Tango, tap, jig, swing, twist, hula
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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1. Latcho Drom (1993)
103 min | Documentary, Music
The journey of the Romany people told through musicians and dancers of India, Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and Spain.
Director: Tony Gatlif | Star: La Caita
Votes: 2,141 | Gross: $1.03M
2. Argentina (2015)
85 min | Documentary, Music, Musical
Poetic, riveting and moving, Argentina explores the heart of traditional Argentine folklore and its stunning musical heritage.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Pedro Aznar, Juan Falú, Marian Farías Gómez, Gabo Ferro
Votes: 209 | Gross: $0.01M
3. Riverdance: Live à l'Arena de Genève (2001 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 115 min | Documentary, Music
The thrilling Riverdance show live from Geneva.
Director: John McColgan | Stars: Brendán de Gallaí, Joanne Doyle, Yolanda González Sobrado, Anthony Ferguson
Votes: 58
4. The Golden Apple: Bellydance Stars of New York (2005 Video)
55 min | Musical
The Golden Apple features original belly dance choreographies and improvisations by three dedicated artists and stars of the New York City belly dance scene Jenna, Blanca, and Neon and a ... See full summary »
5. Hula (1927)
64 min | Drama, Romance
The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Clara Bow, Clive Brook, Arlette Marchal, Arnold Kent
Votes: 298 | Gross: $0.44M
6. French Cancan (1955)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
This comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it tells the story of a theater producer who turns a humble washerwoman into a star at the Moulin Rouge.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix, Anna Amendola
Votes: 4,449
7. Ballets Russes (2005)
Not Rated | 118 min | Documentary, History, Music
Ballets Russes is an intimate portrait of a group of pioneering artists -- now in their 70s, 80s and 90s -- who gave birth to modern ballet.
Directors: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine | Stars: Irina Baronova, Kenneth Kynt Bryan, Yvonne Chouteau, Yvonne Craig
Votes: 698 | Gross: $0.82M
8. Tap (1989)
PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Just released from prison, Max Washington must decide which of his previous professions to return to: burglary or tap-dancing.
Director: Nick Castle | Stars: Gregory Hines, Suzzanne Douglas, Sammy Davis Jr., Savion Glover
Votes: 1,801 | Gross: $9.11M
Tap dancers: Briggs, Condos, Slyde, Rico, Duncan, Nicholas, Hines, Davis, Dianne Walker, Glover, Sims, LeTAng, more 2/14
9. Tango (1998)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Musical
Mario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecilia Narova, Mía Maestro, Juan Carlos Copes
Votes: 3,070 | Gross: $1.69M
Buenos Aires, Argentina
10. Strictly Ballroom (1992)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Pat Thomson
Votes: 29,379 | Gross: $11.74M
Australia
11. Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975 TV Movie)
98 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A lonely widow and a postman find romance late in life at the local dance hall.
Director: Sam O'Steen | Stars: Maureen Stapleton, Charles Durning, Michael Brandon, Michael Strong
Votes: 451
12. Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)
PG | 105 min | Documentary, Family, Music
The students of several New York City elementary schools learn ballroom dancing and compete in a city wide dance competition.
Director: Marilyn Agrelo | Stars: Heather Berman, Emma Therese Biegacki, Eva Carrozza, Evangelina Carrozzo
Votes: 3,551 | Gross: $8.12M
2/14 New York City. Ballroom dancing, public schools.
13. Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey (2002)
40 min | Short, Documentary
Directors: Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas | Stars: Miles Crawford, Ameenah Kaplan, Keith Middleton
Votes: 239 | Gross: $10.09M
Percussion groups around the world.
14. Tap Dogs (1996 Video)
73 min | Music
Tap Dogs, the all-male Australian dance troupe, have taken the world by storm becoming an international sensation with their sell out tour... leaving packed audiences gasping and howling ... See full summary »
Director: Aubrey Powell | Stars: Dein Perry, Kevin Coyne, Darren Disney, Drew Kaluski
Votes: 71
15. War Dance (2007)
PG-13 | 105 min | Documentary, Music, War
Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.
Directors: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix | Stars: Dominic, Nancy, Rose, Jane Adong
Votes: 1,199 | Gross: $0.11M
Uganda dance competition
16. Riverdance: The Show (1995)
71 min | Music
Riverdance is rooted in a three-part suite of baroque-influenced traditional music called Timedance composed, recorded and performed for the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest, which was hosted by Ireland.
Director: John McColgan | Stars: Michael Flatley, Jean Butler, Anúna, Brendán de Gallaí
Votes: 643
17. Twist (1992)
PG | 74 min | Documentary, History, Music
The history of post-World War II popular dance up to the mid-sixties is explored with the focus being on the Twist.
Director: Ron Mann | Stars: Cholly Atkins, Hank Ballard, Betty Begg, Chubby Checker
Votes: 156
18. Moulin Rouge (1952)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Director: John Huston | Stars: José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Claude Nollier
Votes: 6,515 | Gross: $11.81M
19.
The Wonder Years (1988–1993)
Episode:
Square Dance
(1989)
TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The gym class is engaging in square-dancing, and Kevin is paired up with Margaret Farquhar, the strangest girl in 7th grade. While Margaret enjoys spending time with Kevin, her presence makes Kevin wary of his junior-high image.
Director: Tom Moore | Stars: Fred Savage, Dan Lauria, Alley Mills, Olivia d'Abo
Votes: 434
Square Dancing as part of a gym class. Junior-high school.
20. Zenne Dancer (2011)
104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A feature film about an unusual trio: Daniel, a German photo-journalist in Istanbul without much knowledge about Turkish values. Can, a flamboyant, out and proud male belly dancer with lots... See full summary »
Directors: Caner Alper, Mehmet Binay | Stars: Kerem Can, Giovanni Arvaneh, Erkan Avci, Tilbe Saran
Votes: 2,864
Turkish belly dancing, Turkey.
21. Swing (I) (2002)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Max is on holiday at his grandmother's place in the Elzas in France. He's fascinated by the guitar playing of gypsy Miraldo. In exchange for writing letters to the social security ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Gatlif | Stars: Oscar Copp, Lou Rech, Tchavolo Schmitt, Mandino Reinhardt
Votes: 1,073
Manouche gypsy music from the Alsace, France region.
22. Swing Your Partner (I) (1943)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Set in a cheese factory and a radio station, Caroline Bird (Esther Dale), cheese factory owner and radio program sponsor, sets out to solve a mysterious crime by disguising herself and her ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Myrtle Wiseman, Scotty Wiseman, Barbara Jo Allen, Dale Evans
Votes: 16
Square Dancing, country music. Tenessee.
23. Feet of Flames (1998 Video)
114 min | Documentary, Music
Feet of Flames grew out of Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance, which itself sprung from the original dance concert Riverdance in which Michael was a performer. Each new incarnation was an ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Flatley, David Mallet | Stars: Michael Flatley, Bernadette Flynn, Leigh Anne McKenna, Daire Nolan
Votes: 493
24. Uzbek National Dancers (1953)
Documentary, Short, Music
Director: Kamil Yarmatov | Stars: Akilov, Galia Ismailova, Rozia Karimova, Mukaram Turgumbayeva
Russian folk dancing
25. The Company (2003)
PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A young ballet dancer is poised to become the principal performer in a group of ballet dancers.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Neve Campbell, James Franco, Malcolm McDowell, Barbara E. Robertson
Votes: 6,842 | Gross: $2.28M
Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. Tap dance
26. The Bellydancers of Cairo (2006)
73 min | Documentary
An in depth look into the lives of Egypts belly dancers. Celebrated and loved at weddings and special events, they are looked upon as prostitutes and despised - more and more in an increasingly conservative and religious society.
Director: Natasha Senkovich | Stars: Dina, Nagwa Fouad, Dua Hegazi, Lucy
Votes: 8
27. Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther, Dorothy Sebastian
Votes: 1,963 | Gross: $0.76M
A flapper dancing the Charleston at a large mansion party.
28. Dreamgirls (2006)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Beyoncé, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover
Votes: 77,243 | Gross: $103.37M
29. Romeo and Juliet (1966)
124 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Desmond Doyle
Votes: 176
Margot Foteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.
30. Black Orpheus (1959)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
Director: Marcel Camus | Stars: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia
Votes: 12,234
31. Let's Make Love (1960)
Not Rated | 119 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan
Votes: 8,020 | Gross: $6.54M
Marilyn Monroe dancing
32. The Leopard (1963)
PG | 186 min | Drama, History
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 28,777
Italian ball
33. Cobra Verde (1987)
Not Rated | 111 min | Adventure, Drama
During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy, Salvatore Basile
Votes: 8,414
34. Been Rich All My Life (2006)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary
Five sassy, tap dancing women aged 84 - 96. Meet the "Silver Belles".
Director: Heather MacDonald | Stars: Marion Coles, Elaine Ellis, Cleo Hayes, Fay Ray
Votes: 100 | Gross: $0.03M
35. The Crazy Stranger (1997)
Unrated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A man is looking for a singer he had heard on cassette. He finds much more.
Director: Tony Gatlif | Stars: Romain Duris, Rona Hartner, Izidor Serban, Ovidiu Balan
Votes: 8,359 | Gross: $0.67M
36. Martha Graham: An American Original in Performance (1957)
90 min | Documentary
A documentary containing three historic performances in the world of dance: (1) "A Dancer's World" demonstrates the challenge and beauty of expression through movement, dance and ballet. (2... See full summary »
Director: Peter Glushanok | Stars: Martha Graham, Yuriko, Helen McGehee, Gene McDonald
Votes: 42
I have the Criterion collection, couldn't find on IMDb.
37. The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Not Rated | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Vesa Vierikko
Votes: 11,600
38. Me You Them (2000)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Director: Andrucha Waddington | Stars: Regina Casé, Lima Duarte, Stênio Garcia, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Votes: 1,869 | Gross: $0.32M
39. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Romance, War
After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest
Votes: 7,936
40. Beau Travail (1999)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama, War
An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet
Votes: 14,508 | Gross: $0.25M
41. Pie in the Sky (1995)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
A whimsical saga of a young man whose two life-consuming passions are unraveling traffic gridlock and an avant-garde dancer. A romantic comedy.
Director: Bryan Gordon | Stars: Josh Charles, Anne Heche, John Goodman, Christine Lahti
Votes: 901
42. The Red Shoes (1948)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann
Votes: 39,105 | Gross: $10.90M
43. Russian Ark (2002)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky
Votes: 21,797 | Gross: $0.04M
44. A Sunday in the Country (1984)
G | 90 min | Drama
An elderly painter whose son visits with his family on the weekends, is also surprised by a visit from his still-single daughter.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Sabine Azéma, Geneviève Mnich
Votes: 3,128 | Gross: $2.41M
France
45. A Tribute to Alvin Ailey (1990 TV Movie)
107 min | Music
Director: Thomas Grimm | Stars: Marilyn Banks, Gary Deloatch, Judith Jamison
Votes: 8
Alvin Ailey dance.
46. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Votes: 79,845
Elizabeth Taylor dancing.
47. Zelary (2003)
R | 150 min | Drama, Romance, War
A nurse is part of the resistance in 1940s Czech Republic. She is discovered and must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.
Director: Ondrej Trojan | Stars: Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi, Ivan Trojan, Jaroslava Adamová
Votes: 3,747 | Gross: $0.33M
48. The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America (2012)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary on drummer/bandleader Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, and Harlem's Savoy Ballroom.
Director: Jeff Kaufman | Stars: Van Alexander, Bruce Barnes, Louie Bellson, Rocky Carroll
Votes: 33
49.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Balanchine - Master of The Dance
(2004)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
The man who would one day rank among the greatest choreographers in the history of ballet came to the United States in late 1933 following an early career throughout Europe.
Votes: 67
50. The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
PG-13 | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters--an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire--to rescue him.
Director: Sylvain Chomet | Stars: Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin, Monica Viegas
Votes: 57,047 | Gross: $7.00M
51. Alice in Wonderland (1966 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange Wonderland.
Director: Jonathan Miller | Stars: Anne-Marie Mallik, Freda Dowie, Jo Maxwell Muller, Wilfrid Brambell
Votes: 969
52. Danzón (1991)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama
Julia (Rojo) is a phone operator in Mexico City who divides her time between her job, her daughter and the danzon: a cuban dance very popular in Mexico and Central America. Every wednesday ... See full summary »
Director: María Novaro | Stars: María Rojo, Carmen Salinas, Tito Vasconcelos, Margarita Isabel
Votes: 686 | Gross: $0.36M
53. Staying On (1980 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Sequel to The Jewel in the Crown: A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British Raj in the 1940s.
Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson, Saeed Jaffrey, Pearl Padamsee
Votes: 142
Celia turns on some music and dances a lovely dance by herself.
54. Kagero-za (1981)
Not Rated | 139 min | Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Yûsaku Matsuda, Michiyo Yasuda, Mariko Kaga, Katsuo Nakamura
Votes: 860
55. Zoot Suit (1981)
R | 103 min | Drama, Musical
When barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their freedom.
Director: Luis Valdez | Stars: Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly
Votes: 1,342 | Gross: $3.26M
56. Fanie Fourie's Lobola (2013)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
The story of the complications that ensue when an Afrikaans man and Zulu girl fall in love, especially when the traditional custom of "lobola", or dowry, makes things even more difficult for them.
Director: Henk Pretorius | Stars: Eduan van Jaarsveldt, Zethu Dlomo-Mphahlele, Jerry Mofokeng, Marga van Rooy
Votes: 236
57. Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (1983 TV Special)
130 min | Documentary, Music
The 25th Anniversary of Motown Records is celebrated by its past and present stars playing their greatest hits, plus some new ones.
Director: Don Mischer | Stars: Adam Ant, Nick Ashford, Florence Ballard, Renaldo Benson
Votes: 347
Motown moves. Michael Jackson dances and sings Billie Jean.
58. Lord of the Dance in 3D (2011)
G | 95 min | Musical
Tells a timeless story based on Irish folklore of good versus evil, & through the media of dance & music it is understood and appreciated by every culture.
Director: Marcus Viner | Stars: Michael Flatley, Ciara Sexton
Votes: 234
59. Drifting Along (1946)
Passed | 60 min | Western
A pair of U.S. Marshals come to the aid of a woman who is fighting to keep her ranch from a gang of murderous cattle rustlers who want to get their hands on it.
Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Lynne Carver, Raymond Hatton, Douglas Fowley
Votes: 17
60. Growing Up Smith (2015)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
In 1979, an Indian family moves to America with hopes of living the American Dream. While their 10-year-old boy Smith falls head-over-heels for the girl next door, his desire to become a "good old boy" propels him further away from his family's ideals than ever before.
Director: Frank Lotito | Stars: Jason Lee, Anjul Nigam, Brighton Sharbino, Hilarie Burton Morgan
Votes: 1,430 | Gross: $0.01M
61. Summer Stock (1950)
Approved | 108 min | Musical, Romance
A small-town farmer, down on her luck, finds her homestead invaded by a theatrical troupe invited to stay by her ne'er-do-well sister.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Eddie Bracken, Gloria DeHaven
Votes: 4,805
62. Wild Reeds (1994)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
The fates of two partners are divided.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny
Votes: 6,632 | Gross: $0.92M
63. Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015–2017)
TV-14 | 27 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, a brilliant and beautiful Southern belle who became the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age.
Stars: Christina Ricci, David Hoflin, Kristine Nielsen, David Strathairn
Votes: 4,738
64. Cold Comfort Farm (1995 TV Movie)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Eileen Atkins, Kate Beckinsale, Sheila Burrell, Stephen Fry
Votes: 7,525 | Gross: $5.60M
65. It (1927)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
A salesgirl pursues a handsome playboy.
Directors: Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin, Priscilla Bonner
Votes: 3,559 | Gross: $0.41M
66. Good News (1947)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Golden Globe winner June Allyson and Peter Lawford star in this enjoyable musical about a football hero who falls in love with his French tutor.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall, Joan McCracken
Votes: 2,819
67. Coquette (1929)
Unrated | 76 min | Drama, Romance
A flirtatious Southern belle is compromised with one of her suitors.
Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore, John St. Polis
Votes: 2,314
68. Why Be Good? (1929)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A flapper with a dubious reputation enjoys a vivacious night of dancing and finds herself romantically linked to her boss.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Colleen Moore, Neil Hamilton, Bodil Rosing, John St. Polis
Votes: 560
69. The Patsy (1928)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler, Lawrence Gray
Votes: 2,773
70. Charlie & Boots (2009)
101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A father and son who travel from Victoria to Cape York to fulfill their lifelong ambition to fish off Australia's northern tip.
Director: Dean Murphy | Stars: Paul Hogan, Shane Jacobson, Roy Billing, Morgan Griffin
Votes: 1,679
71. The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular (2003 TV Movie)
101 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Jim Ryan and Kate Conroy love each other, but John Conroy stands in the way of their happiness until Jim Ryan recaptures a prized colt.
Directors: David Atkins, Ignatius Jones | Stars: Georgie Parker, Steve Bisley, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Lee Kernaghan
Votes: 72
Line dancing. Australia, 1890s
72. The Rules of the Game (1939)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély
Votes: 31,292
73. Lady, Let's Dance (1944)
Approved | 88 min | Musical, Romance, War
Belita is a refugee during WWII, working in a hotel. She stumbles into the room of a dancer seeking a new partner. She just happens to be a pro, and she skates too.
Director: Frank Woodruff | Stars: Belita, James Ellison, Walter Catlett, Lucien Littlefield
Votes: 71
74. Frankenstein: The True Story (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 185 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: James Mason, Leonard Whiting, David McCallum, Jane Seymour
Votes: 1,959
English Country dance
75.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999–2000)
Episode:
The Scarlet Pimpernel
(1999)
TV-14 | 90 min | Adventure, Drama
In 1793 Sir Percy learns that Lady Marguerite's brother, Armand St. Just, was arrested for a crime against France. Later Chauvelin imprisons her as well at La Force. The League now seeks to free both.
Director: Patrick Lau | Stars: Andy de la Tour, Martin Shaw, Ronan Vibert, Christopher Fairbank
Votes: 82
English Country dance
76. Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001)
Not Rated | 210 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
After marrying a poor woman, rich Rahul is disowned by his father and moves to London to build a new life. Years later, his now-grown younger brother Rohan embarks on a mission to bring Rahul back home and reunite the family.
Director: Karan Johar | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan
Votes: 55,537 | Gross: $2.90M
Disco
77. Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
PG | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music
In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Penne Hackforth-Jones
Votes: 8,295 | Gross: $4.81M
Ballet
78. Mayerling (1936)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Romance
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He's bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father's, but he knows his views carry... See full summary »
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Marthe Régnier, Yolande Laffon
Votes: 954 | Gross: $0.24M
79. At the Balalaika (1958 TV Movie)
30 min | Music
A live presentation of music, including the Melbourne Balalaika Orchestra conducted by Paul Pavlov, tenor Ernest Marsaus, and Russian folks dances by The Four Cossacks.
Stars: Ernest Marsaus, Paul Pavlov
80. The Battle of Neretva (1969)
G | 105 min | Drama, History, War
World War II drama about the 1943 battle around the Neretva River between Axis forces and Yugoslav partisan units.
Director: Veljko Bulajic | Stars: Yul Brynner, Hardy Krüger, Franco Nero, Sylva Koscina
Votes: 4,037
81. Snegurochka (1969)
90 min | Family, Fantasy, Musical
A Russian fairy tale about a maiden named Snegurochka, who is made out of snow.
Director: Pavel Kadochnikov | Stars: Eugenia Filonova, Evgeniy Zharikov, Irina Gubanova, Boris Khimichev
Votes: 279
82. Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989)
108 min | Documentary, History, Romance
Trinh T. Minh-ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits of Vietnamese women past and present. She explores the fiction of documentary and the truth of subjective experience and all their inherent contradictions.
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha
Votes: 187
83. Hear My Song (1991)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The owner of a failing club seeks infamous Irish singer Josef Locke in order to bring business and success to his club.
Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Ned Beatty, Adrian Dunbar, Brian Flanagan, Constance Cowley
Votes: 1,927 | Gross: $4.31M
84. Harmful Insect (2001)
92 min | Drama
Following the divorce of her parents, her mother's suicide attempt, and the rumors of an affair with her teacher, a lonely 7th grader starts skipping school in an attempt to find herself.
Director: Akihiko Shiota | Stars: Aoi Miyazaki, Seiichi Tanabe, Tetsu Sawaki, Ryô Amamiya
Votes: 951
85. The Country Teacher (2008)
Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Romance
Petr, youthful, quiet, and sensitive, comes from Prague to teach natural science in a country town. The gruff principal asks what he's running from and predicts he'll be gone in six months.... See full summary »
Director: Bohdan Sláma | Stars: Pavel Liska, Zuzana Bydzovská, Ladislav Sedivý, Marek Daniel
Votes: 1,516 | Gross: $0.05M
86. Places in the Heart (1984)
PG | 111 min | Drama
In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.
Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan
Votes: 13,475 | Gross: $34.90M
87. Wagon Master (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Western
Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond
Votes: 5,517
Square Dancing
88. The Southerner (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Drama
The life of the poor Tucker family who worked as cotton pluggers and decided to get their own ground, but nature was against them.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Carrol Naish, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 3,873
Square Dancing
89. Back Home (2001 TV Movie)
98 min | Drama
At the beginning of World War II, Rusty is sent to America by her parents to keep her safe. Now the war is over, it's time for her to come home. While she is glad to see her mother, Peggy, ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Massey | Stars: Sarah Lancashire, Jessica Fox, Kate David, Skye King
Votes: 69
Swing
90. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet
Votes: 13,633
Marching Band Swing
91. Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)
Approved | 90 min | Biography, Comedy, Music
A film biography of the composer John Philip Sousa, from his early days in the Marine Corps Band through the Spanish-American War in 1898.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 959
92. Brassed Off (1996)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.
Director: Mark Herman | Stars: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson
Votes: 20,928 | Gross: $2.56M
Marching Band
93.
Samson en Gert (1990–2019)
Episode:
Octaaf tamboer-majoor
(1996)
Comedy, Family
The town's marching band is taking part in a national competition. To stand a chance, the mayor must urgently find a drum-major. Non-member Alberto accepts, just so he can join the free ... See full summary »
Director: Bart van Leemputten | Stars: Leo Cnudde, Koen Crucke, Walter De Donder, Veerle Luts
Marching Band
94. The Boxer (1997)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Young Danny Flynn is released from prison 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Daragh Donnelly, Frank Coughlan
Votes: 22,291 | Gross: $5.80M
Marching Band
95. From the 50 Yard Line (2007)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Music
The documentary tells the emotional marching band story through two high school bands, one an Ohio championship show band, the other a Los Angeles band reborn after 18 years of silence due ... See full summary »
Director: Doug Lantz | Star: Fran Kick
Votes: 136
96. Ballou (2008)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Ballou , a documentary film, follows the talented Washington, DC, Ballou Senior High School Marching Band, as they overcome their negative environment filled with guns, drugs, and violence,... See full summary »
Director: Michael Patrei | Stars: Marion Barry Jr., Chuck Brown, Lewis Franklin, Denyce Graves
Votes: 36
97. Hell Bent for Victory (2010 Video)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary, Music, Sport
About a Drum and Bugle Corps from the state of Wyoming on a journey around the United States as they attempt to qualify for the 2009 Drum Corps International World Championship Finals.
Director: Michael D. Gough | Stars: Michael D. Gough, Ralph Hardimon, John Masterson, Corey Moore
98. The Whole Gritty City (2013)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Music
Young members of 3 New Orleans school marching bands grow up in America's most musical city, and one of its most dangerous. Their band directors get them ready to perform in the Mardi Gras parades, and teach them to succeed and to survive.
Directors: Richard Barber, Andre Lambertson | Stars: Bruce Davenport Jr., Kirk Dugar Jr., Brandon Franklin, Jazz Henry
Votes: 70
99. Circle of Deceit (1981)
R | 108 min | Drama, War
A German journalist, escaping from broken marriage, goes to Lebanon to cover the civil war. Soon, he realizes that he can't handle the truth.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jean Carmet, Jerzy Skolimowski
Votes: 971
Belly dancing
100. Mata Hari (1981)
87 min | Biography, Drama
Exotic dancer Mata Hari is arrested on suspicion of treason. Before her trial she is questioned thoroughly reveals her life story from her childhood in Zeeland, her marriage in Indonesia and her success and espionage in France.
Stars: Josine van Dalsum, Siem Vroom, Jan Teulings, Lo van Hensbergen
Votes: 28
Exotic dancing
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