1980s dance films

1987 film directed by Emile Ardolino

Flashdance is a 1983 American romantic drama dance film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Jennifer Beals as a passionate young dancer, Alex Owens, who aspires to become a professional ballerina, alongside Michael Nouri, who plays her boyfriend and the owner of the steel mill where she works by day in Pittsburgh.

Footloose is a 1984 American musical drama film directed by Herbert Ross and written by Dean Pitchford. It tells the story of Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), a teenager from Chicago who moves to a small town, where he attempts to overturn a ban on dancing enforced by the efforts of a local minister (John Lithgow).

1982 Indian Hindi film directed by Babbar Subhash

1980 film by Alan Parker

1983 film directed by Sylvester Stallone

1986 film by Federico Fellini

1988 film by John Waters

1982 US musical film directed by Patricia Birch

'''''Breakin' (also known as Breakdance in the United Kingdom and Break Street '84''''' in other regions) is a 1984 American breakdancing-themed musical film directed by Joel Silberg and written by Charles Parker and Allen DeBevoise based on a story by Parker, DeBevoise and Gerald Scaife about dancer Alysha Williams.

1983 film by Carlos Saura

1985 film by Alan Metter

1981 Spanish musical film directed by Carlos Saura

1986 Spanish musical film directed by Carlos Saura

1988 film by Boaz Davidson

1984 film directed by Sam Firstenberg

1983 Telugu film directed by Kasinathuni Viswanath

1987 film by Herbert Ross

1987 film by Babbar Subhash

1984 film directed by Marcelo Epstein

1986 Tamil film directed by K. Balachander

1983 film by Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry

1987 film by David A. Prior

1984 film directed by Lucio Fulci

1984 film by James Fargo, Bob Giraldi