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Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing, released in 1987, follows a teenage girl on a family vacation who falls for a working-class dance instructor at a 1960s Catskills resort, and the film's climactic final dance lift, in which Patrick Swayze's character famously lifts Jennifer Grey's character overhead, became one of the most iconic images in dance film history. Made on a relatively modest budget, the film became a massive sleeper commercial hit, and its soundtrack, including "(I've Had) The Time of My Life," topped the Billboard charts and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The film's line "Nobody puts Baby in a corner," delivered by Swayze's character, became one of the most widely quoted and referenced lines in popular romantic film history, and the phrase has entered common usage as broader shorthand for refusing to be marginalized or dismissed. Dirty Dancing's combination of genuine dance sequences performed largely by its lead actors and its underlying social commentary on class differences within its 1960s setting has made it one of the most enduringly beloved dance films ever produced, sustaining its popularity across multiple subsequent generations.
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Flashdance
Flashdance, released in 1983, follows a young woman working as a welder by day and an exotic dancer by night while pursuing her dream of formal ballet training, and the film's music-video-influenced visual style reflected the broader early-1980s aesthetic influence of MTV on mainstream film production. Its soundtrack, including the number-one hit "Flashdance... What a Feeling," became one of the best-selling film soundtracks of the decade, and the film's combination of dance sequences with pop music helped establish a commercial template that numerous subsequent dance films continued to follow. The film's famous audition sequence, in which the protagonist performs an athletic, emotionally cathartic solo dance routine, including her signature water-drenched chair movement, became one of the most widely referenced and imitated individual sequences in 1980s film. Flashdance's massive commercial success, despite mixed critical reviews upon release, helped establish the dance film as a commercially reliable genre throughout the 1980s and directly influenced the visual and musical approach of numerous subsequent films in the category.
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