5 Netflix Dance Movies That Are Must-Watches

There’s something about good music that entices the dancer in all of us. Whether you grew up dancing or just enjoy it socially, here are 5 Netflix Original Movies that will make you want to start moving.

Work It (2020)

Sabrina Carpenter stars as Quinn, an over-achiever who longs to get into her dream school, Duke University. She’s done everything right, a set list of qualities she assumes will get her where she wants to go. However, when admissions officer Veronica (Michelle Buteau) tells her she is just like every other candidate, and she fails to get into her school’s award-winning dance troupe,  she goes on a journey to make herself stand out from the other applicants by starting her own dance troupe with her best friend Jasmine (Liza Koshy) and choreographer Jake (Jordan Fisher). Sabrina Carpenter does a great job at convincing the audience she can’t dance, as Quinn struggles to let herself relax and feel the music, but in the end, her newfound love for dance is what pushes her to pursue new goals. 

Step Sisters (2018)

College overachiever Jamilah (Megalyn Echikunwoke), who’s president of her sorority and leader of their step team, is tasked with whipping a group of rhythmically challenged white sorority girls into shape after they embarrass the school with their partying. She only agrees because her mother (Sheryl Lee Ralph) refuses to give her an alumni recommendation due to her GPA not being a 4.0, and the dean offers to give her one in exchange for her services. Her reluctance is shown through her lack of patience for these sorority girls, but throughout all the humorous irritability, the group learns to get along and work together.

Feel The Beat (2020)

April (Sofia Carson) is an aspiring Broadway dancer whose career goes to shambles after she steals a cab from an old lady, who happens to be a rich theater investor, and later pushes the same lady off the stage at an audition. With an eviction notice at her door, April slumps back to her hometown defeated and gets roped into being a guest dance teacher at her previous studio to help prepare the next generation of dancers for competition season. At first, she’s reluctant, believing these girls are beneath her and her skill, but after learning she can reinvent her career by performing with them her attitude quickly changes. Throughout the movie, despite her tough exterior, April learns humility as she grows to care for not only the girls in the studio but the whole town. Including her ex-boyfriend Nick (Wolfgang Novogratz) who she left behind for New York. Like many dance movies, April learns to get out of her head and just feel the beat.

Ivy + Bean: Doomed to Dance (2021)

Based on the popular book series by Annie Barrows, Ivy + Bean is a dance dramedy that follows two grade-school-aged girls as they attempt to learn ballet. They think it will let their imaginations run wild, but their dance teacher (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) is incredibly strict, and Bean’s parents won’t let her quit. The girls succumb to their fates until they are cast as squids in a dance festival. This kid-centric movie is imaginative and creative as Ivy and Bean work to not be laughingstocks at their school.

Time to Dance (2020)

Time to Dance is a Bollywood film that follows ballroom dancer Isha (Isabelle Kaif) who’s dumped by her dance partner after breaking her leg. Coat check guy Rishabh (Sooraj Pancholi) comes to her rescue and the two train to compete against ballroom dancing greats. Things get steamy as their relationship crosses the threshold of just dance partners to something more. Like many great Bollywood films, the movie has many grand musical numbers that hook audiences in.

Make sure to check out all of these movies and more on Netflix!