Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas. It soon becomes clear Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby is the biggest hope for the studio at the championship.

Dog Daze

1937

English

5.9

♡ 6

Friz Freleng Director

Mel Blanc as Police Dog

Sons of the Pioneers as Singers

Billy Bletcher as St. Bernard

Purv Pullen as Vocal Effects

A series of gags at a dog show, including a stage revue. A dog gets into a trunk of roller skates and crashes through the stage show.

Honey

2003

English

5.3

♡ 56

19%

Bille Woodruff Director

Mekhi Phifer as Chaz

Joy Bryant as Gina

Jessica Alba as Honey Daniels

Sarah Francis as Letitia

Honey Daniels 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 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.

Cats

2019

English

2.8

♡ 51

19%

53%

Action

based on play or musical

based on song, poem or rhyme

Tom Hooper Director

Ray Winstone as Growltiger

Ian McKellen as Gus The Theatre Cat

Rebel Wilson as Jennyanydots

Idris Elba as Macavity

A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.

The Starling Girl

2023

English

6.7

♡ 14

92%

Laurel Parmet Director

Austin Abrams as Ben Taylor

Lewis Pullman as Owen Taylor

Jimmi Simpson as Paul Starling

Claire Elizabeth Green as Rebecca Starling

17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

2008

English

6.7

♡ 135

Eric Darnell Director

Ben Stiller as Alex

Andy Richter as Mort

Will.i.am as Moto Moto

Danny Jacobs as Tourist with New York T-Shirt

Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane. The precariously repaired craft stays airborne just long enough to make it to the African continent. There the New Yorkers encounter members of their own species for the first time. Africa proves to be a wild place, but Alex and company wonder if it is better than their Central Park home.

Shall We Dance?

2004

English

6.2

♡ 37

46%

husband wife relationship

Peter Chelsom Director

Susan Sarandon as Beverly Clark

Richard Gere as John Clark

Stanley Tucci as Link

Nick Cannon as Scott

A bored estate lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.

Rise

2022

French

7.1

♡ 3

Cédric Klapisch Director

Muriel Robin as Josiane

Damien Chapelle as Julien

Pio Marmaï as Loïc

François Civil as Yann

Elise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheating on her with her stage backup; and after she suffers an injury on stage, it seems like she might not be able to dance ever again.

Footloose

2011

English

5.9

♡ 59

68%

Craig Brewer Director

Timothy J. Richardson as Chuck's Gang

Dennis Quaid as Rev. Shaw Moore

Andie MacDowell as Vi Moore

Miles Teller as Willard

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.

La La Land

2016

English

♡ 939

91%

Damien Chazelle Director

J.K. Simmons as Bill

Robert Roldan as Epilogue Dancer

Emma Stone as Mia

Ryan Gosling as Sebastian

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

White Nights

1957

Italian

7.7

♡ 12

89%

88%

dance

Drama

foreign language adaptation

italy

love

older man younger woman relationship

Romance

unrequited love

Luchino Visconti Director

Enzo Doria as Il marinaio che balla

Giorgio Albertazzi as L'inquilino / Narratore

Marcello Mastroianni as Mario

Maria Schell as Natalia

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

Step Up 3D

2010

English

6.2

♡ 82

Jon M. Chu Director

Harry Shum Jr. as Cable

Ally Maki as Jenny

Mark Blum as NYU Professor

Julie Nathanson as Singer

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.

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

2004

English

5.9

♡ 58

24%

Guy Ferland Director

John Slattery as Bert Miller

Diego Luna as Javier Suarez

Sela Ward as Jeannie Miller

Polly Cole as Polly

In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-approved suitor, Katey is drawn to the sexy waiter, Javier, who spends his nights dancing in Havana's nightclubs. As she secretly learns to dance with Javier, she learns the meanings of love, sensuality and independence.

Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses

2006

English

7.0

♡ 9

76%

Greg Richardson Director

Garry Chalk as Desmond

Chiara Zanni as Edeline

Christopher Gaze as King Randolph

Catherine O'Hara as Rowena

King Randolph sends for his cousin, Duchess Rowena, to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve and her eleven sisters, into royal material. But the Duchess strips the sisters of their fun, including their favorite pastime: dancing. When all hope may be lost, the sisters discover a secret passageway to a magical land where they can dance the night away.