Movies and TvShows featuring "dancers" theme.
Ali, a small-town girl from Iowa, moves to Los Angeles in the hopes of pursuing her dreams. She stumbles upon a struggling burlesque nightclub and decides to become a dancer there. She faces financial troubles and rivalries but perseveres with her passion for music and dance.
In this comedy set in the 1960s, a musical troupe finds themselves on a yacht in the French Riviera. The group faces various challenges including misunderstandings, a police chase, and a discipline-focused choreographer. Along the way, they discover the importance of teamwork, discipline, and the power of music. The story also explores the teacher-student relationship between a ballet dancer and a single mother. With catchy pop music and lively dance numbers, 'The One Man Band' is a feel-good movie that will leave you humming and tapping your feet.
Join Kacey Musgraves as she celebrates the holiday season with a star-studded Christmas concert filled with music, comedy, and festive cheer.
Lust in the Dust is a campy comedy western that follows a group of eccentric characters on a quest for buried treasure. As they navigate saloons, shootouts, and Mexican standoffs, they encounter unexpected twists and hilarious situations. This film explores themes of family, love, and desire, all wrapped up in a wild and entertaining adventure.
Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones’s highly acclaimed dance Still/Here. At workshops around the country, people facing life-threatening illnesses are asked to remember the highs and lows of their lives, and even imagine their own deaths. They then transform their feelings into expressive movement, which Jones incorporates into the dance performed later in the program. For this documentary, Jones demonstrates the movements of his own life story: his first encounter with white people, confusion over his sexuality, his partner Arnie Zane’s untimely death from AIDS, and Jones’s own HIV-positive status.
Two lazy friends (Mimis Fotopoulos and Ntinos Iliopoulos) find a job as ice-cream vendors to pay their back rent. When they start giving ice-cream to poor children for free, their boss, incensed, chases them off, and they take refuge in a nightclub, where they disguise themselves as female dancers. One misunderstanding follows another, until the impresario seeks them out, offering them a job as a comedy routine.
When an earthquake strikes Bucharest, a group of eclectic characters find themselves in a chaotic tangle of relationships, singing, and dancing in an apartment building.
Two young strangers meet in Naples and begin to flirt and dance in the street.
This ultra-kitsch documentary goes behind the scenes at Murray's Cabaret Club, where Christine Keeler was later a showgirl.
Bertolt Brecht asked whether there would be singing in the dark times. In the throes of war, the United Ukrainian Ballet Company defiantly insists there will be dancing, too. Far from the land they call home, young dancers take quiet comfort from art. For a while, their work feels like the old days, except there is a new troupe member: a soldier learning to dance with prosthetic legs.
Check Your Body at the Door is a documentary film that explores the vibrant and competitive underground dance battle scene in New York City. Through interviews with legendary dancers and breathtaking performances, the film delves into the history, passion, and community that make up this unique subculture. It captures the energy and dedication of the dancers as they use dance as a form of self-expression and a way to escape the harsh realities of their lives. With stunning visuals and a captivating soundtrack, Check Your Body at the Door is a celebration of talent, artistry, and the power of dance.
A jewel thief decides to turn over a new leaf. He starts anew as a professional singer; but before long, the he becomes suspect again for a series of robberies. He sets up a trap to snare the copycat thief, but will it snare him instead?
Follow the lives of popular dancers at the World Famous Playground Dance Studio, in Los Angeles.
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.
Gangster Jim Boyd serves a 15-year prison term when Hardy, a rival crook, doublecrosses him. On his release from prison, Boyd seeks out Hardy in Chicago, where he runs a cafe and bootleg operation. He makes the acquaintance of Mona Gale, a dancer in Hardy's cafe who is engaged to marry Jack Waring, the orchestra leader. Unaware that Mona is his daughter, Boyd shoots Hardy in a brawl and leaves behind evidence implicating Waring as the murderer. After Hardy's death, Mona joins Boyd's gang to gather evidence proving her fiancé's innocence. The gang members discover that Mona has dealings with the police, and they begin to torture her. Having learned of Mona's relationship to him at the last minute, Boyd arrives at the gang's hideout in time to save her. He confesses to killing Hardy before he dies from a wound inflicted by one of his own gang, thus freeing Waring to marry Mona.
The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style. Effectively, they perform up to their expectations. However, as the army men have to march northward, their moment of glory finishes heartlessly.
In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some incorrect techniques for those dances.
In 'Loose Ankles,' a man disguises himself as a woman, leading to scandalous behavior, a romantic rival, and a damaged reputation. The film is a hilarious madcap comedy set during the prohibition era.
The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.