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
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