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1. Frances Ha (2012)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A New York woman apprentices for a dance company and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as the possibility of realizing them dwindles.
Director: Noah Baumbach | Stars: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen
Votes: 94,644 | Gross: $4.06M
2. Fame (1980)
R | 134 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean
Votes: 24,772 | Gross: $0.12M
3. Staying Alive (1983)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Five years later, Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet: succeeding as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
Director: Sylvester Stallone | Stars: John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Steve Inwood
Votes: 17,656 | Gross: $64.89M
4. The Honey Pot (1967)
Not Rated | 150 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy ex-girlfriends into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, Capucine
Votes: 2,882
5. Girlfriends (1978)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
Director: Claudia Weill | Stars: Melanie Mayron, Eli Wallach, Adam Cohen, Anita Skinner
Votes: 3,099
6. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
After a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet.
Directors: Dorothy Arzner, Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia Field
Votes: 3,092
7. Born to Dance (1936)
Passed | 106 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Una Merkel
Votes: 1,943
8. Peep World (2010)
R | 79 min | Comedy, Drama
Four siblings implode after the release of a book written about them.
Director: Barry W. Blaustein | Stars: Michael C. Hall, Sarah Silverman, Rainn Wilson, Lewis Black
Votes: 3,854 | Gross: $0.01M
9. Black Girl (1972)
PG | 97 min | Drama
An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Director: Ossie Davis | Stars: Brock Peters, Claudia McNeil, Leslie Uggams, Louise Stubbs
Votes: 560 | Gross: $0.41M
10. The Vampire (1957)
Approved | 75 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A kind, small-town doctor mistakenly ingests pills made from vampire bat blood and they turn him into a dangerous fanged creature.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey, Lydia Reed
Votes: 1,307
11. The Backup Dancer (2016)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A story about love and loss. And maybe one day - love again.
Director: Amanda Sharp | Stars: Rose Leslie, Ray Liotta, Carmen Tonry, Alex Reznik
Votes: 1,012
12. Beverly Hills Madam (1986 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama
A madam to a group of high-class call girls faces a series of crises which could unravel her carefully built empire.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Melody Anderson, Donna Dixon, Terry Farrell
Votes: 417
13. Love Between the Raindrops (1980)
126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Karel Bursík (Lukás Vaculík), as a child called Kajda, recalls his childhood spent in Prague - Zizkov. His father (Vladimír Mensík), a shoe-maker, moved there his wife and three children ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Kachyna | Stars: Eduard Cupák, Vladimír Mensík, Lukás Vaculík, Michal Dlouhý
Votes: 256
14. 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: 603
15. Mambo (1954)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Silvana Mangano (a very lovely and sexy voiced actress) plays a young, poor Venetian woman, Giovanna Masetti. She is struggling with a difficult life as a shop assistant when one day the ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Michael Rennie, Vittorio Gassman, Shelley Winters
Votes: 231
16. Goldie (II) (2019)
TV-MA | 88 min | Drama
A teenager in a family shelter wages war against the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of being a dancer. A story about displaced youth, ambition. and strength.
Director: Sam de Jong | Stars: Slick Woods, George Sample III, Danny Hoch, Marsha Stephanie Blake
Votes: 1,211
17. Skanks (1999)
11 min | Short, Drama
There once was a girl who had a dream. That dream was to be dancer. But she had no money. She had to be a skank to fulfill her destiny.
Director: Paul Todisco | Stars: Megan Brotherton, Anna Faris, Billy O'Sullivan, Aidan Kennedy
Votes: 20
18. Aijou monogatari (1984)
100 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Haruki Kadokawa | Stars: Tomoyo Harada, Mitsuko Baishô, Tsunehiko Watase, John Christian
Votes: 31
19. Periferie (2017 TV Movie)
150 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Martin Huba | Stars: Igor Bares, Vojtech Bartos, Andrea Cerná, Tomás Dastlík
20.
CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode:
Dancing with the Fishes
(2005)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young girl lands on the windshield of the car. Her feet tell Stella that she was a dancer. Lindsay Monroe works solo on the death of an old tram driver. She soon realizes that her case is... See full summary »
Directors: John Peters, John Peters | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap
Votes: 321