|
Title
(ordered by year)
|
Director
and Cast
|
Comments
|
| All Fred Astaire movies |
Yes, all of them, black and white,
or Colors. |
Enjoy the dance legend. Movie stories
similar sometime, but dances are different and very creative
on every one of them. |
|
Singin'
in the Rain
(1952)
|
Director: Gene Kelly
Stanley Donen
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor
|
Gene
Kelly made dancing seem virile and modern, and every sequence
here is unforgettable, not just his wet classic in the street.
Donald O'Connor is almost as good and twice as funny.
|
|
White
Christmas
(1954)
|
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Starring: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen |
Thanks to
Kathy Braden who sent in this movie information!!! Here is the
quote from Kathy "There is a lot of dancing throughout
the movie My favorite dance number comes about 30 minutes into
the movie with Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen dancing outside at
a Florida nightclub to the song The Best
Things Happen While You are Dancing." |
|
West
Side Story
(1961)
|
Director:
Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
|
I
love this movie when the song and dance are right. Some of the
songs are pretty boring. |
|
Saturday
Night Fever (1977)
|
Director:
John Badham
Starring: John Travolta |
Ditto, but
for the New York suburbs. Perhaps the only great film set in
a disco. Travolta in tight pants made even walking look like
dancing. This movie was rated R and still not a great movie
for children. |
|
Grease
(1978)
|
Director:
Randal Kleiser
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John
|
Enjoy
it if you are as young as I am. |
|
All
That Jazz (1979)
|
Director:
Bob Fosse
Starring: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange |
Broadway style
movie rated R. Good Jazz dances but not too healthy story. BTW,
if you are a smoker or were a smoker, you could feel what Roy
felt when he smoked so heavily in this movie. |
|
Flashdance
(1983)
|
Director:
Adrian Lyne
Starring: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri
|
Enjoy
it if you are my age. |
|
Footloose
(1984)
|
Director:
Herbert Ross
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer
|
Only
remember it had good songs! |
|
A
Chorus Line
(1985)
|
Director:
Richard Attenborough
Starring: Michael Douglas, Terrence Mann |
I haven't
seen it. |
|
Tango
(1987)
|
|
I haven't
seen it. |
|
Dirty
Dancing
(1987)
|
Director:
Emile Ardolino
Starring: Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze |
Good dance
movie! |
|
Salsa
(1988)
|
Director:
Boza Davidson
Starring: Robby Rosa, Rodney Harvey, Miranda Garrison |
Good salsa.
Stupid movie and acting. |
|
TAP
(1989)
|
Director:
Nick Castle
Starring: Gregory Hines, Suzzanne Douglass
|
Gregory
Hines and some of the best black hoofers from several generations
show us some great dance moves. |
|
Dance
Theatre of Harlem (1989)
|
Starring:
Dance Theatre of Harlem, Arthur Mitchell |
I haven't
seen it. |
|
My
Blue Heaven
(1990)
|
Director:
Herbert Ross
Starring: Steve Martin, Rick Moranis |
Merengue?
"Do it"! Quoted by Steve Martin in this movie! Only
a few minutes of dancing but you will never forget about it.
|
|
Lambada
(1990)
|
Director:Joel
Silberq
Starring : Eddie Peck, Melora Hardin |
I haven't
seen it. |
|
The
Forbidden Dance Is Lambada (1990)
|
Director: Greydon Clark
Starring:Laura Harring, Jeff James
|
I haven't
seen it. |
|
A
Tribute to Alvin Ailey (1992)
|
Starring:
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
I haven't
seen it. |
|
Strictly
Ballroom (1992)
|
Director:Baz
Luhrmann
Starring:Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice |
I like this
Australian movie. Not logical but enjoyable. |
|
Flamenco
(1997)
|
Director:
Carlos Saura |
I haven't
seen it. |
|
The Tango Lesson
(1997)
|
Director:Sally
Poter.
Starring: SAlly Potter, Pablo Veron, Carlos Copello. |
British movie.
The best ever Argentine Tango movie. Black and white, weird
story. If you like Tango, you must buy it. I don't think there
is a DVD version in US. Only VHS. |
|
Shall
We Dance
(1997)
|
Director:
Masayuki Suo
Starring: koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari. |
This is the
origin and it is still the best! The story is logical and much
better than the Richard Gere's 2004 version. |
|
Mad
About Mambo
(1998)
|
Director:
John Forte
|
No Mambo but
a little Samba. I meant 'a very little' Samba. Don't bother
to watch this movie unless you always get turned on by teens'
love stories like I do. |
|
Dance
With Me
(1998)
|
Director:
Randa Haines
Starring: Vanessa Williams, Chayanne |
I like it! |
|
Tango
(1999)
|
Director:
Carlos Saura
Starring: Cecilia Narova, Miquel Angel Sola |
Good
Tango movie. |
|
Burn
the Floor
(2000)
|
Starring:
Burn the Floor, Fergus Login |
Not a movie.
It is a film of a live show. Some top of the world ballroom
dancers in it. Don't rent it, buy it! You want to watch this
movie over and over again. Click
to visit Burn the Floor wetsite. |
|
Billy
Elliot
(2000)
|
Director:
Stephen Daldry
Starring: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters |
Not
related to ballroom dances.
Great British movie with spirited freestyling by Jamie Bell.
I love this movie. |
|
Save
the Last Dance
(2001)
|
Director: Thomas Carter
(II)
Starring: Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas
|
You watch
it, you forget it! |
|
Fosse
(2002)
|
Director: Matthew Diamond
Starring: Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen
|
I
haven't seen it. |
|
Assassination
Tango
(2002)
|
Director:Robert
Duvall
Starring: Robert Duvall, Ruben Blades. |
Boring Movie
but very good Argentine Tango. You will not watch it twice.
Maybe only fastward to the Tango dance parts. |
|
Chicago
(2003)
|
Director:
Rob Marshall
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger
|
Great
Broadway show to the screen the 2nd time. You will enjoy it
better in the theater due to the 'moods' that lady audiences
create. |
|
Dirty
Dancing - Havana Nights (2004)
|
Director:
Guy Ferland
Starring: Diego Luna, Romola Garai |
Teen's
movie. OK with me. |
|
Shall
We Dance? (2004)
|
Director:
Peter Chelsom
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Stanley
Tucci, Bobby Cannavale |
Ballroom
lovers would watch this movie and forget about the unreasonable
portions! People just love Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon. |
|
Mad
Hot Ballroom
(2005)
|
Director:
Marilyn Agrelo
|
A
very interesting documentary movie about school kids taking
ballroom competitions in New York City public schools. |
|
Take
the Lead
(2006)
|
Director:
Liz Friedlander |
Antonio
Banderas stars as a real life professional dancer who volunteered
to teach in a New York City public high school.
Release on 4/7/2006. |
|
Marilyn
Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
(2006)
|
Director:
Randall Miller |
Released
on 3/31/2006. Got almost all bad reviews. The DVD was released
in August. It is grey movie with a sort of happy ending. Ballroom
part is more abstract than real. The movie needed a dance consultant
to satisfy viewers who know ballroom dances. I myself like the
story and the way it was told. Directing was bad though. |
|
Hairspray
(2007)
|
Director:
Adam Shankman
|
Great
Broadway movie! Not a sigle minute is boring! Don't miss it! |
