1990s Dance Movies

18 movies found (page 1/1):

Showgirls(1995)

| 2h 11min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 561 votes)

A young drifter named Nomi arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer. When she catches the eye of Cristal, the main attraction at the Stardust stage show, Nomi is on the brink of realizing her dreams. But as she bumps and grinds her way to the top, she realizes that there is only room for one starlet on the marquee... and that either she or Cristal will have to take a fall!

Directed by Paul Verhoeven - With Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Robert Davi, Alan Rachins, Gina Ravera, ...

Strictly Ballroom(1992)

1h 34min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 144 votes)

Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?

Directed by Baz Luhrmann - With Paul Mercurio, Bill Hunter, Barry Otto, Gia Carides, Lauren Hewett, Tara Morice, ...

Dance with Me(1998)

2h 6min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 82 votes)

Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas. It soon becomes clear Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby is the biggest hope for the studio at the championship.

Directed by Randa Haines - With Vanessa Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Plowright, Jane Krakowski, Beth Grant, ...

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Dil To Pagal Hai(1997)

2h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy

3.4/5 (with 68 votes)

Rahul, the director of a successful dance troupe, considers Nisha his best friend, though secretly, she is madly in love with him. He then falls for Pooja, who is engaged to Ajay.

Directed by Yash Chopra - With Madhuri Dixit, Shah Rukh Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Farida Jalal, Yash Chopra, ...

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Shall We Dance?(1996)

2h 16min | Music, Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 58 votes)

A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.

Directed by Masayuki Suo - With Kōji Yakusho, Masahiro Motoki, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Reiko Kusamura, Eriko Watanabe, ...

The Forbidden Dance(1990)

1h 37min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.1/5 (with 40 votes)

A princess in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a conglomerate threatening the forests by going to Los Angeles. There she links up with a rich kid who tells her that she must get on television to succeed with her mission. Quick as a wink, the two come up with the idea of winning a lambada dance contest.

Directed by Greydon Clark - With Laura Harring, Pilar Del Rey

Taal(1999)

2h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 21 votes)

On a sight-seeing road trip of India, U.K. based Manav Mehta meets Mansi, the daughter of a singer, Tarababu. He is attracted to her, and makes his attraction known. She also is attracted to him eventually. Her dad approves of Manav, and both go to Bombay to meet his family. On their arrival itself, they are shunned and treated as second class citizens, and this lasts throughout the day.

Directed by Subhash Ghai - With Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Amrish Puri, Alok Nath

Lambada(1990)

1h 44min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 12 votes)

Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them academics. But when a jealous student exposes Kevin's double life, his two worlds collide, threatening his job and reputation.

Directed by Joel Silberg - With J. Eddie Peck

Tango(1998)

1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and bodly seductive dance film ever made. 1998 Oscar Nominee Best Foreign Language Film.

Directed by Carlos Saura - With Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecilia Narova, Mía Maestro, Juan Carlos Copes, Carlos Rivarola, Sandra Ballesteros, ...

Dance Macabre(1992)

1h 37min | Horror

1.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Jessica is an American ballerina who reluctantly enrols in a Russian dance academy, where she meets the charismatic choreographer Anthony. A dead ringer for Anthony's long dead lover, Jessica becomes Anthony's favourite student - and his personal obsession. But what should be the chance of a lifetime for Jessica becomes a living nightmare, as each of her fellow dancers is brutally murdered.

Directed by Greydon Clark - With Robert Englund

Forever Fever(1998)

1h 35min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Kung Fu meets disco in Singapore. Hock is a grocery clerk longing for a motorbike. He lives with his parents and sister; they idolize his younger brother, Beng, a medical student calling himself Leslie. Hock loves Bruce Lee; he works out and imitates his moves. When Hock sees a cheesy local version of "Saturday Night Fever," he gets the disco bug, taking his pal Mei to nightly lessons in hopes of winning a contest and buying the bike. He's blind to Mei's falling in love with him, and, at the last minute asks another woman to be his partner in the contest. Meanwhile, Beng reveals a personal secret to his family and a crisis ensues. Hock, Beng, Mei and her rival: it's Night Fever.

Directed by Glen Goei

Cinderella Baiana(1998)

1h 30min | Drama, Music, Comedy, Kids & Family, Romance / Love

0.7/5 (with 8 votes)

A poor family, lives in a city near Salvador. The father is cleaner and, mother and daughter help making small services. Until they decide to try the luck in the big city and the father, Raimundo, get a job near Pelourinho, next to a dance academy. The daughter, Carla, in contacting music, discovers her true vocation and becomes a very successful dancer. But she does not let himself take away from fame and back to his origins, meets with poor children and teaches them to dance.

With Carla Perez

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The Magic Shoes(1992)

1h 51min | Music, Comedy, Fantasy

The story of Tat, a young man who loves dance. One day, he possessed a shoe that had the super power created by lightning It made him a fiery dancer overnight.

Directed by Prachya Pinkaew

Flamenco(1995)

1h 40min | Documentary

3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba.

Directed by Carlos Saura - With José Luis Gómez, La Paquera de Jerez, Manolo Sanlúcar, Joaquín Cortés, Fernanda de Utrera, María Pagés, ...

The Complaint of an Empress(1990)

1h 43min | Documentary

3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

This first film by choreographer Pina Bausch reflects her method of working as developed with the Wuppertal Theatre of Dance during the 1973/74 season. The film does not tell a story, but is made up of various scenes put together as a collage with scenes set in different locations. The futility of human activity and the search for love make up the film's central theme set against the strains of a Silician funeral march. Filmed on location in Wuppertal, Germany, between October 1987 and April 1989.

Directed by Pina Bausch

Al corazón(1996)

1h 32min | Music

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Directed by Mario Sábato - With Libertad Lamarque, Alberto Castillo, Hugo del Carril, Olinda Bozán, Enrique Cadícamo, Tita Merello, ...

The Accompaniment(1991)

1h 26min | Drama

The story of Tuco, an amateur singer who thinks he sings like Carlos Gardel and locks himself in his room, waiting for a group of musicians to accompany him in a hypothetical television debut.

Directed by Carlos Orgambide - With María Rosa Gallo, Carlos Carella, Franklin Caicedo, Haydée Padilla, Ana María Giunta, Alberto Busaid, ...

Lodela(1996)

26min

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An evocation of the origins of the world. A hymn to the beauty of the human form. A celebration of movement. A metaphor for life and death. Lodela draws its inspiration from the Bardo Thodol, with the film's title a corruption of "l'au-delà," a French term for the hereafter.

Directed by Philippe Baylaucq - With José Navas