Movies about Ballet

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Abigail(2024)

After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.

Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett - With Melissa Barrera, Alisha Weir, Dan Stevens, Kevin Durand, Kathryn Newton, Angus Cloud, ...

Red Sparrow(2018)

| 2h 20min | Mystery, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 2,769 votes)

Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.

Directed by Francis Lawrence - With Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Jeremy Irons, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sergei Polunin, Kristof Konrad, ...

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Black Swan(2010)

| 1h 48min | Drama, Thriller, Horror

3.8/5 (with 6,560 votes)

A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.

Directed by Darren Aronofsky - With Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder, Ksenia Solo, ...

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Suspiria(1977)

| 1h 39min | Horror

3.8/5 (with 1,343 votes)

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

Directed by Dario Argento - With Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Alida Valli, Barbara Magnolfi, ...

Ballerina(2016)

| 1h 29min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.6/5 (with 862 votes)

Set in 1879 Paris. An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.

Directed by Éric Summer, Éric Warin

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Suspiria(2018)

| 2h 32min | Horror, Mystery, Drama

3.5/5 (with 1,158 votes)

Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks down and accuses the company's female directors of witchcraft. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist and a member of the troupe uncover dark and sinister secrets as they probe the depths of the studio's hidden underground chambers.

Directed by Luca Guadagnino - With Dakota Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, ...

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Billy Elliot(2000)

1h 50min | Drama, Comedy, Music

3.8/5 (with 1,721 votes)

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 stubbles 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 the audition is for the royal Ballet school in London.

Directed by Stephen Daldry - With Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Draven, Adam Cooper, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, ...

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Fame(1980)

| 2h 14min | Drama, Music

3.3/5 (with 189 votes)

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Directed by Alan Parker - With Irene Cara, Debbie Allen, Maureen Teefy, Gene Anthony Ray, Lee Curreri, Paul McCrane, ...

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The Red Shoes(1948)

| 2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 255 votes)

In this classic drama, 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.

Directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell - With Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine, Albert Bassermann, ...

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Mathilde(2017)

2h 10min | History, Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 32 votes)

The love story of the famous ballet dancer Mathilde Kschessinska and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

Directed by Alexei Uchitel - With Michalina Olszańska, Lars Eidinger, Luise Wolfram, Danila Kozlovsky, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Sergei Garmash, ...

Center Stage: On Pointe(2016)

1h 32min | Music, TV Movie, Drama

3.4/5 (with 35 votes)

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.

Directed by Director X - With Nicole Muñoz, Kenny Wormald, Rachele Brooke Smith, Peter Gallagher, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Gabrielle Rose, ...

Center Stage(2000)

PG-13

| 1h 55min | Drama, Music

3.5/5 (with 147 votes)

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.

Directed by Nicholas Hytner - With Amanda Schull, Zoe Saldaña, Susan May Pratt, Peter Gallagher, Debra Monk, Ethan Stiefel, ...

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Girl(2018)

1h 45min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 315 votes)

A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.

Directed by Lukas Dhont - With Victor Polster, Valentijn Dhaenens, Katelijne Damen, Arieh Worthalter

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Make Mine Music(1946)

| 1h 15min | Music, Animation, Kids & Family

2.9/5 (with 96 votes)

In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of nine musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as "Peter And The Wolf", narrated by the beloved voice behind Winnie The Pooh. In addition, you'll enjoy such classic cartoon hits as "Casey At The Bat," "The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At The Met" and "Johnnie Fedora And Alice Bluebonnet.".

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador, Jack Kinney, Robert Cormack - With Tatiana Riabouchinska, David Lichine

Limelight(1952)

| 2h 17min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 212 votes)

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Leonard Mudie, ...

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Center Stage: Turn It Up(2008)

1h 35min | Drama, Music, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 87 votes)

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.

Directed by Steven Jacobson - With Rachele Brooke Smith, Kenny Wormald, Crystal Lowe, Peter Gallagher, Ethan Stiefel, Harry Shum, ...

Save the Last Dance 2(2006)

PG-13

| 1h 30min | Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 103 votes)

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 Delacroix that she idolizes - Monique requires full commitment, discipline and hard work from her students. When Miles, who is a composer, invites Sara to help him compose the music for the dance choreography Sara's passion for hip-hop is sparked and she also falls in love with Miles. When she is assigned to perform Giselle in an important event, she feels divided between the technique of the ballet and the creative work offered by Miles.

Directed by David Petrarca - With Izabella Miko, Columbus Short, Jacqueline Bisset, Aubrey Dollar, Ne-Yo, Ian Brennan, ...

White Nights(1985)

PG-13

| 2h 16min | Drama, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 50 votes)

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.

Directed by Taylor Hackford - With Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page, Isabella Rossellini, ...

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The Company(2003)

PG-13

| 1h 52min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love

2.7/5 (with 45 votes)

Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.

Directed by Robert Altman - With Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco

Ballet Shoes(2008)

| 1h 25min | TV Movie, Drama, Kids & Family

3.2/5 (with 120 votes)

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. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.

Directed by Sandra Goldbacher - With Emma Watson, Emilia Fox, Victoria Wood, Richard Griffiths, Marc Warren, Lucy Cohu, ...

Ballerina(2024)

Action, Crime, Thriller

A young female assassin seeks revenge against the people who killed her family.

Directed by Len Wiseman - With Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, ...

Dancing on Glass(2022)

2h 17min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 30 votes)

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.

Directed by Jota Linares - With María Pedraza, Mona Martínez, Marta Hazas, Ana Wagener, Iria del Río

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Birds of Paradise(2021)

1h 53min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 60 votes)

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.

Directed by Sarah Adina Smith - With Kristine Froseth, Diana Silvers, Jacqueline Bisset, Caroline Goodall, Toby Huss, Didier Flamand, ...

Bloodsucking Freaks(1976)

1h 24min | Horror, Comedy

2.5/5 (with 49 votes)

Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of 'magic', they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the punters see as a trick is actually real.

Directed by Joel M. Reed

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Curtains(1983)

| 1h 29min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 44 votes)

Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

Directed by Richard Ciupka - With John Vernon, Linda Thorson, Samantha Eggar, Lynne Griffin, Anne Ditchburn, Lesleh Donaldson, ...

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Summer Interlude(1951)

1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 62 votes)

A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.

Directed by Ingmar Bergman - With Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin, Gunnar Olsson, Stig Olin, Renée Björling, ...

Mao's Last Dancer(2009)

| 1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 49 votes)

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 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.

Directed by Bruce Beresford - With Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Amanda Schull, Penne Hackforth-Jones

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The Bolshoi(2016)

2h 12min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

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.

Directed by Valery Todorovsky - With Alisa Freindlich, Valentina Telichkina, Aleksandr Domogarov, Nicolas Le Riche

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One Last Dance(2003)

PG-13

| 1h 40min | Romance / Love, Drama, Music

2.9/5 (with 25 votes)

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 save the company, re-connect with the passion and magic, and prove that miracles really can happen.

Directed by Lisa Niemi - With Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, Matthew Walker, Kathryn Bradney, Rasta Thomas

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Polina(2016)

PG-13

| 1h 52min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 52 votes)

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...

Directed by Angelin Preljocaj, Valérie Müller - With Juliette Binoche, Niels Schneider, Miglen Mirtchev, Kseniya Kutepova, Aleksei Guskov

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Movies about Ballet

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Abigail(2024)

Red Sparrow(2018)

Black Swan(2010)

Suspiria(1977)

Ballerina(2016)

Suspiria(2018)

Billy Elliot(2000)

Fame(1980)

The Red Shoes(1948)

Mathilde(2017)

Center Stage: On Pointe(2016)

Center Stage(2000)

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Girl(2018)

Make Mine Music(1946)

Limelight(1952)

Center Stage: Turn It Up(2008)

Save the Last Dance 2(2006)

White Nights(1985)

The Company(2003)

Ballet Shoes(2008)

Ballerina(2024)

Dancing on Glass(2022)

Birds of Paradise(2021)

Bloodsucking Freaks(1976)

Curtains(1983)

Summer Interlude(1951)

Mao's Last Dancer(2009)

The Bolshoi(2016)

One Last Dance(2003)

Polina(2016)

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