The Best Ballet Movies
These are the best ballet movies ever made, ranked from best to worst by fans just like you. The best ballet movies show off lovely ballet dancing and portray the inner lives of ballerinas. These are the top ballet films, but if you believe we missed one, please feel free to add it to the list yourself. While ballet might not be for everyone, it certainly has a way of giving us some of the best movies available anywhere. This list includes such great movies about ballet as Black Swan and Billy Elliot. While most of the films are dramas, there is also some comedy, and even a thriller or two.
What are the best ballet films? What movies have ballet in them? Ballet originated during the Italian Renaissance. Since then, it has been refined and is today considered one of the most difficult forms of dance to master. Many of the films on this list show ballet dancing at its best.
- 1Amanda Schull, Zoe Saldana, Susan May Pratt
- 2Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel
- 3Aran Bell, Rebecca Houseknecht, Joan Sebastian Zamora
- 4Julie Walters, Jamie Bell, Jamie Draven
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Stephen Daldry
The life of 11-year-old Billy Elliot, a coal miner's son in Northern England, is forever changed one day when he stumbles upon a ballet class during his weekly boxing lesson. Before long, he finds ...more - 5Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring
- 6Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Released: 1977
- Directed by: Herbert Ross
Forced to give up ballet after becoming pregnant, Deedee (Shirley MacLaine) moved from New York to Oklahoma to raise a family with her husband (Tom Skerritt). When her old friend and fellow ...more
