Invitation to the Dance

May 22, 1956

1h 33m

★ 5.9

Overview

Three completely different stories are told through dance.

Genres

Music

Fantasy

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Invitation to the Dance Trailers

Cast

Host / Pierrot / The Marine / Sinbad

Gene Kelly

The Lover / The Artist

Igor Youskevitch

The Loved

Claire Sombert

The Streetwalker

Tamara Toumanova

Hat Check Girl

Diana Adams

Flashy Boyfriend

Tommy Rall

The Femme Fatale

Belita

The Husband

David Paltenghi

The Wife

Daphne Dale

The Model

Claude Bessy

The Crooner in 'Ring Around the Rosy'

Irving Davies

Scheherazade

Carol Haney

At the Factory, laughter is produced, canned and shipped into the world in precisely measured, temperate doses. It lacks something, though: freedom and authenticity. One woman is unable to laugh according to the norms. She accidentally releases a reckless laughter breaking all the Factory rules. Soon realizes she is leading a revolution for freedom and joy, against pomposity.

7.3

A Hard Day's Night

Jul 7, 1964

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.

7.3

Fantasia

Nov 13, 1940

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.

0.0

Outside of Paradise

Feb 8, 1938

Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir to an estate in Ireland. He doesn't have money enough for the passage to Ireland, but the band members decide to incorporate him, advancing him the fare for equal shares in the estate. In Ireland, Danny finds that his is only a half-share, and the other half belongs to Mavourneen Kerrigan and she has the exclusive right to sell or keep the property...which, despite his pleas, she refuses to do. She also declares him an undesired guest, objects to his presence and insists that he prepare his own meals. He does so in a large main hall, but can only make hamburgers.

7.6

The Wizard of Oz

Aug 15, 1939

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

7.7

Aladdin

Nov 25, 1992

In the boorish city of Agrabah, kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin and Princess Jasmine fall in love, although she can only marry a prince. He and power-hungry Grand Vizier Jafar vie for a magic lamp that can fulfill their wishes.

7.5

Moulin Rouge!

May 18, 2001

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.

9.0

Lou Reed: Transformer & Live at Montreux 2000

Feb 8, 2014

Transformer was universally praised for its well-constructed anatomy of a touchstone album. Now expanded to interweave the original broadcast version with the bonus features on the original disc, the story appropriately begins with Reed remembering his days with the Velvet Underground and the importance of Andy Warhol in making them a New York-based phenomenon. These discussions provide more than the historical context for Transformer. Live at Montreux 2000 is a concert, released in 2005 by Eagle Vision. Reed performed eight songs from the Album Ecstasy plus a few older ones. From his days in the sixties as the main singer and songwriter of the Velvet Underground and through his mercurial solo career he has kept his audience and the critics on their toes with dramatic changes of musical direction from album to album. Underpinning everything however has been his unquestionable ability as a songwriter and performer of the highest class.

4.7

The Wave

Aug 28, 2025

A Chilean student becomes involved in a feminist movement at her university. Suddenly, she becomes a central figure in the movement.

0.0

The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood

Nov 28, 1965

Everyone knows the story of Red Riding Hood. But every story has two sides and now the wolf has finally told his. This original musical comedy special, with songs by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, first aired on November 28, 1965 on ABC.

6.7

Dig!

May 14, 2004

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. The friendship between respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor, escalated into bitter rivalry as the Dandy Warhols garnered major international success while the Brian Jonestown Massacre imploded in a haze of drugs.

6.1

Porgy and Bess

Jun 24, 1959

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

6.2

A Chorus Line

Dec 10, 1985

A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach. After the initial eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, among them Cassie, who once had a tempestuous romantic relationship with Zach. She is desperate enough for work to humble herself and audition for him; whether he's willing to let professionalism overcome his personal feelings about their past remains to be seen.

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0.0

Mamla Garbar Hai

Apr 4, 1984

This Superhit Punjabi Movie (1984) was the Debut Film of Popular Punjabi Singer & Actor Gurdas Maan and is a musical Love Story. The film has all the ingredients of a commercial movie like Romance, Comedy, Action and Melodious Music. It was the biggest grosser of Year 1984 and is still adored by Movie Lovers Worldwide, especially the fans of Gurdas Maan and Daljeet Kaur.

6.0

Hotel a la Swing

Mar 13, 1937

In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Grand Majestic Hotel.

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0.0

Marley

Invalid Date

A musical re-imagining of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, told from the perspective of Ebenezer Scrooge'a business partner Jacob Marley.

7.8

Salsa Lives

Jun 26, 2025

La Salsa Vive is a vibrant cinematic exploration of Afro-Cuban music's history, tracing its roots from New York's lively streets to Cali, Colombia, now the global salsa capital.

1.0

Sleepover LA

Mar 9, 2014

An innocent tourist travels to LA and unexpectedly conjures her sister's last night alive. Bold score, stylized dance and an eccentric cast, shot at The Standard Hotel, weave a dark and luminous film that revamps traditional narrative.

6.6

UglyDolls

May 1, 2019

In the adorably different town of Uglyville, weirdness is celebrated, strangeness is special and beauty is embraced as more than meets the eye. After traveling to the other side of a mountain, Moxy and her UglyDoll friends discover Perfection -- a town where more conventional dolls receive training before entering the real world to find the love of a child.

Cast

Host / Pierrot / The Marine / Sinbad

Gene Kelly

The Lover / The Artist

Igor Youskevitch

The Loved

Claire Sombert

The Streetwalker

Tamara Toumanova

Hat Check Girl

Diana Adams

Flashy Boyfriend

Tommy Rall

The Femme Fatale

Belita

The Husband

David Paltenghi

The Wife

Daphne Dale

The Model

Claude Bessy

The Crooner in 'Ring Around the Rosy'

Irving Davies

Scheherazade

Invitation to the Dance

Overview

Genres

Production Companies

Invitation to the Dance Trailers

Cast

Gene Kelly

Igor Youskevitch

Claire Sombert

Tamara Toumanova

Diana Adams

Tommy Rall

Belita

David Paltenghi

Daphne Dale

Claude Bessy

Irving Davies

Carol Haney

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The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood

Dig!

Porgy and Bess

A Chorus Line

Mamla Garbar Hai

Hotel a la Swing

Marley

Salsa Lives

Sleepover LA

UglyDolls

Cast

Gene Kelly

Igor Youskevitch

Claire Sombert

Tamara Toumanova

Diana Adams

Tommy Rall

Belita

David Paltenghi

Daphne Dale

Claude Bessy

Irving Davies

Carol Haney

You may also like

Palm Springs

Ha Ha Ha

A Hard Day's Night

Fantasia

Outside of Paradise

The Wizard of Oz

Aladdin

Moulin Rouge!

Lou Reed: Transformer & Live at Montreux 2000

The Wave

The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood

Dig!

Porgy and Bess

A Chorus Line

Mamla Garbar Hai

Hotel a la Swing

Marley

Salsa Lives

Sleepover LA

UglyDolls

Invitation to the Dance Trailers