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1. 42nd Street 1933
Passed | 1h 29min
Metascore
When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.
Votes: 10,972 | Gross: $1,600
Stars: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent
2. A Chorus Line 1985
PG-13 | 1h 53min
Metascore
Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.
Votes: 9,276 | Gross: $14,202,899
Stars: Michael Douglas, Terrence Mann, Michael Blevins
3. All That Jazz 1979
R | 2h 3min
Metascore
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
Votes: 28,847 | Gross: $37,823,676
Stars: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer
4. An American in Paris 1951
Passed | 1h 54min
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Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
Votes: 31,134 | Gross: $272,619
Stars: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
5. Anything Goes 1956
TV-PG | 1h 46min
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'discovers' the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to ...
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Votes: 864
Stars: Bing Crosby, Donald O’Connor, Zizi Jeanmaire
6. Ballerina 2006
Not Rated | 1h 20min
This documentary gives insight to the lives of five ballerinas, all at different points in their careers. Looking at the operations of the Vagonova Academy and the Mariinsky Theatre, the life of a ballerina is disclosed.
Votes: 383 | Gross: $131,460
Stars: Taylor Ash, Altynai Asylmuratova, Diane Baker
7. Bamboozled 2000
R | 2h 15min
Metascore
A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.
Votes: 10,841 | Gross: $2,463,650
Stars: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith
8. The Band Wagon 1953
Passed | 1h 52min
Metascore
A pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition.
Votes: 10,345 | Gross: $14,537
Stars: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant
9. The Barkleys of Broadway 1949
Passed | 1h 49min
A married musical team splits up so the wife can become a serious actress.
Votes: 2,812
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant
10. Billy Elliot 2000
R | 1h 50min
Metascore
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
Votes: 128,506 | Gross: $109,283,018
Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood
11. Bojangles 2001
TV-14 | 1h 41min
The life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African-American tap-dancing star of stage and screen.
Votes: 303
Stars: Gregory Hines, Peter Riegert, Kimberly Elise
12. Brigadoon 1954
Passed | 1h 48min
Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.
Votes: 7,738
Stars: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse
13. The Broadway Melody 1929
Passed | 1h 40min
A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
Votes: 6,628
Stars: Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King
14. Broadway Melody of 1936 1935
Passed | 1h 41min
Bob Gordon is staging a new Broadway Show. He gets an offer of money by Lillian, if she can dance in his show. Gordon's old class mate Irene, tries to get the leading role in this show, but Lillian insists in getting this part herself.
Votes: 1,561
Stars: Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor
15. Broadway Melody of 1938 1937
Passed | 1h 50min
Steve Raleigh wants to produce a show on Broadway. He finds a backer, Herman Whipple and a leading lady, Sally Lee, however his wife Caroline Whipple forces Steve to use a known star, not a...
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Votes: 1,085
Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy
16. Broadway Melody of 1940 1940
Passed | 1h 42min
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to gives him the name of his partner.
Votes: 2,170
Stars: Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy
17. Burlesque 2010
PG-13 | 1h 59min
Metascore
A small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.
Votes: 80,189 | Gross: $89,520,336
Stars: Cher, Christina Aguilera, Alan Cumming
18. Carefree 1938
Passed | 1h 23min
A psychiatrist falls in love with the woman he's supposed to be nudging into marriage with someone else.
Votes: 3,514
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy
19. Center Stage 2000
PG-13 | 1h 55min
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A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
Votes: 19,263 | Gross: $26,385,941
Stars: Amanda Schull, Ethan Stiefel, Sascha Radetsky
20. Chicago 2002
PG-13 | 1h 53min
Metascore
Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
Votes: 218,988 | Gross: $306,776,732
Stars: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere
21. The Cotton Club 1984
R | 2h 7min
Metascore
Meet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner and guests (e.g. gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-30s Harlem.
Votes: 16,876 | Gross: $25,928,721
Stars: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane
22. Daddy Long Legs 1955
Approved | 2h 6min
A wealthy American has a chance encounter with a joyful young French woman, and anonymously pays for her education. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor, nicknaming him from the description given by some of her fellow orphans.
Votes: 3,530
Stars: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore
23. Dancer in the Dark 2000
R | 2h 20min
Metascore
An East European girl travels to the United States with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.
Votes: 104,031 | Gross: $40,058,182
Stars: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse
24. Dirty Dancing 1987
PG-13 | 1h 40min
Metascore
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
Votes: 209,309 | Gross: $214,577,242
Stars: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach
25. Feel the Beat
After failing to find success on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly is recruited to train a misfit group of young dancers for a big competition.
Gross: $207,678
Stars: Sofia Carson, Pamela MacDonald, Sonia Laplante
26. First Position 2011
Not Rated | 1h 35min
Metascore
A documentary that follows six young dancers from around the world as they prepare for the Youth America Grand Prix, one of the most prestigious ballet competitions in the world.
Votes: 3,297 | Gross: $1,730,824
Stars: Aran Bell, Rebecca Houseknecht, Joan Sebastian Zamora
27. Flashdance 1983
R | 1h 35min
Metascore
A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.
Votes: 49,015 | Gross: $92,921,203
Stars: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala
28. Flying Down to Rio 1933
Passed | 1h 29min
Metascore
A bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer.
Votes: 3,426
Stars: Dolores del Rio, Gene Raymond, Raul Roulien
29. Follow the Fleet 1936
Passed | 1h 50min
A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on liberty in San Francisco.
Votes: 4,005
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott
30. Footlight Parade 1933
Passed | 1h 44min
Metascore
Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.
Votes: 5,005
Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
31. Footloose 1984
PG | 1h 47min
Metascore
A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
Votes: 72,179 | Gross: $80,039,064
Stars: Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow
32. The Gay Divorcee 1934
Approved | 1h 47min
Metascore
A woman thinks a flirting man is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to expedite her divorce.
Votes: 7,182 | Gross: $6,253
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady
33. Grease 1978
PG | 1h 50min
Metascore
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?
Votes: 247,573 | Gross: $396,271,103
Stars: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing
34. Hairspray 1988
PG | 1h 32min
Metascore
A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
Votes: 20,220 | Gross: $6,673,032
Stars: Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine
35. Happy Feet 2006
PG | 1h 48min
Metascore
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
Votes: 173,062 | Gross: $384,336,108
Stars: Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman
36. Holiday Inn 1942
Passed | 1h 40min
At an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.
Votes: 13,701
Stars: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds
37. Hooray for Love 1935
Approved | 1h 12min
A young man with money falls for singer Pat Thatcher, and her con man father makes the most of it.
Votes: 139
Stars: Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Bill Robinson
38. It's Always Fair Weather 1955
Passed | 1h 41min
Three soldiers meet ten years after their last meeting in New York, and find out that they have little in common now.
Votes: 3,135
Stars: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
39. Just Around the Corner 1938
Passed | 1h 10min
Shirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with bill "Bojangles" robinson. Based on paul gerard smith's book, "Lucky penny".
Votes: 560
Stars: Shirley Temple, Joan Davis, Charles Farrell
40. The Little Colonel 1935
Approved | 1h 21min
In the post-Civil war south, a darling little girl attempts to restore the peace between her parents and her plantation owner grandfather.
Votes: 1,514
Stars: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable
41. The Littlest Rebel 1935
Approved | 1h 13min
Shirley Temple's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the ...
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Votes: 1,405
Stars: Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt
42. Mad Hot Ballroom 2005
PG | 1h 45min
Metascore
The students of several New York City elementary schools learn ballroom dancing and compete in a city wide dance competition.
Votes: 3,383 | Gross: $9,104,327
Stars: Heather Berman, Emma Therese Biegacki, Eva Carrozza
43. Mao's Last Dancer 2009
PG | 1h 57min
Metascore
In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.
Votes: 7,538 | Gross: $23,914,731
Stars: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan
44. Night and Day 1946
Approved | 2h 8min
A fictionalized biopic of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Votes: 2,700
Stars: Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley
45. On the Town 1949
Passed | 1h 38min
Metascore
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Votes: 16,336
Stars: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett
46. The Pajama Game 1957
Approved | 1h 41min
An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand for a pay raise.
Votes: 3,195
Stars: Doris Day, John Raitt, Carol Haney
47. Pardon My Sarong 1942
Passed | 1h 24min
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
Votes: 2,165
Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce
48. Pennies from Heaven 1981
R | 1h 48min
Metascore
During the Great Depression, a sheet-music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.
Votes: 5,258 | Gross: $9,171,289
Stars: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper
49. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1938
Approved | 1h 21min
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
Votes: 1,503
Stars: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley
50. Roberta 1935
Passed | 1h 46min
Metascore
An American jazzman and his buddy woo a Russian princess and a fake countess in Paris.
Votes: 2,993 | Gross: $2,493
Stars: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
51. Royal Wedding 1951
Not Rated | 1h 33min
A brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in London during the Royal Wedding.
Votes: 4,940
Stars: Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford
52. Saturday Night Fever 1977
R | 1h 58min
Metascore
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.
Votes: 73,641 | Gross: $237,113,184
Stars: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller
53. Save the Last Dance 2001
PG-13 | 1h 52min
Metascore
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.
Votes: 58,418 | Gross: $131,706,809
Stars: Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas, Kerry Washington
54. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954
Approved | 1h 42min
Metascore
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
Votes: 21,731
Stars: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards
55. Singin' in the Rain 1952
G | 1h 43min
Metascore
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
Votes: 223,359 | Gross: $1,865,056
Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds
56. Shall We Dance 1937
Approved | 1h 49min
A ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes, then fall in love.
Votes: 6,678 | Gross: $6,662
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
57. The Sound of Music 1965
G | 2h 52min
Metascore
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
Votes: 210,913 | Gross: $159,428,329
Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
58. Stage Door 1937
Approved | 1h 32min
A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.
Votes: 7,703 | Gross: $8,835
Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou
59. Step Up 2006
PG-13 | 1h 44min
Metascore
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.
Votes: 112,200 | Gross: $114,197,742
Stars: Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan Tatum, Damaine Radcliff
60. Stepping Out 1991
PG | 1h 46min
Directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Liza Minnelli, written by Richard Harris and based on a play also written by Harris. Minnelli plays the role of a has-been Broadway performer who gives tap lesson to a group of misfits.
Votes: 1,058 | Gross: $246,000
Stars: Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters, Robyn Stevan
61. Stomp the Yard 2007
PG-13 | 1h 55min
Metascore
When his brother is murdered, a street dancer moves to Georgia to work his way through college. He joins a fraternity's step dancing team for a competition. Will he also get an education and the girl?
Votes: 21,864 | Gross: $75,511,123
Stars: Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Ne-Yo
62. Stormy Weather 1943
Passed | 1h 18min
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Votes: 2,070
Stars: Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway
63. Swing Time 1936
Not Rated | 1h 43min
Metascore
Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.
Votes: 12,626 | Gross: $5,379
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore
64. Tap 1989
PG-13 | 1h 51min
Just released from prison, Max Washington must decide which of his previous professions to return to: burglar or tap dancer.
Votes: 1,444 | Gross: $9,114,702
Stars: Gregory Hines, Suzzanne Douglas, Sammy Davis Jr.
65. Thoroughly Modern Millie 1967
G | 2h 18min
Millie Dillmount comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter flappers, sexuality, and white slavers.
Votes: 6,051
Stars: Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore
66. Top Hat 1935
Not Rated | 1h 41min
Metascore
An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.
Votes: 17,818 | Gross: $5,541
Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton
67. The Turning Point 1977
PG | 1h 59min
Metascore
When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.
Votes: 4,298 | Gross: $25,933,445
Stars: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov
68. West Side Story 1961
Approved | 2h 33min
Metascore
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Votes: 99,368 | Gross: $44,063,177
Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer
69. White Christmas 1954
Not Rated | 2h
Metascore
A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
Votes: 34,769 | Gross: $1,099,207
Stars: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney
70. White Nights 1985
PG-13 | 2h 16min
Metascore
A Russian American ballet dancer's airplane is forced to land in USSR, where he's "repatriated". He stays with an American man married to a Russian. Will the American help him flee USSR?
Votes: 6,851 | Gross: $42,160,849
Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski
71. Xanadu 1980
PG | 1h 36min
Metascore
A struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.
Votes: 12,352 | Gross: $22,762,571
Stars: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck
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