Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood. It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local discothèque while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment in his working class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn. The story is based on "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", a mostly fictional 1976 article by music writer Nik Cohn.
Theatrical release poster
Movie poster of the PG version of Saturday Night Fever
Some films feature recognizable dance forms, demonstrating them, shedding light on their origin, or being the base of a plot.
Poster for 'The Red Shoes' (1948)
Rudolph Valentino dancing the tango in 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse', a movie that popularized the dance internationally.
Gene Kelly in Singin' In The Rain