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Kanopy
88
8.1
/42560/
80
/943/
80
/713/
4.4
/139190/
98
/65/
91
/825/
cc age 10+

The Red Shoes (1948)
Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
poster
Kanopy
83
8.0
/23602/
78
/430/
79
/566/
4.1
/21722/
88
/40/
90
/336/
84
/15/

Limelight (1952)
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
poster
Hulu
81
8.0
/875781/
77
/21885/
77
/15158/
4.2
/2595802/
85
/320/
84
/19892/
79
/42/
cc age 17+

Black Swan (2010)
The story of a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life is completely consumed with dance. Nina lives with her retired ballerina mother who zealously supports her daughter's professional ambition. When the artistic director decides to replace the prima ballerina for the opening production of their new season, Nina is his first choice.
poster
79
7.7
/150109/
77
/4245/
76
/3980/
4.1
/308833/
85
/119/
89
/5379/
74
/34/
cc age 13+

Billy Elliot (2000)
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
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Kanopy
76
7.8
/3291/
76
/125/
72
/70/
3.7
/2267/
88
/33/
86
/13/
65
/7/

Dancer (2016)
Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.
poster
Kanopy
75
6.8
/334/
72
/27/
60
/6/
3.5
/1154/
90
/80/
88
/8/
77
/18/

Ailey (2021)
Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. Told in his own words and through the creation of a dance inspired by his life, this immersive portrait follows a man who, when confronted by a world that refused to embrace him, determined to build one that would.
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Hoopla
74
7.4
/17376/
74
/260/
69
/178/
3.7
/11297/
77
/26/
85
/419/
64
/11/
cc age 13+

The Goodbye Girl (1977)
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
72
7.5
/7141/
74
/135/
74
/165/
3.8
/13914/
100
/11/
81
/46/

Summer Interlude (1951)
During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.
poster
77
71
7.4
/8274/
74
/167/
72
/118/
3.6
/6536/
89
/9/
84
/228/

Shall We Dance (1937)
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
poster
70
6.9
/21817/
70
/512/
66
/712/
3.4
/17566/
72
/47/
78
/778/
67
/24/

Russian Dolls (2005)
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
poster
Netflix
68
7.2
/17811/
69
/702/
72
/748/
3.3
/36616/
84
/63/
75
/31/
73
/15/
cc age 17+

Girl (2018)
A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.
poster
65
6.6
/7323/
67
/317/
66
/249/
3.2
/7116/
68
/135/
80
/101/
61
/29/
cc age 17+

The White Crow (2018)
The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.
poster
65
6.7
/23730/
71
/605/
68
/351/
3.5
/19313/
42
/79/
82
/4444/
52
/33/
cc age 14+

Center Stage (2000)
A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
6.2
/7101/
58
/88/
52
/115/
3.3
/4121/
72
/130/
49
/355/
73
/32/
cc age 13+

The Company (2003)
Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.
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Kanopy
63
6.3
/3613/
61
/122/
64
/107/
3.2
/6754/
75
/16/
66
/11/
63
/8/

The Summer of Sangaile (2015)
Sangaile, a 17-year-old spending the summer at her parents’ lakeside villa, becomes drawn to a free-spirited girl she meets at a nearby aeronautical show. As they grow closer, she begins to confront her fears and embrace a connection that encourages her to pursue her passion for flight.
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Amazon Prime Video
64
63
5.8
/11879/
67
/398/
64
/418/
2.9
/3877/
78
/27/
59
/626/
cc age 13+

StreetDance 3D (2010)
In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.
poster
MGM Plus
61
6.2
/68426/
67
/1957/
65
/1325/
3.0
/55213/
54
/98/
59
/991681/
53
/24/
cc age 14+

Save the Last Dance (2001)
After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her brother Derek, who helps her with her dancing skills.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
61
7.3
/8503/
72
/183/
65
/118/
3.5
/3531/
55
/75/
76
/515/
55
/23/

Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
poster
Hulu
73
55
7.1
/10769/
67
/155/
68
/82/
3.4
/7812/
93
/13/

The American (2023)
American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of becoming a great ballerina.
poster
63
54
6.2
/3826/
64
/160/
60
/187/
3.4
/3861/

The One Man Band (1970)
Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans’ nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group, with a baby and a note claiming he is the father…
poster
73
49
7.2
/2014/
75
/159/
73
/374/
3.7
/18187/
71
/7/
76
/1/

Little Tickles (2018)
Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
poster
72
43
7.0
/1119/
68
/26/
70
/29/
3.7
/1423/
77
/78/

Annaluise & Anton (1999)
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.
poster
68
42
7.0
/1157/
62
/25/
63
/40/
3.8
/1971/
72
/26/

The Dying Swan (1917)
After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death genuinely.
poster
Netflix
60
38
5.6
/1124/
62
/91/
61
/74/
2.9
/3024/
67
/6/
59
/4/
cc age 15+

Dancing on Glass (2022)
When immense pressure threatens a ballerina in a new lead role, she and another dancer escape into a friendship that isolates them from the real world.
poster
JustWatchTV
74
35
7.2
/443/
74
/34/
78
/23/
3.7
/7261/

Pacarrete (2019)
Russas, a small town in northeastern Brazil, is the home of Pacarrete, a grumpy retired dance teacher who dreams of getting a big shot and starring at a dance spectacle for the whole town to see. She's close to fulfilling that dream, but not without overcoming a few impediments along the way.
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Hoopla
61
34
6.6
/1923/
74
/208/
62
/63/
2.9
/696/
48
/1/

A Nutcracker Christmas (2016)
When her niece is cast in The Philadelphia Ballet’s production of the Nutcracker, a jaded ex-ballerina is forced to come to terms with the life and love she left behind.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
33
6.8
/1141/
68
/61/
62
/53/
3.2
/974/

The Bolshoi (2016)
Young and extremely talented dancer Yulya Olshanskaya from a small mining town draws a “happy ticket”: she is noticed by a former ballet dancer Pototsky and he promises her a future of great ballerina, worthy of the main stage of the country. However, in order to become a diamond, anyone, even the most outstanding brilliant, needs to be cut, and the way to the legendary stage of The Bolshoi Theatre for Yulya lies through the walls of the ballet school, where the more capricious teacher Galina Mikhailovna Beletskaya takes custody of the rebellious provincial. Turning into a prima will require incredible self-denial, and Yulya herself will have to make sure that the big ballet is not only the whiteness of the packs, the gold of the boxes and the slip of silk ribbons. But no obstacles will stop the one who has the big dream.
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Netflix
75
32
7.5
/1612/
70
/46/
76
/23/
3.4
/1159/
88
/8/

Yeh Ballet (2020)
Discovered by an eccentric ballet master, two gifted but underprivileged Mumbai teens face bigotry and disapproval as they pursue their dancing dreams.
poster
Starz Apple TV Channel
31
3.6
/82143/
46
/4296/
48
/2917/
1.7
/94481/
4
/50/
38
/2136/
11
/16/
cc age 16+

Scary Movie 5 (2013)
Home with their newly-formed family, happy parents Dan and Jody are haunted by sinister, paranormal activities. Determined to expel the insidious force, they install security cameras and discover their family is being stalked by an evil dead demon.
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Kanopy
50
30
4.6
/1374/
50
/59/
49
/39/
2.8
/1524/

Grand Jete (2022)
Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness that knows fewer and fewer boundaries. An uncompromising film about family relationships.
poster
The Roku Channel
57
29
5.7
/1446/
69
/152/
64
/81/
2.8
/586/
40
/7/
cc age 14+

Center Stage: On Pointe (2016)
Jonathan Reeves is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy, and enlists his top choreographers Charlie, Cooper and Tommy to recruit dancers to compete at a camp where the winners will be selected to join the Academy. Bella Parker, who has always lived in the shadow of her hugely successful sister Kate, finally gets her chance to step into the limelight as one of the dancers recruited for the camp.
poster
57
23
5.5
/282/
58
/34/
58
/24/
2.9
/1418/

Neneh Superstar (2023)
Born to dance, Neneh is a 12-year-old black girl who dreams of entering the Paris Opera Ballet School. Despite her enthusiasm, she will have to redouble her efforts to escape from her condition and be accepted by the director of the school, Marianne Bellage, the guarantor of traditions and the bearer of a secret that links her to the little ballerina.
poster
Kanopy
76
21
7.3
/435/
79
/20/
81
/8/
3.6
/287/
79
/26/
cc age 9+

Ballerina (2006)
Ballerina is a 2006 documentary film that follows the training sessions, rehearsals, and everyday lives of five Russian ballerinas at different stages in their career.
poster
64
19
6.1
/230/
62
/8/
67
/8/
68
/29/

Dance, Subaru! (2009)
Subaru and her twin brother Kazuma share a dream in becoming ballet dancers, but their passion is discouraged by their father. After Kazuma's death from a hereditary illness, dancing became Subaru's only happiness and she yearns to lose herself in dance. Her life takes a dramatic turn when she runs into cabaret owner Isuzu, who recognizes the talent in Subaru and trains her in her nightspot. But to become a professional ballerina, Subaru has to overcome harsher challenges than merely satisfying the cabaret drunkards. Spurred on by her rivaling dance companions, Subaru enters an international dance competition, to vie for recognition and a scholarship to any top ballet company in the world. Subaru and her companions soon discover that there are more to compete than the championship, and tests of friendship, betrayal and self-worth come one after another. Gradually the youngsters learn about themselves as dancers, as persons and as friends.
poster
63
15
6.4
/554/
58
/19/
66
/16/
3.5
/467/

The Snow Queen (1986)
A Finnish live action adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Snow Queen. The tale centers on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Kerttu.
poster
55
11
5.3
/291/
51
/9/
55
/14/
3.1
/388/

The Ballet Master's Dream (1903)
It's late in the evening, and the ballet master's bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and instead of going to sleep he paces the floor and tries out dance steps. Finally, he goes to bed and falls asleep, but ballet dominates even his dreams. He sees two dancers who seem to come right into his room as they perform, and that's just the beginning.
poster
47
9
4.5
/453/
43
/10/
44
/12/
2.9
/458/

Amy Muller (1896)
Vaudeville dancer Amy Muller performs a portion of her stage routine, which features dancing on her toes. She dances on one toe for part of the performance. Later, she also twirls and does cartwheels.
poster
85
?
9.2
/458/
100
/1/
3.2
/214/

The Red Shoes: 75th Anniversary (2023)
Shannon Davidson and Ashley Shaw at the iconic Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, delving into their thoughts and feelings about the timeless classic "The Red Shoes" to celebrate its 75th anniversary.
poster
?
8.3
/25/
80
/2/
70
/1/

Front Row (2024)
Bertolt Brecht asked whether there would be singing in the dark times. In the throes of war, the United Ukrainian Ballet Company defiantly insists there will be dancing, too. Far from the land they call home, young dancers take quiet comfort from art. For a while, their work feels like the old days, except there is a new troupe member: a soldier learning to dance with prosthetic legs.
poster
?
10
/1/

Seven Beauties (1982)
Based on the music of the famous Azerbaijani composer Kara Karayev. The ballet libretto is based on the poem “Seven Beauties” (Khamsa) by Nizami Ganjavi, created in 1197.
poster
?
5.4
/7/

Bakelite (2023)
This underwater ballet is an ecological story depicting our paradoxical relationship with plastic. Bakelite launched the #SickOfPlastic campaign from On Est Prêt, along with the Surfrider Foundation, Break Free from Plastic and the Resilient Foundation. Photography was directed by Jacques Ballard, a specialist in underwater cinematography.
poster
?
90
/1/

Tutu (2023)
N/A
poster
?
70
/1/

Rocky Road On Channel Three (2023)
A man has a life-changing encounter with an otherworldly ice cream truck.
poster
?
50
/2/

Daytripper (2023)
Two men serendipitously meet and fall in love on a beautiful summer day in Fire Island Pines. That’s the dream of many a visitor to New York’s famous out-of-the-way gay getaway.
poster
?
60
/2/

The Two (1995)
The film features the leaders of the Moscow Classic Ballet Theater, Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasilev, who aspire to transform their theater into an international ballet center. The film is based on a story about the personal life and creative plans of the famous ballet couple.
poster
?
10
/2/

Point De Départ (2023)
At a prestigious performing arts school, a teenage male ballet dancer desires to be at the top of his class while refusing to listen to his body.
poster
PBS
83
?
7.8
/112/
85
/2/
87
/3/

Call Me Dancer (2023)
Manish is a talented and athletic street dancer from Mumbai who dreams of becoming professional against the wishes of his struggling parents. He meets a curmudgeonly Israeli ballet master who gives him the determination to keep going. But when he is pitted against another boy who’s got the attention of the top school in the world, Manish realizes he must push himself to his physical limits if he has any chance to succeed.
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?
5.3
/17/

Dance for All (2007)
N/A


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