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The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
, 1h22Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Musical films, Sports d'hiver, Patinage artistique
Actors Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Lew Ayres, Lewis Stone, Lionel Stander, Wade Boteler
Larry Hall (James Stewart) and Eddie Burgess (Lew Ayres) have a successful skating act until Larry falls in love with Mary McKay (Joan Crawford), an inept skater whom Larry insists upon including in the act. Fired from job after job because of Mary's ineptitude, Larry keeps up his spirits by dreaming of producing a colossal ice show. Following their latest dismissal, the couple elope, and Mary, feeling guilty for damaging her husband's career, convinces Douglas Tolliver, Jr. (Lewis Stone), the head of Monarch Studios, to offer her a movie contract.
Dancers (1987)
, 1h22Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Dance films
Actors Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tommy Rall, Mariangela Melato, Gianmarco Tognazzi
Nijinsky (1980)
, 2h9Directed by Herbert Ross, Yves Amoureux
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Alan Bates, Leslie Browne, Alan Badel, Jeremy Irons, Ronald Pickup, Ronald Lacey
The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality. He became involved with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joined impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes specifically to seduce Nijinsky. After a series of misunderstandings with Diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, Nijinsky succumbs to Romola's charms and marries her. After this, his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to a diagnosis of schizophrenia begins.
Slam (1998)
, 1h40Directed by Marc Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Sonja Sohn, Saul Williams, Marc Levin
Raymond Joshua (played by Saul Williams) is a young man growing up in the fictional Southeast, Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Dodge City. Despite his innate gift for poetry and his aspiration to be a rapper, he finds it difficult to escape the pressures of his surroundings: violence and drug dealing.
Ain't Misbehavin' (1955)
, 1h22Directed by Edward Buzzell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Rory Calhoun, Piper Laurie, Jack Carson, Mamie Van Doren, Reginald Gardiner, Barbara Britton
Une jeune fille entre dans la haute société quand un vieil homme riche tombe amoureux d'elle.
Limelight (1952)
, 2h17Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Wheeler Dryden
The movie is set in London in 1914, on the eve of World War I (and the year Chaplin made his first film). Calvero (Chaplin), once a famous stage clown but now a washed-up drunk, saves a young dancer, Thereza "Terry" Ambrose, (Claire Bloom), from suicide. Nursing her back to health, Calvero helps Terry regain her self-esteem and resume her dancing career. In doing so he regains his own self-confidence, but his attempts to make a comeback meet with failure. Terry says she wants to marry Calvero despite their age difference, although she has befriended Neville (Sydney Earl Chaplin), a young composer Calvero believes would be better suited to her. In order to give them a chance, Calvero leaves home and becomes a street entertainer. Terry, now starring in her own show, eventually finds Calvero and persuades him to return to the stage for a benefit concert. Reunited with an old partner (Keaton), Calvero gives a triumphant comeback performance. He suffers a heart attack during a routine, however, and dies in the wings while watching Terry, the second act on the bill, dance on stage.
First Position (2011)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary
Themes Dance films, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
ABCD 2 (2015)
, 2h34Directed by Remo D'Souza
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Children's films
Actors Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapooor, Prabhu Deva, Lauren Gottlieb, Tisca Chopra, Dolly Bindra
Suresh Mukund (Varun Dhawan) wants to be a big dancer to fulfill his mother's wish. Vinnie (Shraddha Kapoor) wants to be the best hip-hop dancer. Childhood friends from suburban Nalasopara, Mumbai, they form a team and participate in a national level competition "Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin" where they are disqualified as their moves are copied and everyone calls them cheaters. Everyone departs to search for jobs. Suresh works in a bar as a waiter, Vinnie joins a beauty parlour and Vernon (Sushant Pujari) works as a delivery boy where, time and again, they are insulted as cheaters. The departure of angry teammates adds injury to insult, and nothing is set to be corrected.
, 1h29Directed by Carroll Ballard
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Dance films, Christmas films, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Julie Harris
Drosselmeyer, a clockmaker and toymaker, is in his workshop. Suddenly getting an idea, he begins building on an intricate mechanical project resembling a cross between a model castle, a music box, and a toy theatre. After it is apparently completed, he falls asleep at his work table. The toy theatre stage opens; the rest of the film is implied to take place on this stage. Clara, a girl on the verge of adolescence, is asleep in her bedroom, dreaming of dancing with a prince before being interrupted by her younger brother Fritz, who summons a giant rat to bite her hand. She wakes up from the dream in terror. But when she goes to her family's Christmas party and sees Fritz playing with a hand puppet rat that strongly resembles the one in the dream, she becomes very uneasy.
Tom at the Farm (2014)
, 1h42Directed by Xavier Dolan
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Dance films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, Tango films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Caleb Landry Jones, Xavier Dolan, Lise Roy, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Evelyne Brochu, Manuel Tadros
Tom, a young advertising copywriter, travels to the country for the funeral of his boyfriend Guillaume. There, he is shocked to learn that no one knows who he is, nor his relationship to the deceased. Guillaume's brother Francis soon sets the rules of a twisted game. In order to protect the family's name and the deceased's grieving mother, Agathe, Tom now has to play the peacekeeper in a household whose obscure past bodes even greater darkness for his "trip" to the farm.
Invitation to the Dance (1956)
, 1h33Directed by Gene Kelly, Freddie Young
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical, Animation
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Gene Kelly, Tommy Rall, André Previn, Belita, Carol Haney
The first segment, "Circus", set to original music composed for the film by Jacques Ibert, is a tragic love triangle set in a mythical land sometime in the past. Kelly plays a clown, who is in love with another circus performer, played by Claire Sombert. She, however, is in love with an Aerialist, played by Youskevitch. The Clown, after entertaining the crowds with the other clowns, sees his love and the Aerialist kiss and wanders into a crowd in shock. That night he watches them dance together, and after the Lady finds him with her shawl, he confesses his love to her. The Aerialist finds them and thinks she has been unfaithful and leaves her. Determined to win her, the Clown tries to walk the Aerialist's tightrope himself, only to fall to his death. Dying, he urges the two lovers to forgive each other.
I'm Still Here (2010)
, 1h48Directed by Casey Affleck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films
Actors Joaquin Phoenix, Sean Combs, Casey Affleck, Ben Stiller, Eddie Rouse, Mos Def
In 2008 while rehearsing for a charity event, actor Joaquin Phoenix, with Casey Affleck's camera watching, tells people he's quitting to pursue a career in rap music. Over the next year, we watch the actor write, rehearse, and perform to an audience. He importunes Sean Combs in hopes he'll produce the record. We see the actor in his home: he parties, smokes, bawls out his two-man entourage, talks philosophy with Affleck, and comments on celebrity. I'm Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the documentary follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. The film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads and explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye.
Naach (2004)
, 2h30Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Abhishek Bachchan, Antara Mali, Ritesh Deshmukh, Priya Badlani, Manoj Pahwa, Mukesh Bhatt
Abhinav (Abhishek Bachchan) and Reva (Antara Mali) are two, middle-class citizens in the big city of Mumbai. Both are trying to get a breakthrough in their individual profession. Abhinav wants to be an actor and Reva wants to be a choreographer. Both meet, fall in love and spend some intimate moments together.
And Then We Danced (2019)
, 1h46Directed by Levan Akin
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related film
Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) et sa partenaire Mary (Ana Javakishvili) se sont toujours entraînés dans l’Ensemble National Géorgien. Quand Irakli (Bachi Valishvili) arrive sous les yeux de Merab, il représente à la fois, pour lui, son rival et son désir…
Desert Dancer (2014)
, 1h38Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Dance films
Actors Reece Ritchie, Freida Pinto, Nazanin Boniadi, Tom Cullen, Marama Corlett, Akın Gazi
Set in Iran, the story follows the ambition of Afshin Ghaffarian. During the volatile climate of the 2009 presidential election, Afshin and some friends (including Elaheh played by Freida Pinto) risk their lives and form an underground dance company. The group learned the dancing from videos of Michael Jackson, Gene Kelly and Rudolf Nureyev even though the online videos are banned. Afshin and Elaheh also learn much from each other and learned how to embrace their passion for dance and for one another.