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Scary Movie 5(2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 26min | Comedy
2.4/5 (with 1,246 votes)

Home with their newly-formed family, happy parents Dan and Jody are haunted by sinister, paranormal activities. Determined to expel the insidious force, they install security cameras and discover their family is being stalked by an evil dead demon.

Directed by Malcolm D. Lee - With Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex, Erica Ash, Molly Shannon, Heather Locklear, J. P. Manoux, ...

Billy Elliot(2000)

FSK: 6+ years
| 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.

Save the Last Dance(2001)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 53min | Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love, Music
3.3/5 (with 573 votes)

After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her brother Derek, who helps her with her dancing skills.

StreetDance 3D(2010)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 38min | Music, Romance / Love, Drama
3.2/5 (with 187 votes)

In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.

Directed by Dania Pasquini, Max Giwa - With Charlotte Rampling, Eleanor Bron, Jeremy Sheffield, George Sampson, Chris Wilson, Diversity, ...

The White Crow(2018)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 7min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 102 votes)

The story 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 beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.

Center Stage(2000)

FSK: 6+ years
| 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.

Limelight(1952)

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.

The One Man Band(1970)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 25min | Comedy, Music
3.0/5 (with 71 votes)

Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans’ nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group, with a baby and a note claiming he is the father….

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.

The Red Shoes(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

The Goodbye Girl(1977)

3.5/5 (with 66 votes)

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

Russian Dolls(2005)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 9min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 288 votes)

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.

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Neneh Superstar(2023)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 35min | Drama, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Born to dance, Neneh is a 12-year-old black girl who dreams of entering the Paris Opera Ballet School. Despite her enthusiasm, she will have to redouble her efforts to escape from her condition and be accepted by the director of the school, Marianne Bellage, the guarantor of traditions and the bearer of a secret that links her to the little ballerina.

Directed by Ramzi Ben Sliman - With Oumy Bruni Garrel, Maïwenn, Aïssa Maïga, Steve Tientcheu, Cédric Kahn, Alexandre Steiger, ...

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

Girl(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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

Mao's Last Dancer(2009)

FSK: 6+ years
| 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.

Grand Jeté(2022)

1h 45min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness that knows fewer and fewer boundaries. An uncompromising film about family relationships.

Directed by Isabelle Stever

Shall We Dance(1937)

3.7/5 (with 44 votes)

Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.

The Company(2003)

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.

Summer Interlude(1951)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

The Summer of Sangaile(2015)

1h 28min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at the summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents' lakeside villa. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds in her teenage love, the only person that truly encourages her to fly.

A Nutcracker Christmas(2016)

3.4/5 (with 24 votes)

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.

Directed by Michael Lembeck - With Amy Acker, Sascha Radetsky, Sophia Lucia, Kenneth Welsh, Katherine Barrell, Siobhan Murphy, ...

Joika(2023)

1h 50min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of becoming a great ballerina.

Dancer(2016)

1h 25min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 29 votes)

Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.

Directed by Steven Cantor

Yeh Ballet(2020)

1h 57min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 9 votes)

Discovered by an eccentric ballet master, two gifted but underprivileged Mumbai teens face bigotry and disapproval as they pursue their dancing dreams.

Directed by Sooni Taraporevala - With Sasha Shetty

Becoming Giulia(2024)

1h 40min | Documentary

Giulia Tonelli, principal dancer at the Zurich Opera House, returns from maternity leave. She has to fight to find her place and a new balance, between the competitive and extremely demanding world of an elite ballet company and her new family life.

Directed by Laura Kaehr

Anna Pavlova(1983)

2h 35min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor health, learning for her becomes unbearably difficult, but dreams of a ballerina career make her stubbornly deal with adversity. Anna’s performance and determination does not go unnoticed by the celebrated choreographer Marius Petipa, who helps to stage Pavlova's examination performance. Such a gift becomes a starting point for Ani in the world of big ballet, her fast-paced career, position in high society and world fame make her forget about close friends and especially her faithful Michel Fokine, who invested a lot of energy in the formation of a ballerina.

Directed by Emil Loteanu - With Galina Belyayeva, Svetlana Toma, Vsevolod Larionov, Sergey Shakurov, Valentina Ganibalova, James Fox, ...

Ballerina(2006)

1h 17min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Ballerina is a 2006 documentary film that follows the training sessions, rehearsals, and everyday lives of five Russian ballerinas at different stages in their career.

Directed by Bertrand Normand - With Diana Vishneva, Svetlana Zakharova, Ulyana Lopatkina, Evgenia Obraztsova, Alina Somova

Annaluise & Anton(1999)

3.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.

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.

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