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by road-traveled | created - 16 Dec 2012 | updated - 11 Nov 2016 | PublicMemorable dance scenes, or entire film. Interesting costumes, locations, cinematography. All dance, worldwide. Not found on IMDb: Tap Dance History DVD, with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Will Mahoney, Rubberneck Holmes, Juanita Pitts, many more. http://www.amazon.com/TAP-DANCE-HISTORY-Vaudeville-Film/dp/B004JBEE4E/ref=cm_wl_huc_item. -9-. 5/14
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101.
The Afternoon Play (2003– )
Episode:
Turkish Delight
(2003)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A bored housewife finds glamour and excitment when she starts a job belly-dancing in a Turkish restaurant.
Director: Adrian Bean | Stars: Denise Welch, Tim Dantay, Glynis Barber, Rae Baker
Votes: 11
102. Romance & Cigarettes (2005)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
This down-and-dirty musical set in the world of working-class New York tells the story of a husband's journey into infidelity and redemption when he must choose between his seductive mistress and his beleaguered wife.
Director: John Turturro | Stars: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 12,841 | Gross: $0.54M
103. Whatever Lola Wants (2007)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
A New York postal worker travels to Egypt to take belly dancing lessons from a legendary instructor.
Director: Nabil Ayouch | Stars: Laura Ramsey, Assaad Bouab, Carmen Lebbos, Hichem Rostom
Votes: 1,310
104. Ever Since Eve (1937)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
Lecherous bosses make it difficult for an attractive secretary to keep jobs, so she decides to appear considerably more homely in hopes of holding onto work.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh, Patsy Kelly
Votes: 1,577
Hula
105. Pardon My Sarong (1942)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce, Robert Paige
Votes: 2,405
Hula
106. Guests of the Nation (1981 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, War
Irish insurgents guard their British prisoners-of-war in a remote farmstead. Gradually the opposing soldiers come to respect, even like each other. This greatly worries Frank Callahan, the ... See full summary »
Director: John J. Desmond | Stars: Frank Converse, Richard Cottrell, Charlie Stavola, Nesbitt Blaisdell
Votes: 11
Jig
107. Bootmen (2000)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Charismatic tap dancing Sean tries to find a way out of working at the steel mill. When failure brings him home he starts his own dance group wearing hardhats. He must then find inspiration in the steel mill he once tried to escape.
Director: Dein Perry | Stars: Vaughan Sheffield, Christian Patterson, Lisa Perry, Sam Worthington
Votes: 2,478 | Gross: $0.02M
108. Billy Elliot (2000)
R | 110 min | Drama, Music
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven
Votes: 142,870 | Gross: $22.00M
Step Dance Tap Ballet
109. The Full Monty (1997)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.
Director: Peter Cattaneo | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, Wim Snape
Votes: 114,138 | Gross: $45.95M
110. Anjô-ke no butôkai (1947)
89 min | Drama
After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The ... See full summary »
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Yumeko Aizome, Osamu Takizawa, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 443
Ballroom dance
111. The Artist (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.
Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell
Votes: 248,647 | Gross: $44.67M
112. Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Laura Henderson (Dame Judi Dench) buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, amongst other things, its all-nude revues.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Guest, Will Young
Votes: 16,454 | Gross: $11.03M
113. The Keys to the House (2004)
PG | 111 min | Drama
Meeting his disabled son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Andrea Rossi, Charlotte Rampling, Alla Faerovich
Votes: 2,472
114. The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (1945)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Paul Bernard, María Casares, Elina Labourdette, Lucienne Bogaert
Votes: 4,840
115. Honolulu (1939)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, George Burns, Gracie Allen
Votes: 760
116. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
Not Rated | 129 min | Comedy, Drama
A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée | Stars: Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx, Émile Vallée
Votes: 34,132
117. Celtic Tiger (2006 Video)
Drama
Michael Flatley is the internationally acclaimed master of dance. In 2005 his unrivalled skill and artistry combined in an epic that fused the spirit and history of Ireland with dance and music.
Director: David Mallet | Star: Michael Flatley
Votes: 49
118.
A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002)
Episode:
The Silent Speaker: Part 2
(2002)
TV-PG | Action, Drama, Mystery
Suspects abound during post WWII America, as Wolfe and Goodwin are busy sifting through the mess known as The Bureau of Price Regulations because its leader was found murdered. No one, not even the FBI, nor the NIA, is above suspicion.
Director: Michael Jaffe | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Maury Chaykin, Debra Monk, Colin Fox
Votes: 104
119.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Annie MacGregor Story
(1958)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
The MacGregor clan decides to come to America and start a new life. The wagon trains going to California have had a hard time dealing with their different customs. Can Major Adams' be any different?
Director: Mark Stevens | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Jeannie Carson, Richard Long
Votes: 95
120. Waterloo (I) (1970)
G | 123 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 12,636 | Gross: $3.05M
1815 Waltz Highland fling English Country dance
121. I Is a Long Memoried Woman (1990)
50 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
This award winning documentary charts the journey of the African woman from slavery in the caribbean to slavery, through music dance and poetry.
Director: Frances-Anne Solomon | Stars: Adjoa Andoh, Leonie Forbes
Votes: 22
122. Nora (2008)
35 min | Short, Biography, Drama
"Nora" is based on true stories of the dancer Nora Chipaumire, who was born in Zimbabwe in 1965. In the film, Nora returns to the landscape of her childhood and takes a journey through some... See full summary »
Directors: David Hinton, Alla Kovgan | Stars: Nora Chipaumire, Souleymane Badolo
Votes: 31
123. Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
Romantic misunderstandings abound when spouses suspect each other of being unfaithful, and a nightclub singer takes a cruise under a false identity.
Directors: Michael Curtiz, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Doris Day, Don DeFore
Votes: 2,739
Calypso
124. Lola (1961)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott
Votes: 7,530
125. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin
Votes: 12,037 | Gross: $0.09M
126. Stormy Weather (1943)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra, Katherine Dunham and Her Troupe
Votes: 2,889
127.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About
(2009)
TV-14 | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz was born in New York on October 11, 1918 and raised in Weehawken, New Jersey. Deprived of a college education by the Depression, he began his career as a dancer in the experimental troupe of Gluck Sandor.
Director: Judy Kinberg | Stars: Ib Andersen, William Archibald, Fred Astaire, Mikhail Baryshnikov
Votes: 110
128. He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983)
51 min | Documentary, Family
Jacques d'Amboise, a noted former American ballet star who had dancing roles in such films as Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Carousel (1956), and who later became a New York dancing instructor.
Director: Emile Ardolino | Stars: Jacques d'Amboise, Judy Collins, Kevin Kline, Tom McCaffrey
Votes: 150
129. Ballet Boys (2014)
75 min | Documentary, Sport
Ballet Boys takes you through disappointments, victories, forging of friendship, first loves, doubt, faith, growing apart from each other, finding your own way and own ambitions, all mixed with the beautiful expression of ballet.
Director: Kenneth Elvebakk | Stars: Lukas Bjørneboe Brændsrød, Syvert Lorenz Garcia, Torgeir Lund
Votes: 320
130. At the Jazz Band Ball (2000 Video)
60 min | Music
Stars: Paul Whiteman and Orchestra, Charlie Wellman
Votes: 7
Harlem Lindy Hoppers Bill Robinson, 1932. Tessie Smith and her Darktown Strutters.
131. Rize (2005)
PG-13 | 86 min | Documentary, Music
Rize chronicles a dance movement that rises out of South Central Los Angeles with roots in clowning and street youth culture.
Director: David LaChapelle | Stars: Tommy the Clown, Larry Berry, Dragon, Jassy Marie
Votes: 3,348 | Gross: $3.28M
Clowning, krumping dance expression. Face art and Dance costumes. South Central Los Angeles.
132. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 299,423 | Gross: $57.39M
133. Dance (I) (2013)
6 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
It's a real story. One dancing room,one girl,life blooms while dancing.
Director: Jing Zhang | Stars: Dai Ailian Tai, Xiaoli Zhan
134. Le nozze di Figaro (1993 TV Movie)
168 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Director: Olivier Mille | Stars: Rodney Gilfry, Hillevi Martinpelto, Bryn Terfel, Alison Hagley
Votes: 56
135. Yo no sé qué me han hecho tus ojos (2003)
65 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary on the life of Ada Falcón, one of the great legends of Argentine tango history. After seventy years of silence she finally tells her story.
Directors: Lorena Muñoz, Sergio Wolf | Stars: Ada Falcon, Miguel Ciacci, Aníbal Ford, Rolando Goyaud
Votes: 127
136. Songs Unwritten: A Tap Dancer Remembered (1989 Video)
Documentary
Director: David Wadsworth | Stars: Leon Collins, Dianne Walker, Eric Bruno Borgman, Janet Borgman
Votes: 14
137. American Tap (2018)
90 min | Documentary
A documentary film examining tap dancing and its roots in American cultural history.
Director: Mark Wilkinson | Stars: James Seawood, Debbie Allen, Dulé Hill, Cornel West
Votes: 17
138. Juba! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance (2000 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Allan Siegel | Stars: Lane Alexander, Ernest Brown, Michael Conley, Michelle Dorrance
139.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Tap Dance in America
(1989)
TV-G | Music, Musical
Director: Don Mischer | Stars: Gregory Hines, Neil Applebaum, Hinton Battle, Ira Bernstein
Votes: 26
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