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1.
Saturday Night Fever
(1977)
A Brooklyn teenager feels his only chance to succeed is as the king of the disco floor. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to forget the reality of his bleak life. (118 mins.)
Director: John Badham
2.
Flashdance
(1983)
A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school. (95 mins.)
Director: Adrian Lyne
3.
Beat Street
(1984)
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture. (105 mins.)
Director: Stan Lathan
4.
Footloose
(1984)
A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace. (107 mins.)
Director: Herbert Ross
5.
Salsa
(1988)
Fatherless barrio Puertorican Rico is a menial car mechanic by day, but lives for the nights, when he dances and dates hot dancing girls... (97 mins.)
Director: Boaz Davidson
6.
Lambada
(1990)
Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance... (104 mins.)
Director: Joel Silberg
7.
Shall We Dance
(2004)
A romantic comedy where a bored, overworked Estate Lawyer, upon first sight of a beautiful instructor, signs up for ballroom dancing lessons. (106 mins.)
Director: Peter Chelsom
8.
Save the Last Dance
(2001)
A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past. (112 mins.)
Director: Thomas Carter
9.
Honey
(2003)
Honey is a sexy, tough music video choreographer who shakes up her life after her mentor gives her an ultimatum: sleep with him or be blacklisted within their industry. (94 mins.)
Director: Bille Woodruff
10.
Five Dances
(2013)
The coming of age tale of an extraordinarily gifted young dancer recently arrived in New York City. (83 mins.)
Director: Alan Brown
11.
Love N' Dancing
(2009)
2002: Jake Mitchell is the defending World West Coast Swing Champion. He's got everything going for him: looks... (91 mins.)
Director: Robert Iscove
12.
Stomp the Yard
(2007)
After the death of his brother, An expert street dancer goes to Georgia to attend Truth University.... (109 mins.)
Director: Sylvain White
13.
How She Move
(2007)
Following her sister's death from drug addiction, a high school student is forced to leave her private school to return to her old, crime-filled neighborhood where she re-kindles an unlikely passion for the competitive world of step dancing. (94 mins.)
Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid
14.
Take the Lead
(2006)
The real story of a dance teacher who believed in the talent of a group of problem kids. (118 mins.)
Director: Liz Friedlander
15.
Breakin'
(1984)
'Breakin': A struggling young jazz dancer (Lucinda Dickey) meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds. Features ICE-T in his film debut as a club MC. (90 mins.)
Director: Joel Silberg
16.
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
(1984)
A developer tries to bulldoze a community recreation center. The local breakdancers try to stop it. (94 mins.)
Director: Sam Firstenberg
17.
You Got Served: Beat the World
(2011)
Three dance crews prepare to do battle at the international Beat the World competition in Detroit. In the final showdown to become world champions lifelong hopes, dreams and even lives, are at stake. (91 mins.)
Director: Robert Adetuyi
18.
You Got Served
(2004)
In order to achieve their dream of opening a recording studio, two friends (Omarion, Houston) must first win their city's dance contest -- a fierce competition that pits them against a group of tough street dancers. (95 mins.)
Director: Christopher B. Stokes
19.
Step Up 2: The Streets
(2008)
Romantic sparks occur between two dance students from different backgrounds at the Maryland School of the Arts. (98 mins.)
Director: Jon M. Chu
20.
Step Up
(2006)
Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with an up and coming dancer, Nora. (104 mins.)
Director: Anne Fletcher
21.
Step Up 3D
(2010)
A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers,find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown. (107 mins.)
Director: Jon M. Chu
22.
Step Up Revolution
(2012)
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans. (99 mins.)
Director: Scott Speer
23.
Step Up All In
(2014)
All-stars from the previous Step Up installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers. (112 mins.)
Director: Trish Sie
24.
Fame
(1980)
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts. (134 mins.)
Director: Alan Parker
25.
Fame
(1982 TV Series)
The stories of the students and faculty of the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. (60 mins.)
26.
This Is Spinal Tap
(1984)
Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DeBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour. (82 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
27.
Swing Time
(1936)
A performer and gambler travels to New York City to raise the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiancée, only to become entangled with a beautiful aspiring dancer. (103 mins.)
Director: George Stevens
28.
Make It Happen
(2008)
Embarking on a journey to fulfill her dreams as a dancer, a young girl discovers a new style of dance that will prove to be the source of both conflict and self-discovery. (90 mins.)
Director: Darren Grant
29.
Center Stage: Turn It Up
(2008)
A self-trained dancer from the streets of Detroit makes her way into the most prestigious ballet academy in New York. (95 mins.)
Director: Steven Jacobson
31.
StreetDance 2
(2012)
After suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash (Hentschel) looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch. (85 mins.)
Director: Max Giwa, Dania Pasquini
32.
StreetDance 3D
(2010)
In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space. (98 mins.)
Director: Max Giwa, Dania Pasquini
33.
Carmen: A Hip Hopera
(2001 TV Movie)
Based on Bizet's classic opera and its all African American musical counterpart Carmen Jones, Carmen... (88 mins.)
Director: Robert Townsend
34.
Carmen Jones
(1954)
Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast. (105 mins.)
Director: Otto Preminger
35.
All That Jazz
(1979)
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a womanizing, drug-using dancer. (123 mins.)
Director: Bob Fosse
36.
Stormy Weather
(1943)
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African American entertainers of the early 1900s. (78 mins.)
Director: Andrew Stone
37.
A Hard Day's Night
(1964)
A 'typical' day in the life of the Beatles, including many of their famous songs. (87 mins.)
Director: Richard Lester
38.
The Band Wagon
(1953)
A pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition. (112 mins.)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
39.
The Red Shoes
(1948)
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina. (133 mins.)
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
40.
Les Misérables
(2012)
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives for ever. (158 mins.)
Director: Tom Hooper
41.
Dreamgirls
(2006)
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. (130 mins.)
Director: Bill Condon
42.
Tender Mercies
(1983)
A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together. (92 mins.)
Director: Bruce Beresford
43.
Cabaret
(1972)
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. (124 mins.)
Director: Bob Fosse
44.
Oliver!
(1968)
Musical adaptation about an orphan who runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. (153 mins.)
Director: Carol Reed
45.
In Old Chicago
(1937)
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire. (95 mins.)
Director: Henry King
46.
The Broadway Melody
(1929)
Harriet and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs... (100 mins.)
Director: Harry Beaumont
47.
The Company
(2003)
Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer (Campbell) who's poised to become a principal performer. (112 mins.)
Director: Robert Altman