Movies like The Turning Point

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The Turning Point (1977)
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The Turning Point (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, tense, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, tension, fairy tale ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: ballet, dancing, ballerina, regret, choreography, dance, midlife crisis, bittersweet, jealousy, mother daughter relationship, rivalry, friendship, female bonding, teacher, mother, education, parents, drunkenness, ambition, trippy, self-help, haunted by the past, career change, motherhood, dancer ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place: new york, usa, oklahoma, california

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Most similar movies to The Turning Point

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about dancing, artists and showbiz, love and romance, dance, couples, dancer's life and dancer mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like The Turning Point: White Nights (1985), Center Stage (2000), Center Stage: On Pointe (2016), The Company (2003), One Last Dance (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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White Nights (1985)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to become a dancer for the Bolshoi again, but he wishes to ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, retro, colorful, serious ...
Plot: ballet, cold war, dance, dancing, defector, culture clash, escape, kgb, airplane crash, vietnam war, tap dance, cold war era ...
Time: year 1985
Place: russia, soviet union, siberia
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100%
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Center Stage (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 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.
Style: teen, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: dance, dancing, ballet, love triangle, music, teenager, homosexual, gay, competition, love and romance, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s, year 2000
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Center Stage: On Pointe (2016)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In Center Stage: On Pointe, Jonathan Reeves (Gallagher) is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy, and enlists his his top choreographers Charlie (Radetsky), Cooper (Stiefel) and Tommy (Wormald) ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, psychological, funny
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, friendship, dancer, ballet, audition, ballerina, modern dance, partner, rivalry, reputation, camp, dance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Company (2003)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.
Style: stylized, lyrical, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: ballet, dancing, choreographer, dancer's life, rising to stardom, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, artists and showbiz, art, female nudity ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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One Last Dance (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the wake of tragedy, a renowed New York dance company is on the brink of collapse. After leaving the dance world for good, Travis, Chrissa, and Max are pulled in to resurrect the dance that shattered their careers. They have one last chance to ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexy, romantic, independent film
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dance school, lifestyle, follow your dream, performer's life, dancer's life, love and romance, showbiz, teenage love, redemption, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 3.9
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B-Girl (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young female breakdancer, Angel, moves to Los Angeles after an attack by an ex-boyfriend nearly ends her dance career forever. B-Girl follows Angel through recovery and acceptance of a new life as she busts a move into the male-centric world of ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: dancing, hip hop, family relations, ambition, follow your dream, dancer's life, teenage life, dance, lifestyle, youth, contests and competitions, human spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.0
 537
Roseland (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: "Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loneliness, friendship, looking for love, elderly, couples, party, music, dance, disco, love and romance, contests and competitions, dancer's life ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Center Stage: Turn It Up (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: All self-taught dancer Kate Parker has ever wanted to do was perform with the American Academy of Ballet. But when she doesnt make it after auditioning, she learns that it takes more than precision and perfection to succeed in the dance world.
Style: light, sex comedy, teen, funny, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dancer's life, ballet, street dance, dance, follow your dream, performer's life, youth, ambition, hopes, rivalry, lifestyle ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 7.0
 254K
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer – and unexpectedly falling in love.
Style: feel good, sexy, sentimental, touching, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: love story, dancing, coming of age, couples, forbidden love, summer, summer romance, youth, love and romance, fall in love, dance, unlikely couple ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1963, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Dance of the Dragon (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The story of three people whose lives are pulled into review and assessment when their paths cross. The initial sparks of what could be a new romance plays off against a couple falling out of love, a student and teacher, a father and son, a ...
Style: atmospheric, touching, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, ambition, couples, fall in love, dance school, follow your dream, family relations, medieval, parents and children, dishonesty, love triangle, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, touching, sentimental
Plot: ballet, ballerina, misfit, unlikely couple, society, hopes, dancer's life, opposites attract, doctors and patients, fall in love, artists and showbiz, orphan ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Jazz Singer (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music.
Style: touching, intense, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: father son relationship, music, tradition, family relations, showbiz, parents and children, follow your dream, desire for fame, religions or cults, musician's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: california, new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Staying Alive (1983)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, stylized, freeze frame ...
Plot: dance, dancing, disco, nightclub, music, love, dysfunctional family, musician, new year, cannon, dj, music and dance ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Two for the Seesaw (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Jerry Ryan wanders aimlessly around New York after giving up his Nebrascan law practice. His wife asks for a divorce. He meets Gittel, a struggling dancer from Greenwich Village and they try to sort out their lives. An extended conversation piece ...
Style: black and white, independent film, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, crazy love, midlife crisis, unlikely couple, love and romance, hopes, young lovers, society, crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, opposites attract, unfulfillment ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, nebraska, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Competition (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: piano, love, music, fall in love, love affair, in love, musician, family relations, female nudity, bare breasts, sex, male nudity ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Listen to Your Heart (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude he gained from his mother's unwavering optimism ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: mute or deaf, family relations, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, musician's life, couples, misfit, unfulfillment, parents and children, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Footloose (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock.
Style: teen, cult classic, serious, captivating, colorful ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: dancing, high school, youth, small town, dance, music, love and romance, rebellion, rebelliousness, dancer's life, teenage rebellion, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1984, 20th century, 70s
Place: utah, pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Dance with Me (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World ...
Style: romantic, light, entertaining, exciting, feel good ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, music, dancer's life, ballroom dancing, dance, follow your dream, mentor, hopes, ambition, social differences, teachers and students, contests and competitions ...
Time: year 1998
Place: las vegas, austin texas, cuba, usa, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the schools hottest dancer, Chase, to form a crew of ...
Style: romantic, teen, inspirational, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: dancing, dance, dancer, youth, ballet, dancer's life, hip hop, music, dance contest, street dance, contests and competitions, competition ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: maryland, usa, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Save the Last Dance 2 (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sara joins Julliard in New York to fulfill her and her mother's dream of becoming the Prima ballerina of the school. She befriends her roommates, Zoe and Miles, who teach hip-hop classes. She has ballet classes with the rigid and famous Monique ...
Style: feel good, serious, realistic, teen
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: street dance, music, interracial relations, dance, dancing, cinderella story, love and romance, follow your dream, hopes, hip hop, teachers and students, hardcase students ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa, new york, chicago
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22%
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Five Dances (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: FIVE DANCES, written and directed by Alan Brown, is a creatively adventurous narrative feature film set in the New York 'downtown' modern dance world. The story follows the rocky emotional journey of an 18-year old dancer (the amazing ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay couple, gay teenager, gay sex, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, dancing, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, mother son relationship, dancer's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.5
 759
Clara and Me (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Antoine has what every young single man could wish: a promising career, true and loyal friends, and an apartment of his own. However, he's a lonely man, until he meets Clara, a beautiful and exciting woman, and deeply falls in love with her. ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot: couples, introspection, self discovery, fall in love, love affair, parents and children, midlife crisis, lovers reunited, orgasm, family relations, thirtysomething life, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.3
 10K
High Strung (2016)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common ground while preparing for a ...
Style: romantic, light, sweet, entertaining, happy
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: dancing, ballet, dancer's life, dance, violin, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, unlikely couple, competition, music, breaking point, musician ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Birds of Paradise (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two dancers at an elite ballet academy in Paris must compete for a contract to join the highly coveted Opéra National de Paris as they confront their competitive nature, sexual awakenings and how far they would go to win.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, teen, touching
Plot: ballet, ballerina, dancing, dancehall girl, dancer's life, rivalry, ambition, ambitious woman, female protagonist, dancer, showdown, direction and purpose ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.2
 60K
Step Up 3D (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.
Style: romantic, teen, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: dancing, dance, dancer's life, happy ending, street dance, hip hop, contests and competitions, teenager, young lovers, dance club, high school, love and romance ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, light, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, marriage, women, friendship, grandmother, advice, adultery, stereotypes, interracial romance, marriage proposal, family life, self discovery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, northern california, north carolina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Dance Academy (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: At Sydney's National Dance Academy, a few talented youngsters are recruited for the excruciatingly tough course. It follows Tara Webster, a sheepfarmgirl who's ambition is to be the next best ballerina. Jewish long line of doctors' ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: ballet, dancer's life, friendship, dancing, dance, teacher, ambitious, dance school, teenage life, hopes, dancer, ballerina ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They begin to spend time ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, sincere, light, captivating ...
Plot: aging, senior citizen, friendship, sea captain, buddies, hopes, summer, barber, alcoholic, old age, retirement, wrestling ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.8
 10K
Song One (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Estranged from her family, Franny returns home when an accident leaves her brother comatose. Retracing his life as an aspiring musician, she tracks down his favorite musician, James Forester. Against the backdrop of Brooklyn’s music scene, Franny ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, serious, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: wooing, love and romance, couple relations, coping, homecoming, fall in love, self discovery, estrangement, music, hospital, art, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.8
 341
Musical Chairs (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When his dancer partner, Mia, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: disability, follow your dream, lifestyle, human spirit, couples, against the odds, dance school, contests and competitions, hopes, ambition, society, dancing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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