Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002), Billy Elliot (2000), Black Swan (2010), Rhythm Is It! (2004), Ballets Russes (2005), Suspiria (1977), Mao's Last Dancer (2009), The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ballet movies.
Storyline: In this ballet version of Bram Stoker's classic vampire tale, Dracula (Zhang Wei-Qiang) arrives in London and performs a dance of seduction with the virgin Lucy (Tara Birtwhistle), whom he turns into a ravenous monster. Lucy's three suitors vow revenge even as Dracula stalks his next victim. When the trio's efforts prove counterproductive, professional vampire hunter Van Helsing (David Moroni) enters the picture and meets Dracula in a climactic battle.
Plot Keywords: vampire, virgin, van helsing, vampire hunter, real estate broker, fiancée, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The life of 11-year-old Billy Elliot, a coal miner's son in Northern England, is forever changed one day when he stumbles upon a ballet class during his weekly boxing lesson. Before long, he finds himself in dance, demonstrating the kind of raw talent seldom seen by the class' exacting instructor, Mrs. Wilkinson. With a tart tongue and a never-ending stream of cigarettes in her hand, Mrs. Wilkinson's zest for teaching is revived when she sees Billy's potential.
Plot Keywords: dancer, miner, teacher, father, friend, inspiring, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.
Plot Keywords: ballerina, mother, director, rival, young woman, ballet instructor, eerie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: RHYTHM IS IT! records the first big educational project of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle. The orchestra ventured out of the ivory tower of high culture into boroughs of low life for the sake of 250 youngsters. They had been strangers to classical music, but after arduous but thrilling preparation they danced to Stravinsky's 'Le Sacre du Printemps' ('The Rite of Spring'). Recorded with a breathtaking fidelity of sound, this film from Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch documents the stages of the Sacre project and offers deep insights into the rehearsals of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.—BOOMTOWN MEDIA BERLIN
Plot Keywords: dancer, choreographer, major, inspiring, fascinating, ballet, berlin ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For many, modern ballet began with the Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo, originally made up of Russian exiles from the Russian Revolution. This film tells the story of this landmark company with its stars and production as well as its power games, rivalries and tribulations that marked its turbulent history.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: ballerina, ballet instructor, impresario, endearing, striking, creative, st. petersburg, russia ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Suzy Bannion travels to Germany to perfect her ballet skills. She arrives at the Tanz dance academy in the pouring rain and is refused admission after another woman is seen fleeing the school. She returns the next morning and this time is let in. She learns that the young woman she saw fleeing the previous evening, Pat Hingle, has been found dead. Strange things soon begin to occur. Suzy becomes ill and is put on a special diet; the school becomes infested with maggots; odd sounds abound; and Daniel, the pianist, is killed by his own dog. A bit of research indicates that the ballet school was once a witches' coven - and as Suzy learns, still is.
Plot Keywords: schoolgirl, ballerina, teacher, witch, student, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. 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.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: dancer, peasant, boy, thrilling, ballet, star, time ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This a film version of the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (and the rest of "The Archers") work their usual magic here. The opera dramatises the three great romances in the life of the poet-hero presented in a series of flashbacks. Hoffmann's tales depict the struggle between human love and the artist's dedication to his work. Hoffmann loses each of the women he loves but gains instead poetic inspiration -- the ability to transform painful experiences into art.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: poet, doll, friend, singer, courtesan, enemy, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Christian Reed feels betrayed but objects not when Tara, who waved a fat damages claim, which her top lawyer probably would have won, in return for another audition at the National Ballet, isn't selected and accept to move to New York, moving in with Kat and her brilliant lover. She fails to pass any major audition, worse the Ollie, who co-created a novel choreography. Indomitable Ben Tickle has moved in with the senior teacher after recovering from his cancer and trains their tails off with Tara, but has another relapse.—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: friend, dance instructor, love interest, dancer, partner, touching, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this Pacific Northwest Ballet performance, it is Christmas Eve and festivities are under way. Clara (Vanessa Sharp) is excited when her godfather, Herr Drosselmeier (Hugh Bigney), arrives with a bag full of gifts, one of which is an intriguing wooden nutcracker. That night, while the rest of the household is sleeping, Clara visits the Christmas tree to inspect her nutcracker and soon finds herself immersed in a dream world that is both dark and enchanting.
Plot Keywords: girl, godfather, brother, mouse, prince, nutcracker, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of two women whose lives are dedicated to ballet. Deedee left her promising dance career to become a wife and mother and now runs a ballet school in Oklahoma. Emma stayed with a company and became a star though her time has nearly passed. Both want what the other has and reflect on missed chances as they are brought together again through Deedee's daughter, who joins the company.—Susan Southall <stobchatay@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: mother, ballerina, womanizer, husband, daughter, brooding, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: SPOILER: A young girl from a modest Russian family studies classical ballet. After many difficulties, she succeeds as a young woman to enter the prestigious Bolchoi. However she turns to modern dance, then improvisation, then choreography. The movie includes beautiful dances from acclaimed choreographer Angelin Preljocaj.—Teyss
Plot Keywords: ballerina, ballet director, ballet instructor, dancer, dance instructor, frenchman, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The education of three young students, Jodie, Eva and Maureen, as they study at the American Ballet Academy. Life isn't what they expected at the esteemed ABA, and all three face problems along the road. Jodie doesn't have the "ideal" body for dancing, Eva doesn't have the right attitude, and Maureen doesn't have the heart. Along the way, they learn that love can be found in unlikely places, and dancing should be a passion, not a duty.
Plot Keywords: dancer, teacher, boyfriend, friend, choreographer, director, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Director Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance 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.—Anonymous B
Plot Keywords: rudolf nureyev, dancer, engaging, intricate, ballet, cold war, defection ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ballet 422 is a record of the creative process of a young choreographer Justin Peck, just 26 years old, hired to create a new ballet for the winter season of the New York City Ballet in 2013. The New York City Ballet is considered one of the best companies in the world. Since 1990 he is led by Peter Martins, his Ballet Master in Chief. The documentary describes the intense backstage work that takes place during the process of creating and learning this new ballet: "Paz de la Jolla". It shows Peck working with his fellow dancers (Justin Peck is also a soloist at NYCB!), with musicians, lighting technicians, and costume designers in the composition of a new work, his third creation for the NYCB. It is the first time the New York City Ballet is exposed during the creation of a new a ballet.—bobbuckingham
Plot Keywords: choreographer, ballet director, ballerina, dancer, fascinating, engaging, moving ...
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