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Samurai Ballerina -L'étoile de Paris en fleur-

2026

Set in the early 1900s, the story follows two Japanese girls chasing their dreams: Fujiko, an aspiring artist, and Chizuru, an aspiring ballerina. They first cross paths in Yokohama, then, following a fateful reunion, pursue their dreams together in Paris.

7.5

Waterloo Bridge

1940

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.

7.7

Black Swan

2010

A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".

5.6

Never Let Me Go

1953

An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.

6.3

The Red Danube

1949

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

5.5

Margot

2009

At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.

6.3

Dance, Girl, Dance

1940

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 in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

8.0

Dancing Ghosts

1992

Choreographic school, young talents are collected here. Behind eight years of study - three months remain before the final performance. And finally, “Giselle” is appointed, roles are distributed, girls are worried - they are afraid of the wording “professionally unsuitable”, but Yulya’s thoughts are different. She fell in love for the first time. And she has to choose between her beloved and the stage.

7.7

Runaway

2010

A man falls in love with a half-woman/half-phoenix who fell to Earth from the sky.

0.0

Bobbie of the Ballet

1916

Wealthy Jack Stimson (Jay Belasco) falls in love with Broadway diva Velma Vrooman (Gretchen Lederer), and for her sake bankrolls the musical production in which she is currently starred. But when Velma proves to be fickle and unreliable, Jack shifts his affections to humble chorus girl Bobbie (Louise Lovely).

0.0

Love Never Dies

1916

Love Never Dies was set in France, and convincingly so (which was not often the case in American-made films of this period). It is established in the first reel that hero Felix and heroine Cecile have been sweethearts since childhood. Later on, Fate forces Felix and Cecile to separate, but viewers could take heart in the positive sentiments expressed by the film's title.

6.1

The Bolshoi

2016

Young and extremely talented dancer Yulya Olshanskaya from a small mining town draws a “happy ticket”: she is noticed by a former ballet dancer Pototsky and he promises her a future of great ballerina, worthy of the main stage of the country. However, in order to become a diamond, anyone, even the most outstanding brilliant, needs to be cut, and the way to the legendary stage of The Bolshoi Theatre for Yulya lies through the walls of the ballet school, where the more capricious teacher Galina Mikhailovna Beletskaya takes custody of the rebellious provincial. Turning into a prima will require incredible self-denial, and Yulya herself will have to make sure that the big ballet is not only the whiteness of the packs, the gold of the boxes and the slip of silk ribbons. But no obstacles will stop the one who has the big dream.

7.2

The Band Wagon

1953

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

5.2

Darling

2017

The moving love story of a dancer on the rollercoaster ride of her life, a drama about the rise and fall of a modern woman as she summons the courage to face her greatest trial.

6.5

Birds of Paradise

2021

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 competitive nature, sexual awakenings and how far they would go to win.

4.8

The Toll Collector

2003

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 see the problem: her legs make up about three-quarters of her height. She sees the impossibility of her dream and moves to a house on an isolated hill where she lives by herself, lonely, practicing her art, and then, in near despair, taking up knitting. Madness seems close at hand, but is there anything that can bring hope and pull her from her solitary, circumscribed life?

3.9

Dance Macabre

1992

Jessica, an American ballerina, reluctantly enrolls in a Russian dance academy, where she meets the charismatic choreographer Anthony. A dead ringer for his long dead lover, Jessica becomes his favorite student -- and his personal obsession.

0.0

Dance Pretty Lady

1931

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

0.0

Practice Makes Perfect

2025

Three dancers receive a new flatmate, unaware of what shadowy evil they have welcomed into their home.

7.0

Gaby

1956

A French ballerina falls in love with an American paratrooper on a two day pass in London near the end of World War II.

Genre	Drama, Romance
Production Companies	United Artists
Production Ccountries	United States of America

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