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Dance Pretty Lady

During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.

1931

The Men in Her Life

A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor

1941

The Dying Swan

After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enrapt

1917

The Toll Collector

A parable about a thwarted dream. A narrator tells us about a young woman who wants, more than anything, to be a ballerina. Thanks to animation, we se

2003

Dance, Subaru!

Subaru and her twin brother Kazuma share a dream in becoming ballet dancers, but their passion is discouraged by their father. After Kazuma's death fr

2009

The Mad Genius

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer fa

1931

The Promised Land

Ling Ai and He Jiang are young, ambitious, and in pursuit of careers imported from the West, but romantic longings and career ambitions are inevitably

2015

Sunshine Becomes You

A contemporary ballet dancer helps a pianist recover from his hand injury after causing him to fall down the stairs.

2015

Carillon

Ortensia is a mechanical ballerina, that every day is forced to dance for an audience, in a seemingly endless loop. But one day, she sees in the crowd

2018

Déjà Vu

A choreographer who believes that he was reincarnated also believes that his present wife possesses the soul of his wife in his previous life, a balle

1985

Birds of Paradise

Two dancers at an elite ballet academy in Paris must compete for a contract to join the highly coveted Opéra National de Paris as they confront their

2021

The Night Is Young

Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with balle

1935

Louise

Louise, ballerina at the Garnier Opera in 1895, rushes home after a show but is stopped by a friend asking for money. Louise knows what to do in order

2021

Dance of the Weed

A clumsy yokel of a male weed courts a delicate female flower ballerina by trying to dance with her.

1941

The American

American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of becoming a great ballerina.

2023

The Band Wagon

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

1953

A Nutcracker Christmas

When her niece is cast in The Philadelphia Ballet’s production of the Nutcracker, a jaded ex-ballerina is forced to come to terms with the life and lo

2016

The Cowgirl and the Ballerina

A mother and daughter struggle between fantasy and reality.

2016

Dance, Girl, Dance

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career

1940

The Red Danube

A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

1949