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1. Center Stage (2000)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A group of 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.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Amanda Schull, Ethan Stiefel, Sascha Radetsky, Christine Dunham
Votes: 22,795 | Gross: $17.17M
2. Billy Elliot (2000)
R | 110 min | Drama, Music
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven
Votes: 142,829 | Gross: $22.00M
3. Suspiria (1977)
R | 92 min | Horror
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.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé
Votes: 105,463
4. Sex Hunter (1980)
67 min | Drama, Horror
Miki is a prima ballerina who, after the Swan Lake concert, receives numerous bouquets from fans of her talent. One of the bouquets was sent from the famous ballerina Akiko, who runs a ... See full summary »
Director: Toshiharu Ikeda | Stars: Erina Miyai, Ayako Ota, Teruo Matsuyama, Nobuyuki Kawakami
Votes: 205
5. Danse la danse, Nacho Duato (2012)
71 min | Documentary, Biography
Nacho Duato bows goodbye to the Spanish National Dance.
Director: Alain Deymier | Stars: Michael Carter, Nacho Duato
Votes: 8
6. Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
PG | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music
In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Penne Hackforth-Jones
Votes: 8,297 | Gross: $4.81M
7. (Re)Union (2007)
13 min | Documentary, Short
(Re)Union uses contemporary dance to examine the relationship between Africans and African Americans who have been displaced through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Four African American ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandra Joye Houston | Stars: Alexndra Joye Houston, Lela Aisha Jones, Julius Olabayo Ogunrinola, Sarah Naa Ayeley Okine
8. Movement (R)evolution Africa (2007)
65 min | Documentary
In an astonishing exposition of choreographic fomentation, nine African choreographers tell stories of an emergent art form and their diverse and deeply contemporary expressions of self. ... See full summary »
Directors: Joan Frosch, Alla Kovgan | Stars: Beatrice Kombe, Nadia Beugre, Nora Chipaumire, Sello Pesa
9. Ballet 422 (2014)
PG | 75 min | Documentary, Music, Sport
From first rehearsal to world premiere, Ballet 422 takes us backstage at New York City Ballet as emerging choreographer Justin Peck crafts a new work.
Director: Jody Lee Lipes | Stars: Justin Peck, Tiler Peck, Sterling Hyltin, Alisha Heng
Votes: 1,265 | Gross: $0.33M
10. Nijinsky (1980)
R | 129 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of Vaslav Nijinsky, who is widely believed to be one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time. Based on Romola Nijinsky's "Last Years Of Nijinski.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Alan Bates, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne, Alan Badel
Votes: 835
11. The Turning Point (1977)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Music, Romance
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.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt
Votes: 5,183 | Gross: $33.60M
12. Dancers (1987)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Musical
A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alessandra Ferri, Leslie Browne, Tommy Rall
Votes: 352 | Gross: $1.19M
13. The Nutcracker (I) (1977 TV Movie)
78 min | Fantasy, Music, Romance
The television adaptation of the Baryshnikov production.
Director: Tony Charmoli | Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey Kirkland, Alexander Minz, Gayle Young
Votes: 515
14. Place (2009 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 30 min | Drama
Place is a sensational dance film, especially created for world-famous dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov & Ana Laguna by an outstanding international team of artists.
Director: Jonas Åkerlund | Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ana Laguna
Votes: 40
15. Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2001)
95 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as his homosexual relationship with Ballet Russe impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his marriage to his Hungarian wife.
Director: Paul Cox | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Delia Silvan, Chris Haywood, Hans Sonneveld
Votes: 178 | Gross: $0.06M
16. The Red Shoes (1948)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann
Votes: 39,170 | Gross: $10.90M
17. Match (2014)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
As a Juilliard professor is interviewed by a woman and her husband for her dissertation on the history of dance in 1960s New York City, it becomes increasingly clear that there are ulterior motives to the couple's visit.
Director: Stephen Belber | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino, Matthew Lillard, Jamie Tirelli
Votes: 2,580 | Gross: $0.03M
18. Black Swan (2010)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
Votes: 824,974 | Gross: $106.95M
19. Isadora (1968)
M/PG | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards, John Fraser
Votes: 2,613
20. Summer Interlude (1951)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin, Annalisa Ericson
Votes: 6,663
21. First Position (2011)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary
A documentary that follows six young dancers from around the world as they prepare for the Youth America Grand Prix, one of the most prestigious ballet competitions in the world.
Director: Bess Kargman | Stars: Aran Bell, Rebecca Houseknecht, Joan Sebastian Zamora, Miko Fogarty
Votes: 3,455 | Gross: $1.10M
22. Ballets Russes (2005)
Not Rated | 118 min | Documentary, History, Music
Ballets Russes is an intimate portrait of a group of pioneering artists -- now in their 70s, 80s and 90s -- who gave birth to modern ballet.
Directors: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine | Stars: Irina Baronova, Kenneth Kynt Bryan, Yvonne Chouteau, Yvonne Craig
Votes: 698 | Gross: $0.82M
23. Never Stand Still (2012)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Biography
The film explores why dance matters - to those who create and perform it and to those who watch it. This documentary tells the remarkable story of how an abandoned Massachusetts farm has ... See full summary »
Director: Ron Honsa | Stars: Marge Champion, Merce Cunningham, Suzanne Farrell, Frederic Franklin
Votes: 36 | Gross: $0.01M
24. Ballerina (I) (2012)
50 min | Documentary, Biography
A poetic take on a true pas de trois - the difficult balance act between human love and true artistic passion.
Director: Maja Friis | Stars: Stefanos Bizas, Stina Ekblad, Ana Sendas, Jonathan D. Sikell
Votes: 18
25. Five Dances (2013)
TV-14 | 83 min | Drama, Music, Romance
The coming of age tale of an extraordinarily gifted young dancer recently arrived in New York City.
Director: Alan Brown | Stars: Ryan Steele, Reed Luplau, Catherine Miller, Kimiye Corwin
Votes: 2,874
26. Only When I Dance (2009)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary
Two young kids try to dance their way out of the favelas of Rio.
Director: Beadie Finzi | Stars: Irlan Santos da Silva, Isabela Coracy Alves Nascimento Santos, Mariza Estrella
Votes: 272 | Gross: $0.01M
27. Pina (2011)
PG | 103 min | Documentary, Music
A tribute to the late German choreographer Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante
Votes: 15,951 | Gross: $3.52M
28. The Children of Theatre Street (1977)
G | 90 min | Documentary
A documentary on the Kirov School of Ballet in Russia, narrated by Princess Grace of Monaco.
Directors: Robert Dornhelm, Earle Mack | Stars: Grace Kelly, Angelina Armeiskaya, Michaela Cerna, Galina Mezenzewa
Votes: 167
29. Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet (2001)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Music
ETOILES: DANCERS OF THE PARIS OPERA BALLET celebrates the legacy of one of the best ballet companies in the world by weaving together rehearsals, tour snapshots and performances of ... See full summary »
Director: Nils Tavernier | Stars: Aurélie Dupont, Laurent Hilaire, Nicolas Le Riche, Manuel Legris
Votes: 181 | Gross: $0.05M
30. A Ballerina's Tale (2015)
Unrated | 85 min | Documentary
A feature documentary on African American ballerina Misty Copeland that examines her prodigious rise, her potentially career ending injury alongside themes of race and body image in the elite ballet world.
Director: Nelson George | Stars: Misty Copeland, Deirdre Kelly, Susan Fales-Hill, Leyla Fayyaz
Votes: 713 | Gross: $0.10M
31. Heart of Dance (2013)
Drama, Family, Romance
Seventeen year old Kealy Charmichael has always danced in the shadow of her younger sister Anna. When Anna is killed in a tragic accident, Kealy tries to fulfill Anna's dream of being a ... See full summary »
Director: Terence H. Winkless | Stars: Alisha Newton, Brennan Elliott, Avery Konrad, Julia Sarah Stone
Votes: 24
32. Ballet (1989)
101 min | Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Young American ballerina enrolls in a prestigious ballet school in Hungary. She suddenly becomes inexplicably obsessed with Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and her personality completely changes. A young man in love with her investigates.
Director: Peter Del Monte | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Gary McCleery, Laurent Terzieff, Olimpia Carlisi
Votes: 825
33. Dancing for Mr. B: Six Balanchine Ballerinas (1989)
86 min | Documentary
Six of George Balanchine's finest stars, Maria Tallchief, Mary Ellen Moylan, Melissa Hayden, Allegra Kent, Merrill Ashley and Darci Kistler pay a moving tribute to the legendary ... See full summary »
Directors: Anne Belle, Deborah Dickson | Stars: George Balanchine, Diana Adams, Merrill Ashley, Suzanne Farrell
Votes: 26
34. An Evening with the Royal Ballet (1963)
85 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary about the Royal Ballet. Includes selections from "Les Sylphides" and "The Sleeping Beauty".
Directors: Anthony Asquith, Anthony Havelock-Allan | Stars: Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Antoinette Sibley
Votes: 29
35. Giselle (1970)
95 min | Romance, Music
A film version of the ballet Giselle. Filmed in a studio, using innovative editing and cinematography to go along with the choreography, this film stands out from filmed stage-performances.
Director: Hugo Niebeling | Stars: Carla Fracci, Erik Bruhn, Bruce Marks, Toni Lander
Votes: 47
36. Die Kameliendame (1987)
129 min | Musical
Director: John Neumeier | Stars: Marcia Haydée, Ivan Liska, Lynne Charles, Jeffrey Kirk
Votes: 24
37. The Royal Ballet (1960)
Not Rated | 131 min | Music
Filmed on the stage of London's Covent Garden. Includes extracts from Swan lake, Ondine & The Firebird.
Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Brian Ashbridge, Rosemary Lindsay
Votes: 32
38. Martha Graham: An American Original in Performance (1957)
90 min | Documentary
A documentary containing three historic performances in the world of dance: (1) "A Dancer's World" demonstrates the challenge and beauty of expression through movement, dance and ballet. (2... See full summary »
Director: Peter Glushanok | Stars: Martha Graham, Yuriko, Helen McGehee, Gene McDonald
Votes: 42
39. Entr'acte (1924)
22 min | Short
An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp
Votes: 4,198
40. StreetDance 3D (2010)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Music, Romance
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.
Directors: Max Giwa, Dania Pasquini | Stars: Nichola Burley, Richard Winsor, Ukweli Roach, Frank Harper
Votes: 11,662
41. Shall We Dance? (1996)
PG | 136 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.
Director: Masayuki Suô | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eri Watanabe
Votes: 11,733 | Gross: $9.68M
42. Strictly Ballroom (1992)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Pat Thomson
Votes: 29,410 | Gross: $11.74M
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