Dancer Scheherazade was told by the stars that she will become wife of the caliph in Bagdad. She tells Kamar, brother of caliph Haroun. He planned a coup d'etat, which failed at first, but supported by the wazir he finally succeeds. Haroun is injured and gets help from Ahmad's actor troupe, where he is nursed by Scheherazade, who doesn't recognize him. When she hears that Kamar is looking for her she goes to him, but is sold with the complete troupe of actors to slavery. They're able to escape, but Haroun is still in danger. To save him, Scheherazade agrees to poison Kamar, but Haroun tries to establish his rulership first.
Middle-aged, sexually repressed Sylvia Stickles is the subject of this John Water's film, set in North Baltimore. She refuses to have sex with her husband, Vaughn Stickles, and keeps her overly-endowed daughter, Caprice, locked in her room, while she serves home detention for moral depravity charges. Sylvia, together with her mother Big Ethel, lead a group calling themselves "neuters" that promotes decency on Harford Road. When Sylvia is accidentally hit on the head by a lawnmower hanging out of a passing pick-up truck, however, her sexual behavior is changed completely from prude to prostitute. She meets the sex addicted sexual healer Ray Ray Perkins, becoming his twelfth apostle of sex in a journey of pleasure and orgasm.
Exotic dancers Viper and Cobra reunite to perform a surprise birthday gram for Alex, a closet lesbian so grossed out by their burlesque performance that she has a nightmare of her girlfriends being stalked and killed by Viper's supernatural Thong. As the only survivor, she must confront her fears, find a way to defeat Viper's Thong and admit her attraction to women. In the aftermath, Alex wakes and finds her coffee table covered with Polaroids. As she looks through the outrageous party photos, she realizes it's time for her to come out of the closet.
When Venezuelan-born flamenco prodigy Siudy Garrido and her dance troupe want to bring their production "Entre Mundos" to a famed midtown New York stage and sustain a successful multi-month run.
The story of a professional ballet dancer, who returns to perform on stage after 20 years.
A week before her wedding, beautiful dance studio instructor Amber Clarke suddenly finds herself the obsession of Hunter, the brooding, sexy, exotic male dancer from her bachelorette party, who is harboring a very dark vendetta and will stop at nothing to keep Amber from tying the knot.
Dividing their expansive, rundown factory loft in half with a single strip of tape, a grizzled sculptor and his wife, a modern dancer establish work spaces in order to further their respective crafts while grappling with the pressures of sharing space against the realities of a volatile relationship. As the balance between mutual support and competition slips away, resentments mount and once-suppressed tensions erupt into anger and acts of raw sexuality. The couple is soon pushed to their breaking point in a dance between two wounded souls.
This is a musical-comedy movie produced and directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Liza Minnelli, written by Richard Harris, and based on a play also written by Harris. Minnelli plays the role of a has-been Broadway performer who gives tap lesson to a group of misfits who, through their dance classes, bond and realize what they can achieve.
Big-name musical performers experience everyday problems and disappointments during their offstage hours.
Paul and Millie Cao lost their youth to the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Forty years later, they have become successful professionals in Southern California-and are rediscovering themselves on the dance floor.
Inside the fascinating but little-known world of same-sex competitive ballroom dance, HOT TO TROT follows a small international cast of four magnetic men and women, on and off the dance floor, over a four-year period. An immersive character study - and an idiosyncratic attack on bigotry - this rousing, powerful story unfurls with the rhythms and energy of dramatic cinema.
An American Music Star goes on the cross-cultural journey to China, reconnecting with her roots, discovering the intriguing life story of her great-great-grandma who once immigrated to the U.S.
Atanásio Nhussi, a compelling storyteller and legendary Mapiko dancer, takes us on a visually dramatic journey through Mozambique's past and present.
Lucie, a young dancer suffers an accident. When she wakes up from a coma, she and her partner start training for a dance show. On the way, she starts looking for her estranged father, a path that might lead her to life-changing love.
Somebody is a reality show that will observe the romance between dancers. The show will focus on the journey of male and female dancers filming a couple music video with the person that they're attracted to. It is a unique dance program that doesn't focus on survival or competition.