Movies dramas about dancers

List of the best films dramas about dancers according to the audience: Step Up Revolution, Black Swan, Little Women, The Greatest Showman, Dirty Dancing, The Sisters Brothers, The French Dispatch, Hostiles, The King of Staten Island, Instant Family.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

    Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

      A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama, musical, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:25

      The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer – and unexpectedly falling in love.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, western, crime
      CountryFrance, Spain, Romania, Belgium, USA
      Duration01:56

      Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Germany

      The quirky staff of an American magazine based in 1970s France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:32

      A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genredrama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

        Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

          A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:25

          A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:23

          Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genreaction, drama, family, sport
          CountryUSA, China
          Duration02:20

          12-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make him an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:22

            A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.

            Markimdb: 8.1
            Genredrama, crime, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:33

              In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by editor Walter "Robby" Robinson, reporters Michael Rezendes, Matt Carroll and Sacha Pfeiffer interview victims and try to unseal sensitive documents. The reporters make it their mission to provide proof of a cover-up of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genremelodrama, drama
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom
              Duration01:43

              A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.

              Markimdb: 7.7
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:30

              When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genremelodrama, drama
              CountryUnited Kingdom, New Zealand, USA, India, Australia
              Duration02:40

              A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

              Markimdb: 8
              Genredrama, biography, history
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
              Duration01:58

              The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

              Markimdb: 7.6
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family, sport
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:44

              A family dog—with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind—evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genremelodrama, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:58

              A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

              Markimdb: 8
              Genredrama
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:26

              Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genrecomedy, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:34

              Jasmine French used to be on the top of the heap as a New York socialite, but now is returning to her estranged sister in San Francisco utterly ruined. As Jasmine struggles with her haunting memories of a privileged past bearing dark realities she ignored, she tries to recover in her present. Unfortunately, it all proves a losing battle as Jasmine's narcissistic hangups and their consequences begin to overwhelm her. In doing so, her old pretensions and new deceits begin to foul up everyone's lives, especially her own.

              Markimdb: 8
              Genredrama, biography
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:58

                Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

                Markimdb: 6.7
                Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:31

                Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

                Markimdb: 8.1
                Genredrama, sport
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:20

                The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother, an ex-marine with a tragic past.

                Markimdb: 6.7
                Genredrama, adventure, family
                CountryUSA, Canada

                Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

                Markimdb: 7.1
                Genredrama, biography, history
                CountryGermany, France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, USA
                Duration01:05

                A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

                Markimdb: 7.2
                Genremelodrama, drama
                CountryAustralia, USA
                Duration02:23

                An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genredrama, adventure, family
                CountryFrance, Germany, South Africa, Luxembourg, Monaco, USA
                Duration01:38

                A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

                Markimdb: 7.7
                Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:00

                  After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.

                  Markimdb: 7.6
                  Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:40

                  Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

                  Markimdb: 8.2
                  Genredrama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:57

                  The series centers on 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her right-hand Baz, who runs the business and calls the shots, the clan also consists of Pope, the oldest and most dangerous of the Cody boys; Craig, the tough and fearless middle son; and Deran, the troubled, suspicious "baby" of the family.

                  Markimdb: 6.5
                  Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:45

                    An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

                    Markimdb: 6.5
                    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:42

                    A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.

                    Markimdb: 7.4
                    Genredrama, detective, biography
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                    Duration00:40

                    After the sudden death of ex-Secret Intelligence Service man Alexander, his wife Alison investigates when mysteries from her husband's past come knocking.

                    Markimdb: 8
                    Genredrama, biography
                    CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, USA, India
                    Duration01:43

                    A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

                    Markimdb: 7.4
                    Genrecomedy, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:34

                    A California high school student plans to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.

                    Markimdb: 7.6
                    Genredrama
                    CountrySpain, Thailand, USA
                    Duration01:49

                      In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

                      Markimdb: 7
                      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
                      CountryUSA, Canada
                      Duration01:46

                        The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

                        Markimdb: 7.5
                        Genredrama, military
                        CountryUSA, Germany
                        Duration02:11

                        While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

                        Markimdb: 7.4
                        Genrecomedy, drama
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:25

                        Stevie is a sweet 13-year-old about to explode. His mom is loving and attentive, but a little too forthcoming about her romantic life. His big brother is a taciturn and violent bully. So Stevie searches his working-class Los Angeles suburb for somewhere to belong. He finds it at the Motor Avenue skate shop.

                        Markimdb: 8.1
                        Genredrama, biography, history
                        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                        Duration02:13

                        In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

                        Markimdb: 7.1
                        Genredrama, biography
                        CountryUSA, China, Canada
                        Duration01:55

                        Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

                        Markimdb: 7.7
                        Genredrama, biography
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:56

                          On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

                          Markimdb: 7.6
                          Genrecomedy, drama
                          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, China
                          Duration02:26

                          A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

                          Markimdb: 7.7
                          Genrecomedy, drama
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:59

                          A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.




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