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1. 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: 105,276
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: 142,510 | Gross: $22.00M
3. Fame (1980)
R | 134 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean
Votes: 24,667 | Gross: $0.12M
4. The Conformist (1970)
R | 113 min | Drama
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio
Votes: 33,652 | Gross: $0.54M
5. Talk to Her (2002)
R | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Rosario Flores, Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling
Votes: 117,441 | Gross: $9.36M
6. Homesick (2015)
106 min | Drama
Two half-siblings who grew up apart meet for the first time as adults and fall in love.
Director: Anne Sewitsky | Stars: Ine Marie Wilmann, Simon J. Berger, Anneke von der Lippe, Silje Storstein
Votes: 1,807
7. Livid (2011)
Not Rated | 92 min | Fantasy, Horror
The suggestion of a big treasure hidden somewhere inside Mrs Jessel's once renowned classical dance academy will become an irresistible lure to a fiendish trap for Lucie and her friends.
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Stars: Chloé Coulloud, Félix Moati, Jérémy Kapone, Catherine Jacob
Votes: 7,788
8. On the Town (1949)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller
Votes: 18,770
9. The Lovers (I) (2017)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance.
Director: Azazel Jacobs | Stars: Debra Winger, Tracy Letts, Aidan Gillen, Melora Walters
Votes: 4,169 | Gross: $2.19M
10. Ballet Shoes (2007 TV Movie)
PG | 85 min | Drama, Family, Musical
In 1930s London, three orphan girls are adopted by their great uncle, who is an eccentric paleontologist, and his niece.
Director: Sandra Goldbacher | Stars: Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, Lucy Boynton, Emilia Fox
Votes: 9,170
11. Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001 Video)
TV-Y | 76 min | Animation, Family, Musical
Barbie (Kelly Sheridan) shows that if you are kind, clever and brave, anything is possible in this tale of Clara (Kelly Sheridan) and her amazing Nutcracker (Kirby Morrow), who set off on an adventure to find the Sugarplum Princess.
Director: Owen Hurley | Stars: Kelly Sheridan, Kirby Morrow, Tim Curry, Peter Kelamis
Votes: 8,178
12. The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
R | 132 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
Director: John Malkovich | Stars: Javier Bardem, Laura Morante, Juan Diego Botto, Elvira Mínguez
Votes: 6,876 | Gross: $2.38M
13. 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: 11,660
14. Taking a Shot at Love (2021 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A former professional dancer uses ballet to help an injured hockey star get back on the ice.
Director: Kevin Fair | Stars: Alexa PenaVega, Luke Macfarlane, Nolen Dubuc, Heather-Claire Nortey
Votes: 1,918
15. The Girl from Petrovka (1974)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The friendship between an American journalist in Moscow, Joe, and a free-spirited and emotionally vulnerable Russian girl, Oktyabrina, develops into romance. But will they be able to carry on under Socialist constraints?
Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Hal Holbrook, Anthony Hopkins, Grégoire Aslan
Votes: 674 | Gross: $0.48M
16. Center Stage: Turn It Up (2008)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A self-trained dancer from the streets of Detroit finds her way after auditioning for the most prestigious ballet academy in New York.
Director: Steven Jacobson | Stars: Kenny Wormald, Rachele Brooke Smith, Sarah Jayne Jensen, Nicole Muñoz
Votes: 6,376
17. Barbie in the Pink Shoes (2013)
TV-Y | 75 min | Animation, Family
About a young girl who finds a pair of pink ballet shoes and is taken to a magical ballet land.There she learns how to help her friends and follow her instincts.
Director: Owen Hurley | Stars: Kelly Sheridan, Katie Crown, Ali Liebert, Brett Dier
Votes: 2,190
18. Intimate Strangers (2004)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A Frenchwoman tells her marital troubles to a man she mistakes for a psychiatrist, and soon they form an unusual relationship.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Duchaussoy, Anne Brochet
Votes: 5,276 | Gross: $2.11M
19. Into the Beat (2020)
102 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A ballerina discovers hip-hop by chance and is faced with an impossible choice: Does she pursue her family's legacy or her newfound love.
Director: Stefan Westerwelle | Stars: Alexandra Pfeifer, Anton Wichers, Trystan Pütter, Nadja Stübiger
Votes: 1,573
20. The Wild Beasts (1984)
Unrated | 92 min | Horror
The water supply for a large city zoo becomes contaminated with PCP, and the animals go crazy and get loose.
Director: Franco Prosperi | Stars: Lorraine De Selle, Antonio Di Leo, Ugo Bologna, Louisa Lloyd
Votes: 1,179
21. Little Tickles (2018)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
Directors: Andréa Bescond, Eric Métayer | Stars: Andréa Bescond, Karin Viard, Clovis Cornillac, Pierre Deladonchamps
Votes: 1,683
22. Baby Bump(s) (2017)
TV-PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
A mother and daughter with opposing points of view both become pregnant at the same time.
Director: Noémie Saglio | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Camille Cottin, Lambert Wilson, Catherine Jacob
Votes: 1,506
23. The Nanny Express (2008 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
With their mother dead, Emily and Ben torment their nannies to quit as fast as their father hires them. Till a nanny named Kate shows up and slowly wins Ben over. That's bad enough, but ... See full summary »
Director: Bradford May | Stars: Vanessa Marcil, Brennan Elliott, Stacy Keach, Natalie Dreyfuss
Votes: 1,510
24. Who Knows? (2001)
PG-13 | 154 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler, Hélène de Fougerolles
Votes: 2,504 | Gross: $0.91M
25. Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession (1976)
74 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Runa, visits her sister three years after entering the convent to forgive her and help her make money. To make more money, Runa's sister wheedles gifts from various men, and Runa's sexual initiation at the convent teaches her meekness.
Director: Masaru Konuma | Stars: Luna Takamura, Yôko Azusa, Tatsuya Hamaguchi, Nobutaka Masutomi
Votes: 244
26. Thirst (1949)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama
A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth, Hasse Ekman
Votes: 2,824
27. The Obsession (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Thriller
A ballet teacher's obsession with a young student leads him to date the girl's unaware mother in order to get closer to the object of his twisted affection.
Director: David Winkler | Stars: Daphne Zuniga, Elise Gatien, Sebastian Spence, Jenny Cooper
Votes: 346
28. Hana and Alice (2004)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When two best friends develop a crush on the same boy, they develop a plan to trick him into dating them.
Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Anne Suzuki, Yû Aoi, Tomohiro Kaku, Sei Hiraizumi
Votes: 4,902
29. A Perfect Fit (2005)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A psychological drama about an unstable man, tormented by nightmares, who seeks help from a shrink but is pushed over the edge into increasingly dangerous, psychotic territory by a relationship he is unable to control.
Director: Ron Brown | Stars: Adrian Grenier, Polly Draper, Leila Arcieri, Michele Santopietro
Votes: 446
30. The Christmas Wish (1998 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama
Intent on fulfilling his grandma's Christmas wish, a man sets out to find the woman mentioned in his late grandfather's journals. He learns the secrets of his past and the true meaning of Christmas.
Director: Ian Barry | Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Debbie Reynolds, Naomi Watts, Alexandra Wilson
Votes: 778
31. Love Tomorrow (2012)
79 min | Romance
After an ex-ballet dancer's life is turned upside down after receiving devastating news, a chance encounter with a charismatic dancer marks the start to a fragile friendship that might turn into something more profound.
Director: Christopher Payne | Stars: Cindy Jourdain, Arionel Vargas, Max Brown, John McArdle
Votes: 80
32. You Can Tutu (2017)
87 min | Family
A heart-warming family film about one girl's dream of dancing in the lead and realizing the only way to do it, is believing that you can.
Director: James Brown | Stars: Lily O'Regan, Stuart Manning, Rosina Carbone, Kelly Sims
Votes: 177
33. The Gold and the Glory (1984)
PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Sport
A young Australian man sets out to prove himself, leaving behind his ballerina girlfriend to train for the Coolangatta Gold triathlon, a race once almost won by his father.
Director: Igor Auzins | Stars: Joss McWilliam, Nick Tate, Colin Friels, Josephine Smulders
Votes: 204
34. Die abhandene Welt (2015)
101 min | Drama
By pure coincidence, a photograph found on the internet by chance of a renowned American opera singer, Caterina Fabiani, throws the lives of Paul Kromberger and his daughter Sophie into ... See full summary »
Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Katja Riemann, Barbara Sukowa, Matthias Habich, Robert Seeliger
Votes: 211
35. Day of the Flowers (2012)
99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a popular party girl, travel to Cuba to scatter their late father's ashes. In losing and trying to reclaim their father's ashes, ... See full summary »
Director: John Roberts | Stars: Eva Birthistle, Charity Wakefield, Carlos Acosta, Bryan Dick
Votes: 347
36. Seven Women of Different Ages (1979)
16 min | Documentary, Short
Each day of the week is represented by a ballerina beginning with a young child and ending with an older ballet teacher.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Votes: 666
37. Specter of the Rose (1946)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Music
Ballet dancer Andre Sanine (Ivan Kirov) may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one. Andre is charming, if a little peculiar. Haidi (Viola Essen), a ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Hecht | Stars: Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen
Votes: 272
38. La tête sur les épaules (2013)
30 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Ting, ballet teacher, exchanges dance training against sexual favors with Melanie, a young insecure woman who lives in a RV. Then, the introductory sessions to dance alternate with ... See full summary »
Director: Renaud Ducoing | Stars: Claire Tran, Marilyne Fontaine, Mathieu Barbet, Anne Gaydier
39. My Only Love (1982)
Drama, Romance
This youth-oriented romantic film celebrates the idealism for young love.
Director: Eddie Garcia | Stars: Sharon Cuneta, Gabby Concepcion, Jackie Lou Blanco, Amalia Fuentes
Votes: 11
40. Getting to the Nutcracker (2014)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary, Family
Every Christmas season, The Nutcracker Ballet is performed in cities all over the world. What does it really take to produce this ballet each year? Our documentary film, Getting to The ... See full summary »
Director: Serene Meshel-Dillman
Votes: 78
41. Der König lächelt - Paris lacht (1936)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, History, Musical
La Marquise de Pompadour desires the best tenor in France for her opera company, and after an extensive search in the provinces, Chapelou is selected and forced to leave his ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Carl Esmond, Rose Stradner, Alfred Neugebauer, Thekla Ahrens
Votes: 11
42. The Ballet Master's Dream (1903)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy
A ballet master dreams of ballerinas.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Zizi Papillon
Votes: 262
43. Tight Expectations (2015)
Documentary, Short
As society progresses beyond traditional gender norms and expectations, reporter Emma Murphy takes a look into an issue where advancement has been slower: the prevalence of male ballet dancers.
Stars: Eino Partanen, Alex Hansen, Pernille Hansen, Morten Kyed
44. Tuany (2016)
6 min | Documentary, Short
Growing up in Complexo do Alemao Tuany, 22, managed to find her way out via competing as a ballerina. In spite of reaching certain recognition, she could not afford to continue her training... See full summary »
Director: Ayelet Vardi | Star: Tuany Nascimento
45. Bashful Ballerina (1937)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
Miss Klutz is the worst dancer that has ever enrolled at the school ran by Maestro Boris Cobblier, and he is even considering giving her money back to get rid of her, a consideration not to... See full summary »
Director: William Watson | Stars: Imogene Coca, Eugene Sigaloff, Irene Moore, George Lessey
Votes: 16
47. Canada Vignettes: The Ballet Master (1978)
3 min | Short, Documentary
A recently emigrated Russian ballet master, who opened a ballet school to teach young Canadians classical and folk dancing is profiled.
Directors: Judith Potterton, Rosemarie Shapley | Star: Michael Kane
48. She's a Wrestler: A Kimber Lee Documentary (2014 Video)
8 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A short documentary about American pro wrestler Kimber Lee, where she talks about getting into the business, working as a ballet instructor, dealing with sexism and inspiring fans.
Director: Kenny Johnson | Stars: Kimberly Frankele, Gregory Skipper
49. The Wayward Ballet Instructor (1997 Video)
60 min | Adventure
May is an outstanding ballet teacher who gets results using unorthodox training methods - she has her student dress in skimpy white underwear and has them practice ballet steps while bound and gagged.
50. The Kôsuke Kindaichi Series 9: The Arrow of Dead (1989 TV Movie)
72 min | Mystery
Director: Ikuo Sekimoto | Stars: Kayo Matsuo, Takashi Yamaguchi, Natsuko Migiwa, Yôko Nagayama