Movies like Dying to Dance
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Dying to Dance (2001)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young man must teach a woman to dance - at any cost.
Style:
inspirational, thought provoking
Plot:
anorexia, dancing, ballet, ballerina, teenager, food, dancer, weight loss, malnutrition, young woman, death, jealousy, teenage girl, parents, jealous woman, teenage daughter, love, mental illness, self harm, teen social issues, 18 year old, self destructing, eating disorder, weight, fainting
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Most similar movies to Dying to Dance
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, realistic, captivating and serious films with plots about teenager, dancing, love, mental illness, dancer, eating disorder and teenage girl mostly in Drama, Music and Family genres. Some movies like Dying to Dance: For the Love of Nancy (1994), When Friendship Kills (1996), Little Miss Perfect (2016), Sharing the Secret (2000), To the Bone (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The parents of an anorexic woman fight to save her life.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, psychological, realistic, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, anorexia, depression, drugs, psychology, self harm, college, refusing to eat, weight loss, starvation, family relations, prom ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two friends keep their vomiting a secret until one friend almost dies.
Style:
psychological, emotional
Audience:
teens
Plot:
anorexia, bulimia, disability, troubled teen, teen social issues, self harm, mental illness, depression, love, missing child, secret, fear ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An overambitious high school freshman tries to control her life by controlling her weight.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, thought provoking
Plot:
anorexia, self harm, weight loss, high school, teenager, student, family problems, peer pressure, social problems, teenage girl, fighting illness, illness ...
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77%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenage girl who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends secretly binges and purges.
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, serious, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, mental illness, teenage daughter, bulimia, family relations, family life, parent child relationship, starvation, obsession, physical appearance, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
Style:
bleak, captivating, psychological, motivational, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
anorexia, therapy, illness, suicide, sister sister relationship, psychology, mental health, mental illness, disability, mental disorder, unconventional method, psychological manipulation ...
Place:
arizona, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Obsessed with perfection, young gymnast Andie Bradley nearly starves herself to realize her dream of making the Olympic gymnastics team.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, sincere
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
bulimia, anorexia, weight loss, mental illness, gymnast, gymnastics, self harm, love, dancing, humiliation, public humiliation, friends ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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:
tense, disturbing, captivating, touching
Plot:
ballet, ballerina, dancing, ballet school, dancer's life, dancehall girl, showdown, direction and purpose, ambitious woman, escapades, female protagonist, rivalry ...
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55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dawn isn't like other kids her age full of typical teenage angst about boys, school and parents. Her pain goes far deeper, and to deal with her emotional overload she physically cuts herself. The problem of adolescent girls committing ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, sad
Plot:
mental illness, self mutilation, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, psychiatrist, physical abuse, female friendship, bullying, suspense, depression, love, teen social issues ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
Plot:
female protagonist, reporter, marriage proposal, love triangle, dancing, dancer, love, ballet, ballerina, career, muscleman, footsie under the table ...
Place:
new york
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54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The disease slowly tears the family apart. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal told with warmth, depth ...
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
anorexia, mental illness, family relations, siblings relations, sisterhood, youth, kids in trouble, teenage girl, parents and children, mental disorder, teenage life, fighting illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.
Style:
psychological, touching, disturbing, sincere, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
anorexia, love, youth, hospital, hospitalization, mental illness, adaptation, life is a bitch, suspense, destiny, friendship, redemption ...
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48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Casey Powell is a young teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nevosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-induced vomiting, because of her troubled home life and problems at school in which her ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
psychopath, self-help, mental illness, bulimia, hopes, unfulfillment, human nature, misfit, elderly, youth, power relations, family relations ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Meet the Hunters your typical all-American family: two committed parents and two lovely daughters. However, looks can be deceiving because this family is plagued by the nit-picking comments of an overzealous mother determined to keep her daughters ...
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot:
mental illness, dysfunctional family, family relations, mental institution, obsession, family problems, life is a bitch, physical appearance, parents and children, family in crisis, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Julia is incredibly talented. She can become a great ballerina. But for this purpose she must give up everything: the interests of the family, her first love, friendship. Over and over again the heroine will face a complex choice between the dream ...
Style:
artsy, colourful, sad, realistic
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
ballerina, ballet, dancing, female protagonist, theater, teacher, dishonesty, friendship, mentor, social relations, disorder, performer's life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
russia
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40%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, social, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
mental illness, anorexia, obsession, physical appearance, weight loss, dancer, internet, family problems, imaginary friend, social problems, social issues, problem ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A 15-year-old girl, born in a boy's body, dreams of becoming a ballerina and will push her body to its limits in order for her dream to succeed.
Style:
lgbt cinema, sentimental, thought provoking, rough, social ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ballerina, transsexual, ballet school, trans woman, dancing, gay, transsexuality, lgbt, teenager, school, first sexual experience, psychologist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
antwerp, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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, audition, ballerina, rivalry, partner, modern dance, reputation, ballet, camp, competition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, thought provoking
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage life, high school, youth, parents and children, dishonesty, family relations, teachers and students, teenage pregnancy, teenager, teenage girl, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
As a patriarchal family yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for a transgender starlet.
Plot:
lgbt, transsexual, love, dancer, dancing, gay, transgender woman, lgbtq, dancehall girl, family relations, husband wife relationship, suicide ...
Place:
pakistan
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31%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ling Ai and He Jiang are young, ambitious, and in pursuit of careers imported from the West, but romantic longings and career ambitions are inevitably shaped by larger social forces.
Plot:
ballerina, dancer, female protagonist, moving, dancing, employer employee relationship, new love, relationship vs career, love, couple relations, romantic relationship, big city ...
Place:
beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story, this film tells the shocking tale of a mother and daughter who are nothing like they seem, their tumultuous relationship ending in a brutal murder.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, rough
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, hate, murder of mother, murder investigation, suspense, overprotective parent, treatment, mental illness, manipulation, mutilation, deception, grownups ...
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30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
relationships, terminal illness, dying, reconciliation, house, divorce, father son relationship, suburbs, redemption, illness, dysfunctional family, family relations ...
Place:
california, usa
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Pretty, popular, and slim high-schooler Aly Schimdt had plans of earning a sports scholarship to college but a knee injury ruins her chances. She decides to enter a documentary contest in the hopes of winning money for college. She believes that ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, documentary filmmaking
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, female friendship, summer school, overweight, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, contests and competitions, youth, working undercover, doctors and patients, social experiment, follow your dream ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A talented but emotionally troubled dancer runs away to New York City and quickly finds herself immersed in the cutthroat world of professional ballet.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
ballet, rivalry, dancer's life, dancing, mentally unstable, ambition, incest, dancer, artists and showbiz, brother sister incest, ballerina, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Graced with the instinctive ability to dance, Jenny Thomas wants nothing more than to become a professional dancer. All of her hard work pays off when she is accepted to a prominent dance program in New York. Against her mother's will, but with ...
Plot:
dancing, dancer, mormon, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, latter day saints
Place:
new york, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Katya is a young, outstanding and upcoming ballet dancer. In just a few weeks she is due to have a major audition for the New York Ballet Academy and Katya has good chances of getting a scholarship. But when she meets a group of street-dancers the ...
Style:
disturbing, sincere, captivating
Plot:
dancing, ballerina, father daughter conflict, hip hop, dancer's life, father daughter relationship, teen romance, teenage girl, ballet, ballet school, love story, teenager ...
Place:
hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines ...
Style:
psychological, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
mental illness, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, theatre group, depression, theatre director, husband wife relationship, underage drinking, brother sister relationship, african american, job, public speaking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This 2017 movie follows the original dance academy TV show and tracks where the characters are in their lives now.
Style:
captivating, sentimental
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dancing, ballet, friendship, dancer, teacher, dance school, school, artists and showbiz, ambition, ambitious, youth, student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Set in rural South India, a place where social barriers are built stronger than fort walls, VANAJA explores the chasm that divides classes as a young girl struggles to come of age.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot:
pregnancy, coming of age, couples, village, family relations, injustice, society, youth, teenage life, rape, dancing, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
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27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Three devastating teenage stories fuse beneath the calm of a quiet, average neighborhood.
Plot:
suburbs, post traumatic stress disorder, teenager, suicide attempt, closeted gay, anorexia, high school
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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