Ballet Movies

Flames of Paris (Russian: Пла́мя Пари́жа) is a full-length ballet in four...

Live from ROH 2009, TV relay 1/12/2009.

A young dancer from a small town in rural Oregon becomes infatuated with an older western writer — she confuses this reflection of her own...

After surviving a vicious attack, the body of a rigorous ballerina threatens to decay unless she placates a “certain hunger” to...

Set outside of place and time, Graeme Murphy’s Romeo & Juliet is a transcendent ode to the timeless love story. Recorded 21 September 2011.

Stories about young Ukrainian dancers and their hasty flight to the Netherlands. You see their new life as refugees. The former conservatory in The...

The Bolshoi Ballet performs the Russian fairy tale of a Queen Maiden (Maya Plisetskaya), a stableboy (Vladimir Vasiliev) and a lucky horse (Alla...

Maurice Béjart answers an interview about choreographic creation; it shows ballets and improvisations. The film was screened for the 1970...

Every weekend for six years, Jessica takes a bus from NYC, where she lives and works as a set decorator, to Boston, her hometown, where she cares for...

The showman of 20th century choreography, Maurice Béjart, stages his distinctive rendering of the beloved Christmas ballet "The Nutcracker"...

Two young lovers, offspring of the feuding Montague and Capulet families, value feelings above the past, pitting love and forgiveness against hatred...

La Esmeralda is a ballet in three acts and five scenes, inspired by the novel Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo, originally choreographed by Jules...

The Bolshoi presents the famous star-crossed lovers from Shakespeare’s most tragic love story set to Prokofiev’s cinematic score.

A vivid dream exploration of Moira Shearer's heart and mind, just before and after she agreed to star in Powell and Pressburger's beloved cinema...

Birmingham Royal Ballet perform Don Quixote in a production by Carlos Acosta. Based on Spain’s most famous novel, the classic ballet follows...

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky,...

Contemporary dance company Adventures In Motion Pictures' triumphant modern re-interpretation of Swan Lake, with its cast of male swans, has turned...

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...

Two playwrights and a former burlesque queen travel to Louisiana to research a musical they're planning on a local Southern hero.

A pair of short ballets, written for the screen, filmed and performed by artists of the Georgian SSR. In color, with narration.