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| Beat Street |
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Film | Jun 6, 1984 | Stan Lathan |
Beat Street is a 1984 mainstream hip hop dramatic feature film, and the second following Breakin'. It is set in New York City during the popularity rise of hip hop culture in the early 1980s.
The movie was the East Coast answer to the Los Angeles...
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| Breakin' |
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Film | May 4, 1984 |
Breakin is a 1984 movie directed by Joel Silberg. It was also released under the title Breakdance: The Movie in some international locations. The film is a retelling of West Side Story.
The film setting was inspired by a German documentary entitled...
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| Center Stage |
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Film | May 12, 2000 | Nicholas Hytner |
Center Stage, directed by Nicholas Hytner in 2000, is about a group of young dancers from various backgrounds who enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York City. The film explores the issues and difficulties in the world of professional...
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| Step Up |
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Film | Aug 11, 2006 | Anne Fletcher |
Step Up is a 2006 dance/romance film directed by Anne Fletcher starring Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan.
The film follows the tale of the disadvantaged Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) and the privileged modern dancer Nora Clark (Jenna Dewan), who find...
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| Step Up 2 |
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Film | 2008 |
Step Up 2 the Streets (aka Step Up 2: The Streets) is the 2008 sequel to Step Up from Touchstone Pictures. The movie was directed by Jon Chu, and choreographed by Jamal Sims, Hi-Hat (Bring It On) and Dave Scott (Stomp the Yard). Patrick Wachsberger...
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| Fast Forward |
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Film | 1985 | Sidney Poitier |
Fast Forward is a 1985 dance film directed by Sidney Poitier. A dance troup from Ohio comes to New York to compete in a national talent competition.
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| Save the Last Dance |
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Film | Jan 12, 2001 | Thomas Carter |
Save the Last Dance is a 2001 drama movie produced by MTV Films, directed by Thomas Carter, written by Duane Adler, and released by Paramount Pictures on January 12, 2001. The film stars Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas as a teenage interracial...
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| Save the Last Dance 2 |
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Film | Oct 10, 2006 | David Petrarca |
Save the Last Dance 2 (earlier known as Steppin' Up: Save the Last Dance 2) is a direct-to-video sequel to 2001's theatrical feature Save the Last Dance. It was released to DVD on October 10, 2006 by Paramount Home Entertainment and MTV. While...
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| You Got Served |
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Film | Chris Stokes |
You Got Served is a 2004 drama film written and directed by Chris Stokes, manager of its stars, recording artist Marques Houston and the members of boy band B2K. The plot concerns a group of dancers, participating in a breakdancing crew, who take...
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| Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo |
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Film | Dec 21, 1984 | Sam Firstenberg |
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is the sequel to the 1984 breakdancing film Breakin'. It was released the same year as its predecessor by Cannon Films. In some international locations, the movie was released under the title ''Breakdance 2: Electric...
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| Wild Style |
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Film | 1982 | Charlie Ahearn |
Wild Style was the first hip hop motion picture. Released independently in 1982 by First Run Features and later re-released for home video by Rhino Home Video, the movie featured Fab Five Freddy, Lee Quinones, the Rock Steady Crew, The Cold Crush...
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| Flashdance |
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Film | Apr 15, 1983 | Adrian Lyne |
Flashdance is a musical/romance film released in April 1983, and was one of the most successful films of the early 1980s. The film was the first collaboration of producer Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and its presentation of some sequences in...
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| Honey |
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Film | 2003 | Bille Woodruff |
Honey is a 2003 motion picture released by Universal Pictures. Featuring music produced by Rodney Jerkins, the film stars Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Lil' Romeo, Joy Bryant, Missy Elliott and David Moscow. A number of popular hip hop and R&B;...
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| Saturday Night Fever |
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Film | Dec 14, 1977 | John Badham |
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 film starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a local discothèque. While in the disco, Tony is the king, and the visits help him to...
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| Staying Alive |
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Film | Jul 11, 1983 | Sylvester Stallone |
Staying Alive is the 1983 sequel to Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta as the main character Tony Manero, Cynthia Rhodes, Finola Hughes, Joyce Hyser, Steve Inwood, Julie Bovasso, and dancers Viktor Manoel, Kate Ann Wright, Kevyn Morrow and...
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| Strictly Ballroom |
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Film | Aug 20, 1992 | Baz Luhrmann |
Strictly Ballroom is the name of a 1986 play and its 1992 film adaptation. The play was written by Baz Luhrmann and Andrew Bovell, and film by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce. The film was directed by Luhrmann. The film's tagline is: "A life lived in...
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| Xanadu |
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Film | Aug 8, 1980 | Robert Greenwald |
Xanadu is a 1980 musical/romance film directed by Robert Greenwald. It is an unofficial remake of the 1947 film Down to Earth starring Rita Hayworth. The title of the film is a reference to the poem "Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment."...
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| Dance with Me |
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Film | Randa Haines |
Dance with Me is a 1998 comedy on love and dance directed by Randa Haines and starring Vanessa L. Williams and Puerto Rican singer Chayanne.
After burying his mother, charming but broody Rafael Infante (Chayanne) comes from Santiago, Cuba to...
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| Shall We Dance? |
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Film | Oct 15, 2004 | Peter Chelsom |
Shall We Dance? is an American motion picture released in 2004. It is a remake of the award-winning Masayuki Suo 1996 Japan film, Shall We Dansu?.
It was rated PG-13 by the MPAA. It has a runtime of about 106 min. The film had a US gross of just...
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| Shall We Dance |
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Film | Jan 27, 1996 | Masayuki Suo |
Shall We Dance? is a 1996 award - winning Japanese film. Its original Japanese title is which refers to the earlier 1934 movie "Shall We Dance" starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. It may also refer to the song, "Shall We Dance" in Rodgers and...
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| Bootmen |
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Bootmen is a 2000 Australia Comedy/Drama/Musical film, directed by Dein Perry. It was distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures in Canada and USA and 20th Century Fox Distribution in Australia and funded by the Australian Film Finance Corporation....
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| Bring It On |
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Film | Aug 22, 2000 | Peyton Reed |
Bring It On (2000) is a film about a high school cheerleading squad, starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku and Gabrielle Union. It was directed by Peyton Reed and written by Jessica Bendinger.
The film was followed by three straight to video sequels...
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| A Chorus Line |
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Film | Dec 10, 1985 | Richard Attenborough |
A Chorus Line is a 1985 American musical film directed by Richard Attenborough. The screenplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the Tony Award-winning book of the 1975 stage production of the same name by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante. The songs...
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| All That Jazz |
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Film | Dec 20, 1979 | Bob Fosse |
All That Jazz is a Palme D'Or winning 1979 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of the dancer, choreographer, and director's life and career....
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| Body Rock | Film | 1984 |
Body Rock is a 1984 film directed by Marcelo Epstein about guy from the streets with a talent for break-dancing. Its stars Lorenzo Lamas as the lead role of 'Chilly'.
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| Cabaret |
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Film | Oct 1972 | Bob Fosse |
Cabaret is a 1972 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, before the rise of the Nazis under Adolf Hitler.
The film is loosely...
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| Damn Yankees |
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Film | 1950 | George Abbott |
Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when...
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| Dancers | Film | 1987 | Herbert Ross |
Dancers is a 1987 film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Mikhail Baryshnikov as Tony and Julie Kent as Lisa.
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| Dirty Dancing |
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Film | Aug 21, 1987 | Emile Ardolino |
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 romance film credited as being one of the most watched films of all time. Written by Eleanor Bergstein, the film features Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Rhodes, and Jerry Orbach. The story details the moment of time...
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| How She Move |
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Film | Jan 25, 2008 | Ian Iqbal Rashid |
How She Move [sic] is 2008 Canadian film directed by Ian Iqbal Rashid and starring Rutina Wesley, Clé Bennett and Romina D'Ugo. The film showcases the emerging street culture of step dancing. The film is produced by Celluloid Dreams, Sienna Films...
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