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Plot Summary:
When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the schools hottest dancer, Chase, to form a crew of classmate outcasts to compete in Baltimore s underground dance battle The Streets.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, teen, inspirational, entertaining, captivating, serious, realistic, hood, light, exciting
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Dance Academy (2010)
Plot Summary:
At Sydney's National Dance Academy, a few talented youngsters are recruited for the excruciatingly tough course. It follows Tara Webster, a sheepfarmgirl who's ambition is to be the next best ballerina. Jewish long line of doctors' heir Samuel 'Sammy' and minor juvenile offender Christian are the outsiders but gradually fit in, making new kinds of friends. Star ballerina's daughter Kat also introduces them in the circle of last-year brother Ethan, who already aspires a career as choreographer. Also Abigail, a smart young girl who'll walk over dead bodies to reach the stars tries to sabotage everything and everyone.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating
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Let's Dance (2019)
Plot Summary:
After his crew breaks up, a gifted but insecure hip-hop dancer teaches at a top ballet school in Paris, where he falls for an aspiring ballerina.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Dance-Off (2014)
Plot Summary:
DANCE-OFF is a tongue-in-cheek family comedy set in the world of competition dancing starring talented dancers and choreographers from TV’s “So You Think You Can Dance!” Two rival studios pick their stars Jasmine and Brandon to compete against each other for a $25,000 prize. Jasmine and Brandon have history. They were dance partners and mutual crushes as children. But Brandon quickly moved away not allowed to say goodbye to the heartbroken Jasmine. Luckily, both kept up their dancing. Years later Jasmine shines at the well-funded Diamond Dance Studios and deals with her crazy “dance mom” Jo-Ann . Brandon leads rival Shockwave Studio that desperately needs the $25,000 to stop it from closing. Unable to deny their feelings and both wanting to win, the star-crossed lovers feel pressure from Jo-Ann, competition owner Mary , and her son JT to triumph at all costs. How can they compete against the person they love?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sincere, serious, captivating, disturbing
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Save the Last Dance 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sara joins Julliard in New York to fulfill her and her mother's dream of becoming the Prima ballerina of the school. She befriends her roommates, Zoe and Miles, who teach hip-hop classes. She has ballet classes with the rigid and famous Monique Delacroix that she idolizes - Monique requires full commitment, discipline and hard work from her students. When Miles, who is a composer, invites Sara to help him compose the music for the dance choreography Sara's passion for hip-hop is sparked and she also falls in love with Miles. When she is assigned to perform Giselle in an important event, she feels divided between the technique of the ballet and the creative work offered by Miles.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, serious, realistic, teen
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High Strung (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common ground while preparing for a competition that could change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, sweet, entertaining, happy
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Center Stage: Turn It Up (2008)
Plot Summary:
All self-taught dancer Kate Parker has ever wanted to do was perform with the American Academy of Ballet. But when she doesnt make it after auditioning, she learns that it takes more than precision and perfection to succeed in the dance world.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, motivational, funny, sex comedy, teen, realistic, semi serious
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Beat the World (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three dance crews – one Latin American, one European and one Canadian – prepare to battle at the International Beat the World competition in Detroit. Along the way, they struggle with gambling debt, bad break-ups and their own egos. In the final showdown to become world champions they find that their lifelong hopes, dreams and even lives, are at stake.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, exciting, serious, independent film
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Body Language (2011)
Plot Summary:
An hour before the five best Dutch dance crews fly to a contest in New York, the subsidized trip is cancelled. Five dancers from totally different crews don't want to give up their free plane ticket and go anyway. In New York they realize what they've done. They have no money, no plan and no crew. But... They came to dance so there is only one thing to do. Together they form a new crew and do everything they can to enter the contest they came for. In the mean time... they have to survive two weeks in New York without any cash. Written by Tijs van Marle.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, serious, realistic
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Flashdance (1983)
Plot Summary:
The popular 1980’s dance movie that depicts the life of an exotic dancer with a side job as a welder who true desire is to get into ballet school. It’s her dream to be a professional dancer and now is her chance. The film has a great soundtrack with an Oscar winning song.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, teen, retro, erotic, inspirational, romantic, sweet, serious, stylized, feel good
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You Got Served (2004)
Plot Summary:
At Mr. Rad's Warehouse, the best hip-hop crews in Los Angeles compete for money and respect. But when a suburban crew crashes the party, stealing their dancers - and their moves - two warring friends have to pull together to represent the street. Starring hip-hop sensations Marques Houston, Omari Grandberry, Lil' Kim and comedian Steve Harvey.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: intense, stylized, humorous, hood, inspirational, entertaining, serious, realistic, sexy, melancholic
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Save the Last Dance (2001)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, sweet, romantic, teen, cute, entertaining, thought provoking, sex comedy, tragic ending, multicultural
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Let It Shine (2012)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a shy, talented musician who pens romantic hip-hop verses only to stand idly by as they're delivered to the girl of his dreams by a proxy, his best friend. Made for Disney Channel movie/.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Battlefield America (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young businessman hires an instructor to turn a group of misfit kids into a team on the underground dance competition circuit.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, inspirational, psychological, captivating, exciting, serious
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Stomp the Yard (2007)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: inspirational, intense, captivating, exciting, touching, hood, serious, realistic, independent film, erotic
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Step Up Revolution (2012)
Plot Summary:
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, entertaining, teen, light, serious, captivating, realistic, grindhouse, sexy
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Step Up (2006)
Plot Summary:
Everyone deserves a chance to follow their dreams, but some people only get one shot. Tyler Gage is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore's tracks and the only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day making it out of there. Nora is a privileged ballet dancer attending Baltimore's ultra-elite Maryland School of the Arts.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 125000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, teen, sweet, romantic, entertaining, hood, sexy, sentimental, inspirational
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Feel the Noise (2007)
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After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob flees to a place and father he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin beats. Puerto Rico, the spiritual home of Reggaeton, inspires Rob and his step-brother Javi to pursue their dream of becoming Reggaeton stars. Together with a dancer named C.C., they learn what it means to stay true to themselves and each other, while overcoming obstacles in love, greed and pride, all culminating in an explosive performance at New York’s Puerto Rican Day Parade.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, hood, serious
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Plot Summary:
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom dancer, Pierre Dulane.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sexy, entertaining, captivating, feel good, teen, spiritual, epic, educational, sincere
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Raise Your Voice (2004)
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Raise Your Voice is a coming-of-age story centered around a small-town singer, brokenhearted by the death of her brother in a car crash, who had secretly submitted her for a summer session at a performing arts academy in Los Angeles. In the performing arts academy, she experiences a whole new way of life in the big city, far from the small town lifestyle she's used to.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, teen, romantic, inspirational, sweet, romantic comedy, cute, sentimental, touching, predictable
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Dirty Dancing (1987)
Plot Summary:
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer – and unexpectedly falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 250000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, sexy, sentimental, touching, romantic, cute, erotic, teen, period piece, romantic comedy
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Step Up All In (2014)
Plot Summary:
All-stars from the previous Step Up installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, entertaining, teen, captivating, feel good, erotic, sexy, light, realistic, serious
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StreetDance 2 (2012)
Plot Summary:
After suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, stylized, romantic, exciting
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Step Up 3D (2010)
Plot Summary:
A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, teen, serious, exciting, hood, feel good, breathtaking, inspirational, realistic
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Honey 3: Dare to Dance (2016)
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While attending college in Cape Town, Melea Martin feels constrained by the school's strict policies, and decides to set out on her own. Searching for a way to use her talents as a dancer and inspire the community around her, Melea rents a failing theater in order to put on a Hip-Hop Romeo and Juliet performance. But much like the Capulets and Montagues, conflicts between cast members threaten to bring the whole performance to a halt.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: inspirational, romantic, entertaining, feel good
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StreetDance 3D (2010)
Plot Summary:
In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, realistic, sexy, inspirational, sweet, captivating, entertaining, romantic, exciting
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Footloose (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, teen, entertaining, absurd, sincere, serious, intense, humorous, cute
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Honey (2003)
Plot Summary:
Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep kids off the streets. Honey thinks she's hit the jackpot when she meets a hotshot director (David Moscow) who casts her in one of his music videos. But, when he starts demanding sexual favors from her, Honey makes a decision that will change her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, inspirational, teen, exciting, semi serious, romantic, entertaining, feel good, humorous, serious
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Coyote Ugly (2000)
Plot Summary:
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. The "Coyotes" as they are affectionately called tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics, making Coyote Ugly the watering hole for guys on the prowl.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 120000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
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Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Plot Summary:
Tony Manero is a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another, white-suited Tony struts his stuff amidst flashing lights and sweaty, undulating bodies. Tony's class aspirations are mirrored in his relationship with his dance partner, a secretary eager to move into the glamorous world of Manhattan.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sexy, rough, light, serious, captivating, realistic, cult classic, teen, stylized
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Another Cinderella Story (2008)
Plot Summary:
A guy who danced with what could be the girl of his dreams at a costume ball only has one hint at her identity: the Zune she left behind as she rushed home in order to make her curfew. And with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of him, he sets out to find his masked beauty.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
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