Ballet movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant ballet movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, feel good, humorous, serious and romantic films and TV shows about / with ballet, ballerina, dancing, dance, dancer, ambition, dancer's life, dance scene, friendship and rivalry plots mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as ballet: Flesh and Bone (2015), Black Swan (2010), The Bolshoi (2017), Find Me in Paris (2018), High Strung (2016), Birds of Paradise (2021), Sex Hunter (1980), Dance Academy (2010), Center Stage (2000), The Company (2003).
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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, bleak, erotic, sensual ...
Plot:
ballet, dancer's life, mentally unstable, dancer, incest, brother sister relationship, brother sister incest, ballerina, trauma, eating disorder, sex with brother, dancing ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, pittsburgh
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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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:
colorful, sad, realistic, artsy
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
ballet, ballerina, dancing, female protagonist, theater, teacher, high school, friendship, performer's life, disorder, mentor protege relationship, rivalry ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
A young ballet dancer from 1905 is transported into the 21st century with the power of a magical necklace.
Style:
captivating, feel good, exciting, tense, humorous ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
ballet, ballerina, female protagonist, dancing, friendship, culture shock, teenage girl, love and romance, society, pursuit, couples, rivalry ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era
Place:
paris france
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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, entertaining, sweet, happy
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
dancing, ballet, dance, dancer's life, violin, musician, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, competition, culture clash, breaking point, music ...
Place:
new york
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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, touching, teen
Plot:
ballet, ballerina, dancing, dancehall girl, dancer's life, ambition, dancer, rivalry, showdown, female protagonist, direction and purpose, escapades ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Overjoyed at the opportunity to further her career and repair her relationship with her boyfriend, she soon discovers that the academy has a much, much ...
Style:
erotic
Plot:
sex, ballet, ballet school, lesbianism, dancer, female nudity, violence, coca cola, wheelchair bound, teacher student sex, group sex, incest ...
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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, dance, dancing, teacher, ambitious, dance school, friendship, teenage life, hopes, talented, dancer ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia
Is relevant?
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, sentimental, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
dance, ballet, dancing, teenager, homosexual, love triangle, ballerina, music, competition, dancer, rivalry, hopes ...
Time:
90s, year 2000
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, san francisco, hawaii
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
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, dancer, choreographer, lifestyle, rising to stardom, dancer's life, ballerina, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in France. She makes it, but her journey will not end there...
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, romantic, disturbing ...
Plot:
ballerina, ballet, dancing, modern dance, emigrant, teacher, hunting, father daughter relationship, loss of father, homeless, wounded, homeless woman ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
russia, france, paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, Serbia, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Director Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance 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 ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
ballet, dancer, gay, politics, cold war, dancing, nudity, painting, desertion, kgb, biopic, male nudity ...
Time:
50s, year 1961, year 2019, 1950s, year 1938
Place:
paris france, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Isabelle is an inspired dancer, but when her sister and a classmate make her doubt herself, she's motivated by a ballerina to find her own way to shine. Stars Erin Pitt & Grace Davidson.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental, realistic
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
ballet, american girl, dancer's life, follow your dream, friendship, dance school, youth, family relations, child, dancing, artists and showbiz, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. ...
Style:
touching, feel good, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, pre-teens, chick flick, teens, kids ...
Plot:
family problems, ballet, hopes, dancing, against the odds, follow your dream, youth, orphan, siblings relations, family relations, dance, talent ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1919, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
london, europe, prague
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The moving love story of a dancer on the rollercoaster ride of her life, a drama about the rise and fall of a modern woman as she summons the courage to face her greatest trial.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
ballet, rivalry, ballerina, traumatized man, love triangle, relationship vs career, male female relationship, infidelity, love interest, teachers and students, love affair, romantic triangle ...
Place:
copenhagen
Is relevant?
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, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
ballet, cold war, dance, defector, cold war era, dancing, kgb, escape, ballerina, dancer, culture clash, expatriate ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
russia, soviet union, siberia, london, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The love story of the famous ballet dancer Mathilde Kschessinska and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, costume drama, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
ballet, longing, royal romance, palace intrigue, ballerina, royal family, impossible love, female nudity, doomed love, forbidden love, passion, aristocracy ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 20th century, 19th century, 12th century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After his crew breaks up, a gifted but insecure hip-hop dancer teaches at a top ballet school in Paris, where he falls for an aspiring ballerina.
Style:
humorous, captivating, romantic, disturbing, light ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
ballet, dancing, dance contest, ambition, youth, father son relationship, hip hop, dance, ballerina, choreography, passion, dance studio ...
Place:
paris france
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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, dancer, dance school, dance, friendship, teacher, school, artists and showbiz, talented, friends, youth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
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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:
thought provoking, sentimental, uplifting, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ballerina, transsexual, teenager, trans woman, dancing, transsexuality, gay, sexual attraction, ballet school, lgbt, transgender, first sexual experience ...
Time:
2010s, 90s
Place:
antwerp, belgium
Is relevant?
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, psychological, realistic, funny
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dancing, friendship, dancer, ballet, partner, audition, ballerina, modern dance, rivalry, reputation, dance, competition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, ballet, working class, father son relationship, dancing, audition, gay, childhood, friendship, follow your dream, lgbtq, poverty ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s, year 1985 ...
Place:
england, london, northern england, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.
Style:
sweet, teen, romantic, feel good, cute ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
dancing, interracial romance, high school, dance, ballet, dancer's life, hip hop, african american, teenage girl, street dance, father daughter relationship, music ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
chicago, indiana, usa, new york, new jersey ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based on the story of ballroom ...
Style:
sexy, inspirational, teen, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids
Plot:
dancing, teacher, dancer, dance, dancer's life, dedicated educator, high school, teenager, music, respect, teachers and students, tango ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When an attack brings down the star student at an elite ballet school, her replacement enters a world of lies, betrayal -- and cutthroat competition.
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, cute ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
ballet school, dancer's life, ballet, ballerina, perfectionist, rivalry, teachers and students, ambitious, breaking point, competitor, hate crime, manipulation ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Is relevant?
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:
serious, realistic, teen, feel good
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
street dance, music, interracial relations, dance, cinderella story, follow your dream, love and romance, hopes, dancing, hip hop, teachers and students, hardcase students ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa, new york, chicago
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
feel good, light, entertaining, humorous, romantic
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, ballet, aunt niece relationship, ballerina, child care, betrayal, forgiveness, male female relationship, winter, christmas romance, second chance, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl, impulsively marries a man, moves to his sleepy coastal town, and takes an uneasy role at her new mother-in-law's dance school.
Style:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
ballet, dancer, small town life, dance school, lifestyle, starting over, lifestyle change, dancing, small town, women, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, nevada, las vegas
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany, Cuba, France, UK
Duration: 155 min.
TV show
Story:
The film is based on the biography of the legendary Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. She became an internationally regarded ballerina after her performances in 1909 with the Dyaghilev's Ballet in Paris and in London. Anna Pavlova eventually ...
Style:
inspirational, poignant, melancholic, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ballet, ballerina, russian empire, dance, theater, children, female protagonist, legacy, performance art, fame, cultural icon, ambition ...
Time:
edwardian era
Place:
paris france, london, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Aleksey Temnikov is a renowned ballet dancer and an acknowledged genius whose career was abruptly cut short after sustaining an injury in the 1990s. Twenty years later, Aleksey discovers that his condition is degenerative and that he will soon lose ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, tragic ending, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
ballet, ambition, complex characters, father daughter relationship, loner, dancer, career, dance, choreography, legacy, risk, blind ambition ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union
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