1. Dirty Dancing (1987)
Low-budget, complicated to shoot, and unknowingly destined to become a classic: Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray starred in Dirty Dancing, one of the best romantic comedies of the 1980s and also one of the most memorable. dance movies. His final choreography is iconic; its title song, (I've Had) The Time of My Life still plays on the radio, and under the candid story of Baby, its protagonist, it treated complicated subjects with great irreverence, becoming a plea in favor of freedom and teenage love that, 34 years later, we still love.
2. Magic Mike XXL (2015)
A sequel to the film directed by Stephen Soderbergh and parallel to the true story of Channing Tatum, who began his career dancing in strip clubs, Magic Mike XXL has it all: a road trip, a sense of humor, a musical number to the beat of the Backstreet Boys and a unique look at male desire and sensuality. Amber Heard is the female lead, but they are the ones who get eroticized: a group of strippers with big dreams who get together to prepare their last great musical show and who look for happiness along the way.
3. Carmen (1983)
Carmen, by Carlos Saura, is one of the most impressive dance films by the Spanish director and, also, in our cinema. The third installment of the musical trilogy that he shot together with the dancer Antonio Gades and with the producer Emiliano Piedra, Carmen is yet another version of this story of love and jealousy that ends in tragedy: the novel by Prosper Mérimée inspired Bizet's opera and has been taken to the movies by Chaplin, by Cecil B. DeMille, by Lubitsch, by Otto Preminger, by Tulio Demicheli with Sarita Montiel... and by Saura, who plans the most beautiful flamenco numbers, as shown in the iconic scene at the tobacconist's. His Carmen won the BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film, was nominated for several Golden Globes, and was nominated for three Oscars.
4. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
The title Saturday Night Fever is not said, it is sung: the film that earned John Travolta his Oscar nomination was based on an article about a social phenomenon, the dance fever that accompanied his entry into the 80s. Family conflicts, loving and youthful go through the film that built, perhaps, the most unforgettable dance floor, with a magnificent soundtrack by the Bee Gees.
5. Footloose (1984)
A small town where the City Council has banned dancing, and the struggle of a group of teenagers to get it back so they can celebrate their graduation party. Lightly based on real events, Footloose is a story of the anxieties that children and parents go through and face, and of the tense relationship between authority and youth: Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, Sara Jessica Parker, John Lithgow or Dianne Wiest starred in this classic juvenile that was also etched in our memory to the sound of the chords of the Kenny Loggins song.
6. Coyote Bar (2000)
Sometimes dancing is not an end, but a means: before Magic Mike, the iconic Coyote Ugly, or El Bar Coyote, it was already building a story of aspirations and survival set in a striptease bar. Piper Perabo played the protagonist who traveled to New York determined to become a singer-songwriter with another song that has become iconic: Can't Fight the Moonlight, by LeAnn Rimes. Two-thousand aesthetics, southern costumes, bar fights, and the best choreography on the bar build the rest of the film.
