
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Director: Stephan Elliott | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Rebel Penfold-Russell
Votes: 55,012 | Gross: $11.22M
21. Strip Jack Naked: Nighthawks II (1991)
Unrated | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Ron Peck talks about his experiences of growing up as a gay man, the attitudes to homosexuality in Britain, and his journey towards making his film Nighthawks (1978).
Director: Ron Peck | Stars: Ron Peck, John Brown, John Daimon, Nick Bolton
Votes: 124
22. The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976 TV Special)
Not Rated | 60 min | Comedy
Witchipoo and the Wicked Witch of the West give Paul Lynde three wishes for Halloween. KISS performs three songs. Florence Henderson sings a disco version of "That Old Black Magic."
Director: Sid Smith | Stars: Paul Lynde, Tim Conway, Roz Kelly, Margaret Hamilton
Votes: 434
23. Tony Manero (2008)
TV-MA | 97 min | Drama, Music
A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Héctor Morales, Paola Lattus
Votes: 4,557
24. Groove (2000)
R | 86 min | Drama, Music
An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.
Director: Greg Harrison | Stars: Chris Ferreira, Mackenzie Firgens, Elizabeth Sun, Steve Van Wormer
Votes: 4,527 | Gross: $1.11M
25. Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
A musician from Montana finds work and other things at The Continental Baths in New York City, 1974.
Director: David Buckley | Stars: Robert Aberdeen, Ellen Sheppard, Don Scotti, Steve Ostrow
Votes: 513
26. The Stud (1978)
R | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, the hobo, and partying.
Director: Quentin Masters | Stars: Joan Collins, Oliver Tobias, Sue Lloyd, Mark Burns
Votes: 1,152
27. Cruising (1980)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police officer goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox
Votes: 28,019 | Gross: $19.80M
28. The Secret Disco Revolution (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Comedy, History
A documentary on the disco era featuring interview with its key musicians.
Director: Jamie Kastner | Stars: Peter Keleghan, Julia Hladkowicz, Kito Lightbourne, Reg Taylor
Votes: 291
29. The Best of Village People (1993 Video)
73 min | Music
Including In The Navy, Macho Man and the original versions of Y.M.C.A. and Go West.
Stars: Alex Briley, David Hodo, Glenn Hughes, Randy Jones
Votes: 28
30. Discopathe (2013)
Not Rated | 81 min | Crime, Fantasy, Horror
The mid-70's: a timid young New Yorker leads an uneventful life until he is fatefully exposed to the pulsating rhythms of a brand-new genre of music: disco. Unable to control his murderous ... See full summary »
Director: Renaud Gauthier | Stars: Jérémie Earp, Sandrine Bisson, Ivan Freud, Ingrid Falaise
Votes: 756
31. The Music Machine (1979)
93 min | Drama, Music
Lovely live venue The Music Machine in Camden provides the glitzy glitter-ball backdrop for this hugely entertaining North London disco dance contest drama.
Director: Ian Sharp | Stars: Gerry Sundquist, David Easter, Michael Feast, Ferdy Mayne
Votes: 52
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