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The top eight ballroom dancing movies of all time are Swing Kids: a group of friends deal with the pressures of Nazi Germany by getting together in secret to Swing dance; Dance with Me: a dance instructor falls for a Cuban dancer at her school; Shall We Dance: a remake of a Japanese film about a middle-aged accountant who reclaims his life by learning to ballroom dance; Mad Hot Ballroom: a documentary following 11 year-old New York kids as they learn and compete in ballroom dancing; Strictly Ballroom: a man finds joy in creating his own ballroom steps; Dirty Dancing: Baby and Johnny dance together and come of age one summer in the 1960’s; and Swing Time: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers light up the screen in this 1937 tale of a gambler and a dancer teacher who eventually fall in love.