Ballet Movies

She came to the New York City Ballet as a teenager from Ohio and captured the heart and soul of the great Mr. B, inspiring the seminal ballets of her...

This is a short, simple ballet performance. Colors are used here, but the print is quite badly damaged.

A ballerina, whose pointe shoes are extended by a set of sharp kitchen knives, dances and twirls insistently until reaching exhaustion, fighting to ma...

Don Quixote is a 19th century work, choreographed by Petipa in 1869. Rudolf Nureyev revived it in 1966 and it is his version in La Scala Ballet’s repe...

A documentary about teenagers and about the time in life when infinite insecurity constantly wrangles with unbridled fantasies of immortality...

Jean-Christophe Maillot's Romeo and Juliet transports us into the tormented soul of Brother Lawrence: the action is staged as a flashback to the event...

The first ballet film made in Ukraine, based on Konstantin Dankevich's ballet from 1940.

In Jacob Sutton’s film “Ascension”, two young dancers soar up from the darkness beneath the stage at Bastille to the sumptuous Grand Foyer and eventua...

Ballet in two acts. Corps de Ballet of the Teatro Alla Scala. Music by Adolphe Adam.

A group of ballet boys are being bullied by a group of boxing boys in their local sports gym. The ballet boys start to plot a way to stand up for them...

A documentary about 15-year-old Oksana who follows her mother's dream to see her become a prima ballerina.

Odette dreams of becoming a ballerina, but the onset of scoliosis threatens that dream.

Inspired by dark and gripping real life events, this Royal Ballet classic depicts the sexual and morbid obsessions of Crown Prince Rudolf leading to t...

Many young girls dream of becoming ballerinas, but only very few are prepared to apply the all-out effort and make the sacrifices that this dream dema...

A dancer struggles with their self image, but continues to perform.

Isabel, 11, is forced to leave what she likes most in life: her ballet classes. The opportunity to dance professionally revives in her the hope of ful...

When a man's wife shows signs of anorexia as she pursues a career in dancing, he tries to force her to eat.

George Balanchine's abstract ballet danced to existing pieces of music by composers Faure, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. Each section represents a diffe...

Hailed as a masterpiece of 21st century dance, Akram Khan’s Giselle comes to cinemas for the first time with Artistic Director, Tamara Rojo, dancing t...

A masterpiece of classical dance, this Nutcracker is a magical version of the score by Tchaikovsky filmed at the Bolshoi Theatre. Recorded live in Dec...