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1. Grease (1978)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway
Votes: 300,784 | Gross: $188.76M
2. 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: 87,563 | Gross: $94.21M
3. Cats (2019)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.
Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: James Corden, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba
Votes: 55,936
4. Faith, Hope & Love (2019)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
When recent divorcee Faith enters a dance contest to save her dance studio, she meets Jimmy Hope and rediscovers her faith and dreams.
Directors: J.J. Englert, Robert Krantz | Stars: Peta Murgatroyd, Robert Krantz, Edward Asner, Corbin Bernsen
Votes: 1,229 | Gross: $0.21M
5. Wake Up (II) (2020)
11 min | Short, Music
A woman is forced to rediscover her humanity in an increasingly digital world.
Director: Olivia Wilde | Stars: Margaret Qualley, Judy Bennett, Cricket Brown, Charles Massey
Votes: 453
6. Love N' Dancing (2009)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Romance
2002: Jake Mitchell is the defending World West Coast Swing Champion. He's got everything going for him: looks, personality, and style. He's at the top of his game when he and his partner ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Nicola Royston, Brandi Tobias, Brian Lucero, Tom Malloy
Votes: 1,930
7. Center Stage: Turn It Up (2008)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A self-trained dancer from the streets of Detroit finds her way after auditioning for the most prestigious ballet academy in New York.
Director: Steven Jacobson | Stars: Kenny Wormald, Rachele Brooke Smith, Sarah Jayne Jensen, Nicole Muñoz
Votes: 6,379
8. 1 Chance 2 Dance (2014)
G | 89 min | Drama, Family, Romance
When a seventeen-year old aspiring dancer is uprooted mid-semester of her senior year, she finds herself in a small East Coast high school where her heart will be divided between two boys, ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Deyoe | Stars: Lexi Giovagnoli, Justin Ray, Rae Latt, Poonam Basu
Votes: 601
9. Musical Chairs (2011)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Romance
When, Mia, a dance teacher, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando, a would-be dancer who admires her from afar, persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest.
Director: Susan Seidelman | Stars: Leah Pipes, E.J. Bonilla, Priscilla Lopez, Jamie Tirelli
Votes: 342 | Gross: $0.03M
10. Ashes of God (2003)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama
A visual poem in a universe of realities.
Director: Andre Semenza | Stars: Tuca Pinheiro, Heloísa Domingues, Jacqueline Gimenes, Ricardo De Paula II
Votes: 12
11. Evidence of it All (2021)
9 min | Short
Choreographer Drew Jacoby (Nederlands Dans Theater, Royal Ballet of Flanders) directs her first short film for SFDanceworks. She commissioned Pulitzer winning librettist Royce Vavrek to ... See full summary »
Director: Drew Jacoby | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Meredith Webster
Votes: 8
12. The Rain (2007)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short
A series of tableaux of everyday settings with people in various stages of their lives. Relations form and finish, memories of meetings mingle with the yearning for meetings that have not ... See full summary »
Director: Pontus Lidberg | Stars: Yvan Auzeli, Giovanni Bucchieri, Filip Gauffin, Malin Levanon
Votes: 145
13. Stork Fiction (2023)
9 min | Short
Stork Fiction is a dance-film celebrating the white storks that populate the estuary of the Charente River (France) and that are stopping their transcontinental migrations because of Climate Change.
Directors: Mehdi Sli, Nourddine Sli | Stars: Léone Salinas Muñiz, Jasmin Sisti
14. Danse serpentine (1897)
1 min | Short
Angelic and demonic serpentine dances from dawn of cinema by the Lumière Brothers film, called the Serpentine Dance. The dancer is Loie Fuller; the pioneer modern dancer. Recorded in 1896 in Paris, and hand-colored frame by frame.
Director: Louis Lumière | Star: Loie Fuller
Votes: 971
15. Angel in Red (2015)
TV-G | 19 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Angel in Red is a short, experimental dance documentary by filmmaker Cara Myers of Vespera Films that tells a universal message about death in an emotionally driven, uplifting way through dance.
Director: Cara Myers | Stars: Koree Case, Tori David, Eli Dewitz, Skylar Peters
Votes: 7
16. Haggard's She: The Pillar of Fire (1899)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy
A devil conjures up a dancing woman from a mystical flame.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 969
17. Align (2020)
7 min | Short
An experimental film that presents two radically different dance forms: ballet and pole dance.
Director: R.E. Wolfe | Stars: Casey Nokomis Pereira, Holly Weston
18. Kanibarú (2019)
TV-PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Lola and her friends enter a contest of carnival dance groups, driven by the dream of reaching New York and meeting her father.
Directors: Giancarlo Beras-Goico, Alfonso Rodríguez | Stars: Marcos Sánchez, Vladimir Acevedo, Ulises Rutinel Arzeno, Mark B.
Votes: 26
19. A Ritmo de Fe (2013)
Not Rated | 84 min | Music
A poor but talented dancer relies on his faith to overcome obstacles and lands as a contestant on a TV dance competition.
Director: Jose Gomez De Vargas | Stars: Hayrol Abreu, Loraida Bobadilla, Vladimir Acevedo, Laura Isabel Fernández
Votes: 31
20. Immortal: A Tribute to Jonah Poplove (2019)
16 min | Short, Music
On September 24th, 2017, the world lost an incredible artist. Jonah Poplove, a native of Ottawa, took his own life after suffering from years of severe depression. His funeral on September ... See full summary »
Director: Stelth Ng | Stars: Matt Antal, Gillian Carrabré, Tess Crowther, Carolyn Farnand
21. Sea Without Shore (2015)
91 min | Drama
A rhythmically captivating exploration of love and loss at the fin-de-siècle. An amorous relationship between two women abruptly cut short. Dissolving under the impact of the loss of her ... See full summary »
Directors: Andre Semenza, Fernanda Lippi | Stars: Livia Rangel, Fernanda Lippi, Anna Mesquita, Ankie Hermansson
Votes: 25
22. 5 Soldiers - The Body is the Frontline (2011)
Short
An interactive dance film shot in Coventry airport. Based on the critically acclaimed live production of the same name.
Director: Rosie Kay | Stars: Chris Linda, Tomasz Moskal, Michael Spenceley, Chris Vann
23. Furious Beauty (2013)
88 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
A single mother & her dance partner create a hip-hop dance company with public school students & street dancers, staging their own dance show, and forming a new modern family.
Director: Calvin Leung | Stars: Alex Almarez, Alex Ayon, Raymond Basa, Anthony Berry
Votes: 9
24. Yudh (2019)
59 min | Musical
The central premise of Yudh is based on around the story of a young girl Pavitra, who is kidnapped from a park and never heard off again. Her grieving parents have spent their lives trying ... See full summary »
Director: AK Srikanth | Star: Savitha Sastry
Votes: 9
25. Christina's World (2018)
Short
Inspired by Andrew Wyeth's 1948 painting, "Christina's World", Christina has a private moment as she navigates her relationship with her ailing body.
Director: Sarah Prikryl | Star: Connor Kelly-Eiding
26. 4Tokens - E pur si muove (1993)
7 min | Short
Director: Peter Delpeut | Stars: Andrea Leine, Harijono Roebana
27. When the Night Falls (2022)
10 min | Short, Drama, War
The dance film When the Night Falls tells the story of a woman fleeing the horrors of a collapsing society in the near future. Along the way, she encounters people on whose trust her entire future depends on.
Director: Kimmo Leed | Stars: Virpi Juntti, Jenni Nikolajeff, Pia Liski, Tommi Haapaniemi
28. The Kiss (2024)
8 min | Short
A contemporary dance film by choreographer Talia Miharu inspired by Gustav Klimt's painting, "The Kiss", starring Kaben Benavides and Gabriel Tolmer.
Director: Talia Miharu | Stars: Kaben Benavides, Gabriel Tolmer
29. Air Mail Special (1941)
3 min | Short, Musical
In this Soundie, Count Basie and His Orchestra play the title song while many couples do the Lindy Hop.
Director: Robert R. Snody | Stars: Count Basie and His Orchestra, Count Basie, Jeanne Bayer, Winnie Johnson
Votes: 59
30. Pandanggo (2006)
130 min | Drama
PANDANGGO has three stories with parallel themes converging in one event, the Kasilonawan Festival in Obando: a career woman learning to dance tango who is torn between her dance partner ... See full summary »
Directors: Dennis Empalmado, Wilfred Galila, Ruelo Lozendo | Stars: Chin Chin Gutierrez, Raymond Bagatsing, Andre Tiangco, Vangie Labalan
31. Memphis Movement: Jookin - The Urban Ballet (2009)
80 min | Documentary, History
For decades their art has been overlooked by the world. But now a community unites to take their movement worldwide. It's called Jookin, a dance style that developed from the streets of ... See full summary »
Director: Ellis E. Fowler | Star: Darnell Carlton
32. Crucifiga (2023)
8 min | Short
Crucifiga gives the audience a glimpse of a distant future where human kind and artificial intelligence has synergised into an android species; created and shaped into 'perfection' by the image of our icons.
Director: Erika O'Neill | Stars: Elin Busk, Hilda Hedin, Amelia Hjelm, Kajsa Hjelm
33. Coup de Grâce (I) (2011)
26 min | Short
Coup de Grâce is a film about the collapse of a friendship, about what is broken and what cannot break. After a long separation two men meet again in a massive building at a remote location... See full summary »
Director: Clara van Gool | Stars: Jordi Cortés, Damián Muñoz
Votes: 7
34. échappé (2020)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama
When presented with the opportunity to be cast in a lead role, an aging dancer must determine if her personal integrity outweighs her professional ambitions after experiencing a choreographer's unwanted sexual advances.
Director: Rebecca Walters | Stars: Hannah Myers, Sean Stack, Faith Fidgeon, Paul Gregory Clark
35. Dreams of Giverny
7 min | Short | Completed
Dreams of Giverny is a modern day ghost story told through the poetic use of classical ballet, set in the gardens and around the water lily pond of impressionist painter Claude Monet's home in Giverny, France.
Director: Alice Pennefather | Stars: Sarah Lamb, Annabel Pickering, Allen Christer
37. Ashlock (2018)
14 min | Short, Drama
In the Old Lead Belt of Missouri, Josiah Ashlock is a hard boiled foreman with a violent temper, abusive at home and in the mine. Mary is his repressed and misguidedly loyal wife, a lonely ... See full summary »
Director: Elliott Geolat | Stars: Milan Valko, Audrey Honert, Michael Monsey, Allie Burns
38. Heaven Is a Place (2014)
17 min | Short
Inspired by the writing of Jean Genet, the bodies of the present move in the places of Plymouth's past, contrasting the transient materiality of the human form in motion with the elemental forces of wind and sea.
Director: Kayla Parker | Stars: Erik Koky, Adam Lau, Catarina Lau, Zoë Mote
39. The Descent (2019 Video)
9 min | Short, Musical
A short dance film, performed in Bharatanatyam - the classical Indian dance form, depicting the gripping and intense downward spiral of a once famous artiste who now finds her position replaced by new faces.
Director: AK Srikanth | Stars: Varsha Raviprakasha, Krupa Ramachandran, Savitha Sastry
Votes: 17
40. Nowhere Near
23 min | Short, Music | Completed
A young woman explores the reality of a toxic relationship through a parallel world built on music and dance. As the lines become blurred between what exists and what could have been, she ... See full summary »
Directors: Christophe Filippi, Kayla Kalbfleisch | Stars: Christina Ricucci, Vince Hill-Bedford, Jake Tribus
41. Rone: L(oo)ping (2023)
62 min | Music
Director: Louise Narboni | Stars: Léa Dubois, Mehdi Baki, Fanny Sage, Jakub Truszkowski
42. PAris - Qui vivra verra (2020)
Short, Romance
A love letter to Paris through movement and recollections.
Directors: Glen MacKay, Glen MacKay | Star: Mia Bourhis
43. The Dream (IV) (2015)
Short
The Dream is a short experimental dance film exploring the world of dreams. The 'sleeping' woman is representative of humanity's oblivious state of spiritual ignorance of what is truly real, awakening the spirit where Magic dwells.
Director: Javiera Estrada | Stars: Elsa Godard, Jade Hale-Christofi
44. Turn Me Off (2022)
4 min | Short, Drama
Tensions build as both teacher and student strive for excellence. But what's the cost of the perfect pirouette?
Director: Veronica Ellis | Stars: Hannah Barker-Wood, Éva Magyar
45. Solace Is (2016)
12 min | Short, Music
Solace Is is a story of human consciousness experiencing the final stage of a relationship performed through Modern Dance as a narrative short film.
Directors: Yelena Konetchy, Aisha Melhem | Stars: Inna Grudtcina, Yelena Konetchy, Lucy Wilson
46. El Mur (2013)
10 min | Short
Five people trapped in a room without doors or windows, divided by a wall. Each one confronts it differently, however they are all bound by the same rules. The Wall is a film adaptation of ... See full summary »
Director: Aitor Echeverría | Stars: Joan Casaoliva, Magí Serra, Andrea Torres, Joahn Volmar
47. North Horizon (2010)
14 min | Short
Contemporary dance with the spectacular natural vistas of the high Arctic.
Directors: Thomas Freundlich, Valtteri Raekallio | Stars: Thomas Freundlich, Valtteri Raekallio
48. Pathways 5 (2014)
Short, Musical
Nathan Makolandra and McKenna Birmingham of the LA Dance Project, perform "Pathways 5", written by Noah Potter.
Directors: Molly O'Connor, Molly O'Connor | Stars: McKenna Birmingham, Nathan Makolandra
49. A Small Town Nutcracker Story
Family | Completed
A young girl's holiday tradition is cancelled due to the pandemic, yet a dream arises that promises to reinvent their shuttered hopes.
Director: Robert Douthat | Stars: Sarai Ell, Meriwether McDonald, Korinne Luis, Lindsey Stump
50. Emotional Houdini (2018)
3 min | Short
A comedic experimental dance film about aging, memory loss and the difficulties of communicating with your dad.
Director: Allison Beda | Star: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg