Posts Tagged 'ballet'

Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses

Categories: 2006, Animation, Family, USA

King Randolph sends for his cousin Duchess Rowena to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve and her 11 sisters, into better ladies. But the Duchess takes away all the sisters fun, including the sisters favorite pastime: dancing. Thinking all hope is lost they find a secret passageway to a magical land were they can dance [...]

Barbie of Swan Lake

Categories: 2003, Animation, Family, USA

Kelsey Grammer lends his voice to this version of the classic fairy tale “Swan Lake.” Featuring Tchaikovsky’s music, this animated movie stars Barbie as Odette, a baker’s daughter lost in the Enchanted Forest, where she’s turned into a swan by the evil magician Rothbart. The Fairy Queen helps by allowing Odette to stay human, but [...]

Center Stage

Categories: 2000, Drama, Music, USA

After auditions, 12 young dancers make it to the American Ballet Academy. They’ll prepare for the student showcase to determine who will be asked to join the American Ballet Company. Tensions mount between Jonathan, the company’s aging choreographer, and Cooper, his best dancer, who also wants to choreograph. The brilliant Maureen seems poised for success, [...]

Hans Christian Andersen

Categories: 1952, Biography, Family, Musical, Romance, USA

A completely fabricated biography of the famous Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen featuring several of his stories and a ballet performance of “The Little Mermaid”.

American in Paris, An

Categories: 1951, Musical, Romance, USA

Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry’s art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications [...]

Suspiria

A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the school. She returns to her apartment where she is gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at [...]

Fame

Categories: 1980, Drama, Music, USA

At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, [...]

Waterloo Bridge

Categories: 1940, Drama, Romance, USA, War

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. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. [...]

Bon Cop, Bad Cop

Categories: 2006, Action, Canada, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

When a crime is committed on the border of Quebec and Ontario, everyone is forced to come together, whether they want to or not. As the investigation gets underway, we meet David Bouchard and Martin Ward, members of their respective provincial police forces who are forced to work together. The two men couldn’t be more [...]

Bon Cop, Bad Cop

Categories: 2006, Action, Canada, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

When a crime is committed on the border of Quebec and Ontario, everyone is forced to come together, whether they want to or not. As the investigation gets underway, we meet David Bouchard and Martin Ward, members of their respective provincial police forces who are forced to work together. The two men couldn’t be more [...]

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