The Best 70s Dance Movies

Updated September 21, 2019 286 votes 84 voters 8.7k views17 items

List RulesVote up your favorite dance films that were released in the 1970s.

When it came to the ‘70s, it was all about Fosse, disco and roller-skating. You’ll find all that and more on this list of the best ‘70s dance movies, and we want you to rank your favorites. If you've got a pair of platform shoes in your closet that are gathering dust, brush them off and upvote your top dance movies from the 1970s.

Bob Fosse is one of the best and most influential choreographers of the 20th century, and you’ll find two of his most important films on this list of the best ‘70s dance films: Cabaret (for which he won best director) and the autobiographical, All That Jazz. Then we have two disco classics, Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It’s Friday. And, as for roller-skating, there’s Roller Boogie and Skatetown U.S.A. Also don’t miss the ballet drama, The Turning Point, featuring star turns from Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft.

So, which of the movies on this list of good ‘70s dance films put a bounce in your step? Vote up the top ‘70s dance movies and make sure to add any we might have missed.

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Saturday Night Fever
John Travolta, Fran Drescher
Released: 1977
Directed by: John Badham
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Grease
Adrian Zmed, Maxwell Caulfield
Directed by: Patricia Birch, Randal Kleiser
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Roller Boogie
Linda Blair, Dick Van Patten
Released: 1979
Directed by: Mark L. Lester
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Hair
Beverly DAngelo, Nell Carter
Released: 1979
Directed by: Miloš Forman
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Cabaret
Liza Minnelli, Michael York
Released: 1972
Directed by: Bob Fosse
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All That Jazz
Jessica Lange, John Lithgow
Released: 1979
Directed by: Bob Fosse
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Skatetown, U.S.A.
Patrick Swayze, Maureen McCormick
Released: 1979
Directed by: William A. Levey
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Godspell
Victor Garber, Lynne Thigpen
Released: 1973
Directed by: David Greene
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Thank God It's Friday
Donna Summer, Jeff Goldblum
Released: 1978
Directed by: Robert Klane
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Julius Erving, Stockard Channing
Released: 1979
Directed by: Gilbert Moses
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At Long Last Love
Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd
Released: 1975
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
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The Turning Point
Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft
Released: 1977
Directed by: Herbert Ross
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That's Entertainment
Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli
Released: 1974
Directed by: Jack Haley, Jr.
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New York, New York
Robert De Niro, Liza Minnelli
Released: 1977
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
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Disco Godfather
Rudy Ray Moore, Hawthorne James
Released: 1980
Directed by: J. Robert Wagoner
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Naya Zamana
Hema Malini, Ashok Kumar
Released: 1971
Directed by: Pramod Chakravorty
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