Films about ballet

Films about ballet
List of the best films about ballet according to visitors: Desert Dancer, A Day at the Races, Mathilde, The White Crow, Sabre Dance, Darling, Modern Problems, Were the World Mine, Top Secret!, Waterloo Bridge.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama, music, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:44

Inspirational true story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life for his dream to become a dancer despite a nationwide dancing ban.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, musical, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrethriller, drama, history
CountryRussia
Duration02:04

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

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Serbia
Duration02:24

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.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryRussia

Cold autumn of 1942. Second year of war. Former Molotov city, which was renamed after the war to Perm. The Leningrad Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet after Kirov is evacuated here and in the process of tense preparations for the premiere of the Gayane ballet. In 8 hours Khachaturian writes the most performed creation…

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama
CountryDenmark
Duration02:08

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.

Markimdb: 5
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fielder, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses to not only win her back, but to gain a little revenge.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

If you had a love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams, gets to answer that question in a very real way. After his eccentric teacher casts him as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he stumbles upon a recipe hidden within the script to create the play's magical, purple love-pansy.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, crime, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:30

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genremelodrama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Italy
Duration01:38

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.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountrySpain, USA
Duration02:09

A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, melodrama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna , whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the relationship, and Danny and Theresa must either overcome her objections or give up the romance.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantasy, musical, family, cartoon, music
CountryUSA
Duration02:05

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

While celebrating their reconciliation and six years of marriage, the American actress Sally Nash and the British novelist Joe Therrian receive their close friends, some colleagues and their next door neighbors in a party. Under the effect of Ecstasy, revelations are disclosed and relationships deteriorate among the group.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantasy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryUSA
Duration01:15

A beautiful princess born in a faraway kingdom is destined by a terrible curse to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep that can only be awakened by true love's first kiss. Determined to protect her, her parents ask three fairies to raise her in hiding. But the evil Maleficent is just as determined to seal the princess's fate.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genredrama, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama, musical
CountryUSA

Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, musical
CountryFrance, Italy

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…

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with un-attentive parents and bullies at school.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's white. However, once Rev. Sultan convinces him to fight, he goes into heavy training while the confident champ takes it easy and falls out of shape.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrehorror, drama, musical
CountryCanada
Duration01:39

A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent Expressionist cinema of the early 20th century (complete with intertitles and monochrome photography), it uses dance to tell the story of a sinister but intriguing immigrant who preys upon young English women.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, music, history
CountryFrance, Germany, Belgium
Duration01:55

Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, musical
CountryUSA
Duration02:11

1896, Montmartre: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their female charm to let the representatives of law enforcement look the other way - or even attend the shows. But then the young ambitious judge Philippe Forrestier decides to bring this to an end. Will Simone manage to twist him round her little finger, too? Her boyfriend Francois certainly doesn't like to watch her trying.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, military, history
CountryChina
Duration02:10

A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love, each experiences rejection that shapes their lives.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountrySpain
Duration01:52

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon, music
CountryCanada, France
Duration01:58

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.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySweden

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

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
CountryAustralia

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.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:35

Based on a play about a female dancer who finds her inspiration in the dirt markets of Delhi

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, musical, family
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:25

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.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountrySpain, France

While rehearing Carmen of Bizet, the middle-aged choreographer Antonio brings the sexy Carmen to perform the lead role. Antonio falls in love for Carmen, who is an independent and seductive woman incapable to accept a possessive love. When Carmen has an affair with another dancer, Antonio is consumed by his jealousy like D. José in the original opera, entwining fiction with reality.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySpain, France
Duration01:30

A child does not stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon to bring him a tit only for him.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryFrance
Duration02:05

Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris once month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close...

Markimdb: 7.9
Genremelodrama, musical, western
CountryUnited Kingdom

Oklahoma! is a 1999 musical film directed by Trevor Nunn, choreographed by Susan Stroman, and starring Hugh Jackman as Curly McLain, Josefina Gabrielle as Laurey Williams, and Maureen Lipman as Aunt Eller. The production featured the entire 1998 London revival cast at the Royal National Theatre.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:52

Choreographic school, young talents are gathered here. After eight years of study there are three months to the final performance. And, at last, Giselle is appointed, the roles are assigned, the girls are worried - they are afraid of the wording "does not fit to be a ballerina", but Yulia's thoughts are occupied by another. She fell in love for the first time. And she has to choose between her love and the stage.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, France
Duration01:50

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, inner conflict, and standing on his toes!

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