Dance movies I've watched: from best to worst

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.

Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.

A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.

Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin Dancing. One night, after a glorious dance competition, they have a car accident and see their lives turn upside down. Rumba or how optimism and humour can overcome fatality!

The life and love story of Argentina's famous tango dancers Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes, who met as teenagers and danced together for nearly fifty years until a painful separation tore them apart.

A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).

Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.

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?

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.

Be free of your daily boring life.

A race-car driver preparing for the Grand Prix wiles his time in Las Vegas working as a waiter to pay for his new engine and soon strikes up a romance with a beautiful young woman.

A humongous and obese anthropomorphic swine dressed like a fine gentleman in a fancy dinner attire tries to make a pass at a solitary lady having a picnic.

In the countryside town of Macacu, the hick Onofre receives a letter from his cousin Paulinho inviting him to travel to Rio de Janeiro to enjoy the Wonderful City. When the naive Onofre arrives, he is stolen in the bus station and lured by a taxi driver. He has to sleep on the sidewalk and beg for food without Paulinho's address that was in his suitcase. When he meets the musician Carlinhos Lyra, he uses the television broadcast to find Paulinho. Onofre is welcomed by Paulinho and his friends in Ipanema beach but the newcomer is clumsy and he is mocked by the whole gang from the beach. However, Onofre dates Dadá and Paulinho's girlfriend Patricia and the others girls believe that he is "good in bed". Meanwhile Onofre learns how to dance in an academy with the teacher Liz. When he is ready to dance, he invites Liz to date him in the New York City Discoteque. Andre and his male friends are jealous and believe that Onofre is a threat to them. When the prudish Martinha invites Onofre to her birthday party at home with her parents and two very big brothers, Andre and his friends plots a scheme to get rid off Onofre.

Tyler 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.

A Brazilian Theater group that through talent, irony and humor confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970's revolutionizing the gay movement worldwide and changing theater and dance language to an entire generation.

Leticia and Fernando live in an outdated home. Everything changes when Fernando is caught kissing a male neighbor, triggering their father's prejudice. The cruel environment influences Leticia's first contemporary ballet choreography.

Mario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.

Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.

Princess Ali, of Barnum and Bailey's circus, performs an Egyptian dance in the Edison Company's studio. As she dances, some musicians perform in the background to provide accompaniment.

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.

In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.

Quartet from Northeast Brazil arrive in Rio de Janeiro, to try their luck in the big city.

The history of Partido-Alto, a musical subgenre derived from Samba, with roots in the batucada of Bahia.