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 captivating, realistic, feel good, serious, humorous and entertaining films and TV shows about / with ballet, dancing, ballerina, dancer's life, dancer, friendship, ambition, dance scene, rivalry and love and romance 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: Center Stage (2000), Flesh and Bone (2015), Black Swan (2010), Billy Elliot (2000), High Strung (2016), Find Me in Paris (2018), Bolshoi (2017), Save the Last Dance (2001), White Nights (1985), Birds of Paradise (2021).
Best films
List of ballet movies
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:
feel good, serious, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
ballet, dancing, love triangle, music, teenager, cheerleading, love and romance, ambition, hopes, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, san francisco, usa, manhattan new york city, hawaii
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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, 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
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780K
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, sexy, atmospheric, surreal, cerebral ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, dancing, psychology, insanity, character study, suspense, paranoia, hallucination, rivalry, surrealism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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138K
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:
inspirational, touching, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
coming of age, ballet, gay, father son relationship, friendship, dancing, working class, childhood, audition, follow your dream, boxing, dancer's life ...
Time:
20th century, year 1984, 90s, 80s
Place:
england, northern england, london, europe
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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, sweet, entertaining
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
dancing, ballet, dancer's life, violin, performance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, teenager, college, musician, culture clash, competition ...
Place:
new york
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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:
exciting, feel good, captivating, humorous, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
ballet, ballerina, female protagonist, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, culture shock, dancing, teenage girl, society, love and romance, chase, couples ...
Place:
paris france
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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:
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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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:
feel good, romantic, sweet, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
dancing, interracial romance, ballet, high school, dancer's life, hip hop, teenager, music, street dance, love and romance, african american, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, new jersey, usa, new york, san francisco
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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:
suspenseful, exciting, sexy, light, factual ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
ballet, dancing, cold war, defector, spy, culture clash, escape, kgb, happy ending, childhood, chase, catastrophe ...
Time:
80s
Place:
russia, siberia, ussr, london
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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:
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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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:
dancer's life, ballet, dancing, friendship, dance school, ambitious, teacher, ambition, teenage life, hopes, talented, dancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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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, lifestyle, rising to stardom, ambition, dancer's life, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, artists and showbiz, artist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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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, realistic, serious, feel good, uplifting
Audience:
girls' night, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick, kids ...
Plot:
dancing, ballet, family problems, against the odds, follow your dream, ambition, youth, siblings relations, family relations, orphan, hopes, talent ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
london, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, Serbia
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, tense, captivating, disturbing, non-linear ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
ballet, cold war, dancing, gay, dancer, politics, homosexual history, desertion, kgb, painting, lgbt, friendship ...
Time:
50s, year 1961, year 1938
Place:
paris france, moscow russia, ussr
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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:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sexy, fairy tale ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
ballet, dancing, ballerina, bittersweet, midlife crisis, mother daughter relationship, jealousy, rivalry, friendship, glbt, self-help, mother ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, oklahoma, usa, california
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
King Randolph sends for his cousin Duchess Rowena to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve and her 11 sisters, into better ladies. But the Duchess takes away all the sisters fun, including the sisters favorite pastime: dancing.Thinking all ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, colourful, light, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschoolers
Plot:
princess, barbie, ballet, dancing, imaginary kingdom, save the kingdom, rivalry, save the day, magic, follow your dream, magical, teamwork ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Ahiru (literally 'Duck' in Japanese), is a petite young girl in a junior high school's beginner ballet program. She's prone to stammering and clutziness. She has a huge crush on her sempai, Mute, a sad-seeming young man who ...
Style:
anime, fairy tale, touching, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
ballet, healing power, magical, school, princess, friendship, wish come true, supernatural ability, love and romance, once in a lifetime opportunity, emotionless, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, 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:
atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, feel good, dark
Plot:
ballet school, ballet, dancer's life, perfectionist, ballerina, gay, pretty girl, rivalry, teachers and students, breaking point, dancer, suspense ...
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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, entertaining, inspirational, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids
Plot:
dancing, dancer, ballet, dancer's life, youth, hip hop, street dance, contests and competitions, teenage love, dance contest, music, high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
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121K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Everyone deserves a chance to follow their dreams, but some people only get one shot. Tyler Gage is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore's tracks and the only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, sweet, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
dancing, happy ending, music, hip hop, love and romance, ballet, youth, dance school, couples, teenage love, teenager, high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Dance your way to a magical adventure with Barbie as Kristyn, a ballerina with big dreams! When she tries on a pair of sparkling pink shoes, she and her best friend, Hailey, are whisked away to a fantastical ballet world. There, Kristyn discovers ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, captivating, sincere, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, preschoolers
Plot:
barbie, ballet, imaginary kingdom, talent, princess, best friends, escapades, good versus evil, friends, dancehall girl, prince, dancing ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Barbie as Odette, the young daughter of a baker, follows a unicorn into the Enchanted Forest and is transformed into a swan by an evil wizard intent on defeating the Fairy Queen.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, light, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
barbie, unicorn, ballet, imaginary kingdom, good versus evil, rivalry, friends, escapades, curses spells and rituals, magical power, princess, prince ...
Place:
russia
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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, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
ballet, royal family, female nudity, palace intrigue, imperial russia, aristocracy, ballerina, mistress, impossible love, doomed love, forbidden love, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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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:
light, humorous, captivating, romantic, disturbing
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
ballet, dancing, dance contest, ballerina, ambition, performance, love and romance, hopes, dance studio, father son relationship, job, youth ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of ...
Style:
sexy, sad, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
ballet, dancing, female nudity, women, children, dancer, art, girl, fictional history, age-gap relationship, infidelity, adultery ...
Time:
1920s, year 1900, 19th century, 1890s, 20th century
Place:
europe, russia, ussr, florence, london ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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 fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, he ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
dancing, ballet, interracial romance, against the odds, dancer, ambition, communism, promise, immigrants, self fulfillment, human spirit, follow your dream ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1973, year 1986 ...
Place:
china, austin texas, texas, usa, asia ...
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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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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, dance school, starting over, lifestyle, lifestyle change, dancing, small town life, small town, women, ballerina, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, nevada, las vegas
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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:
captivating, sincere, disturbing, touching, romantic ...
Plot:
dancing, ballet, ballerina, modern dance, emigrant, wound, father daughter relationship, hunting, wounded, homeless, death of father, loss of father ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
russia, paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional
Plot:
ballet, revolution, girl, love, fall in love, rich and poor, couples, society, soldier, orphan, immigrants, world war two ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
paris france, new york, france, russia, st. petersburg russia
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