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Plot Summary:
The Chocolate City dancers come together to save their club from foreclosure. They decide to enter a national stripper competition, traveling all the way to Las Vegas to try their luck.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Natarang (2010)
Plot Summary:
Guna is a village labourer in the hinterlands of Maharashtra. Holding a passion for the 'tamasha' theatre shows, he decides to start his own troupe. Instead of the prestigious role of the king he always dreamed of, he ends up having to play a 'nachya', an effeminate, homosexual man. He goes ahead with the decision, which forever changes him and his family, as he ends up torn between his artistic passion and his societal prestige.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Madhouse Mecca (2018)
Plot Summary:
When an underwhelmed housewife meets a mischievous exotic dancer with a taste for trouble, an unlikely friendship is formed that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jane McCoy, a recent college graduate, much to her parent's dismay, decides to scrap her plans for law school to pursue an acting career full-time. Struggling to make ends meet, she meets a confident and persuasive friend who shows her the way to make extra money go-go dancing. What starts as just an "easy money" job, however, rapidly becomes an all-consuming activity that slowly pulls Jane from her acting classes, her relationships with her boyfriend and family, and, most importantly, from her true self.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, disturbing
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CQ2 (Seek You Too) (2004)
Plot Summary:
CQ2 (seek you too) is the story of an teenager, with an uncertain future, who canalises her lust for life in the study of contemporary dance.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Bridge Part 2 (2016)
Plot Summary:
The second-half of the movie picks up in the present day, seven years later, with Ryan returning home from being on the road touring as a professional singer and Molly working at her father's corporation.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Big Leap (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follow a group of diverse, down-on-their-luck characters attempting to change their lives by participating in a potentially life-ruining reality dance show that builds to a live production of “Swan Lake.”.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing, touching
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8 Slices (2019)
Plot Summary:
A new hire joins a small town pizza restaurant just as the business fails and its employees question the "American Dream.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Dancehall Queen (1997)
Plot Summary:
Street vendor Marcia is scraping together a living in the ghetto section of Kingston, Jamaica. Her young daughter is being hounded by a rich sugar daddy who has been supporting the family; her brother's life is being threatened by a local thug. So, when the licentious patron threatens to abandon the family, and her brother breaks down under pressure, Marcia hits bottom. She needs to escape to a haven where she can get lost in fantasy; Marcia, don in sex-me-up clothing and outrageous glamour, finds refuge in the beats of the very dance hall outside of which she normally vends.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Drama
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic, disturbing, semi serious
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Break (2018)
Plot Summary:
Lucie, a young dancer suffers an accident. When she wakes up from a coma, she and her partner start training for a dance show. On the way, she starts looking for her estranged father, a path that might lead her to life-changing love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Savage Rhythm (2022)
Plot Summary:
The opposite worlds of two dancers in Colombia clash on and off the dance floor when their ambition to succeed leads them down a treacherous path.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Colombia
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Out of Step (2002)
Plot Summary:
Graced with the instinctive ability to dance, Jenny Thomas wants nothing more than to become a professional dancer. All of her hard work pays off when she is accepted to a prominent dance program in New York. Against her mother's will, but with the support of her father Jenny leaves her small Mormon town in Utah and heads to New York in pursuit of her dream. Jenny must fight to earn her scholarship and try to find a balance between the man of her faith and the man of her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Maya Dardel (2017)
Plot Summary:
An internationally respected poet announces she is going to kill herself and needs an heir and executor. Young writers drive up the mountain to compete for the position and are challenged intellectually, emotionally, and erotically.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story (2017)
Plot Summary:
"Hit A Lick," tells the tragic story of Falicia Blakely, a teen mom who grows up in the fast-lane. When she becomes an exotic dancer, she attracts the attention of local pimp and predator, Dino. His empty promises of a life together turns Falicia into a pawn in his dangerous games; and she's forced to prove her love for him at the expense of innocent lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Chocolate City (2015)
Plot Summary:
Life for a struggling college student changes in an instant when he meets the owner of a male strip club who convinces him to give amateur night a whirl.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, captivating, entertaining
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The Street Where We Live (2019)
Plot Summary:
"I'm just two paychecks away from being on the street." In the aftermath of the nation's financial crisis, Mary, a single mom with two kids, finds herself faced with that exact situation when the factory where she works closes their doors for good. Providing for her children and keeping the family together, while also maintaining some form of dignity in the process, proves to be the hardest job that Mary will ever have.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III (2018)
Plot Summary:
It’s 1786 and King George III is the most powerful man in the world. But his behaviour is becoming increasingly erratic as he succumbs to fits of lunacy. With the King’s mind unravelling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown, and expose the fine line between a King and a man.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Chippendales Murder (2000)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Steve Banjerlee who started a sleazy male strip club for women. Several years later he meets Nick De Noia, a choreographer whom he goes into partnership with to turn his nightclub into a successful high-class business that eventually leads to betrayal and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Upstarts (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to do good while making millions, three college graduates create a startup. But as business begins to flourish, their own bond starts to fray.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Death of a Vegas Showgirl (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two talented dancers become swept up in a tumultuous association that spirals into compulsion.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Birds of Paradise (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two dancers at an elite ballet academy in Paris must compete for a contract to join the highly coveted Opéra National de Paris as they confront their competitive nature, sexual awakenings and how far they would go to win.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, touching, teen
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1st Time 16mm (2008)
Plot Summary:
Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, Venice, Paris and Madrid.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, experimental, disturbing
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The Gravedigger's Wife (2021)
Plot Summary:
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Battle of the Year (2013)
Plot Summary:
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, captivating, serious, vintage
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Beats (2019)
Plot Summary:
An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: inspirational, psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, hood
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Battle: Freestyle (2022)
Plot Summary:
Amalie and Mikael lead their street dance team to the finals in France but tough competition and personal distractions threaten to ruin their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Secret Lives of Cheerleaders (2019)
Plot Summary:
Naturally-gifted cheerleader Ava is an instant hit at her new school, but her quick rise in popularity is threatened by the rivalry of cheer captain and Homecoming Queen Katrina, who puts Ava and the other new recruits through a brutal initiation process, leaving Ava to face consequences both at school and at home.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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The Flight of the Swan (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and everything he loves: even his children and his soul mate Maria. Alexis is jolted back to reality when the unbridled greed of the multinational conglomerate his company is involved in causes an unprecedented ecological catastrophe costing many human lives. The multinational's Golden Boy suddenly realizes that he is nothing more than a cog in the machine he had fought so passionately against in his youth. He is determined to rediscover himself, to reclaim his soul, to rebuild the dream with Maria - but he is completely trapped. He is caught in a web of intrigue that tightens like a vice driving him to an inevitably lethal conflict with the conglomerate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, bleak
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Jyouou (2005)
Plot Summary:
Fujisaki Aya is a young college student whose family is 150 million yen in debt after her father's corporation went bankrupt. To earn the money, she enters the Hostess Grand Prix.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Plot Summary:
Desperate characters stake their fortune on a Depression-era dance marathon.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: depressing, atmospheric, emotional, disturbing, bleak, talky, serious, captivating, gloomy, cynical
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Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie (2002)
Plot Summary:
Moyher's good boy Benny Silman from Brooklyn becomes an economics student at Arizona State University for the sun and sexy girls- and the proximity of gambling paradise Las Vegas. Benny aces his studies, being a mathematical genius, but the one who earns money from him at sports is bookie Troy, who however recruits him as subcontractor, making a few thousand for himself. The next year Benny starts for himself, with a few dozen student vassals, and makes a hundredfold.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, captivating