Ballet Movies

Taisiya and Fadei are two teenagers who share a dream of becoming ballet dancers. Due to the war, they left their hometown of Kharkiv to pursue...

After years on the margins of a ballet company because of her skin color, a young Black dancer finally takes the lead role. As her body is exoticized...

In a ballet rendition of the Goethe story of the same name, a young inexperienced apprentice of a powerful wizard tries to use magic to get through...

Ballet in a prologue and three acts based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils; music by Chopin. The passionate tale of Marguerite Gautier and...

Set in Paris, the story concentrates on the romantic triangle involving cabaret singer Liane, bon vivant Tony and petty crook Jean.

Giselle(s) revisits the classic Giselle through the lens of violence against women, giving the famous 1841 ballet a contemporary social and political...

The Grand Duke Alexis has been happy with his wife, Lola, formerly the queen of the St. Petersburg ballet, and their baby daughter, Vasta. But the...

In 1964, the Joffrey Ballet company splits over a struggle for artistic control and the HARKNESS BALLET is born, revolutionizing the way dance is...

With family-sized helpings of Matthew Bourne’s trademark wit, pathos and magical fantasy, Nutcracker! follows Clara’s bittersweet journey...

"Music is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself." This quote from Claude...

The attempt to accompany the creative process (with the inevitable difficulties and silences) of five women-dancers-choreographers, in their...

Behind every performance lies a story that begins long before the curtains open. This documentary follows the creative process, preparation, and...

The film recording of the ballet performance of the State Theatre in Brno was expensively realized in a theatrically stylized set built in the...

Is there still a stigma for boys who want to enter ballet? Film-maker Richard Macer investigates the reality of being a male dancer today at the...

"In order to preserve all our achievements for posterity it is necessary to resort to the aid of the motion picture, which will be a great...

Facing financial challenges and constant risks of injury, an innovative ballet company strives to bring the iconic Canadian story of Anne of Green...

This film documents the work of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia. The first part features the company performing a dance on the legendary origins of...

Russian ballet version of Shakespeare's tragedy about star crossed lovers from two feuding Italian Renaissance families. The film was based on the...