Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While some may say the narrative of Flashdance is a bit silly, the power of its soundtrack, which topped the Billboard charts in ...

'Flashdance' fans love Jennifer Beals' dance under pouring water, but director Adrian Lyne explains why that scene almost couldn't be in the movie. On a new Paramount Presents Blu-ray of Flashdance, ...

Jennifer Beals went from wide-eyed acting newcomer to movie star and 1980s fashion icon in "Flashdance" 40 years ago. Audiences were swept up in Beals' performance as Pittsburgh steel mill welder Alex ...

“Flashdance” was one of those lightning-in-a-bottle movies that somehow perfectly captured its moment. Directed by Adrian Lyne, the movie’s atmospheric, neon-saturated style, brisk pacing, infectious ...

In the gleam of sweat on bare shoulders, in the sudden snap of a strobe-lit pirouette, in the promise of escape built from steel and longing — there lies Adrian Lyne. To talk about Lyne is to talk ...

In 1983 actress Jennifer Beals danced her way into the hearts of millions of moviegoers in ‘Flashdance,’ playing a Pittsburgh woman who worked at a steel mill by day but dreamed of becoming a ...

Flashdance legend Jennifer Beals is 62 and more beautiful than ever. The actress, who rose to superstardom as an aspiring dancer who spends her days working in a steel mill in the iconic ’80s movie ...

Makuochi Echebiri is a News Writer for Collider. He has been interested in creative writing from as far back as high school, and he would consume pretty much anything that’s film or TV. However, his ...

MTV first went on the air in August of 1981. A year later, the channel had already started to make a huge impact on the pop charts. A year after that, the MTV influence had spread to cinema. That's ...

Launcher of a thousand off-the-shoulder sweatshirts, popularizer of leg warmers: it’s “Flashdance” and the film turns 40 this year, just like some of us are or have too. It’s hard to believe a beloved ...

NEW YORK -- Oscar, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy-winning singer-actress Irene Cara, who starred and sang the title cut in the 1980 hit movie "Fame" and then belted out the era-defining hit ...

Co-writer and singer of the iconic “Flashdance…What a Feeling” from the 1983 hit romantic dance drama Flashdance, Irene Cara, has died. She was 63. Cara was found dead in her home in Miami, Florida on ...