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Footloose
Footloose, released in 1984, follows a teenager who moves to a small town where dancing has been banned by local ordinance, and his efforts to overturn the ban and organize a school dance became one of the defining teen films of the 1980s addressing generational and cultural conflict. The film's title song and soundtrack, including multiple chart-topping singles, became one of the best-selling movie soundtracks of the decade, and Kevin Bacon's performance in the lead role established him as one of the era's most recognizable young film stars. Its central premise, based loosely on a real Oklahoma town's actual dancing prohibition, gave the film's seemingly exaggerated small-town conservative conflict a grounding in genuine, if unusual, American small-town history. Footloose's combination of energetic dance sequences and its underlying exploration of generational and religious conflict over youth culture and self-expression made it one of the most commercially successful and culturally significant dance films of the 1980s, and its central rebellious premise has remained widely referenced in popular culture.
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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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