The Dancer's Peril

Royal Opera House: The Sleeping Beauty

2020 · ★ 7

The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn’t invited to Princess Aurora’s christening. She gives the baby a spindle, saying that one day the Princess will prick her finger on it and die. The Lilac Fairy makes her own christening gift a softening of Carabosse’s curse: Aurora will not die, but will fall into a deep sleep, which only a prince’s kiss will break. The masterful 19th-century choreography of Marius Petipa is combined with sections created for The Royal Ballet by Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell and Christopher Wheeldon. Recorded live as part of the Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season 2019/20 with encore screenings broadcast online during the #OurHousetoYourHouse programme.

Russian Dolls

2005 · ★ 6.6

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.

Step Up 2: The Streets

2008 · ★ 6.7

When rebellious street dancer Andie West lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the school's hottest dancer, Chase Collins, to form a crew of fellow outcasts to compete in Baltimore's underground dance battle The Streets.

Swan Lake: La Scala Ballet

2004

Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle perform in this 2004 La Scala production of the Tchaikovsky ballet conducted by James Tuggle.

The Red Shoes

1948 · ★ 8

A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

Masters of Georgian Ballet

1955 · ★ 6

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

The Tales of Hoffmann

1951 · ★ 7.1

A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

Pas de Deux

It’s 2019 in Boston, MA, and 18-year-old Billie, a pre-professionally Vaganova-trained ballet dancer, has four months until her final pas de deux exam. She has one goal: to be better than Gia, the best dancer in the class, a ballet “unicorn", and the girl who just became Billie's new roommate. Is it just rivalry and envy, or is there something else at play?

He Knew Women

1930 · ★ 6.1

A novelist has to choose between his wealthy patron and a penniless romantic.

Mr. Xia And Miss Shang

2021

Xia Ji pushes people away with his arrogance and sharp tongue, while Shang Jia is kind and considerate who does things to please others more than it being from the bottom of her heart. What kind of chemistry, will have, the two people with such contrasting personalities?

Shameful Behavior?

1926 · ★ 8

One time “plain Jane” Daphne Carrol returns from Paris a "polished" flapper. She sets her cap for her sister's brother-in-law, Custis Lee even though he is indifferent to her. When Custis’s brother, Jack, managing editor of the local newspaper prints a story of Daphne's return her picture accidentally appears over a news item about the escape of Sally Long from an insane asylum. Daphne gains entrance to Custis' house and poses as Sally, claiming him to be her husband. Fearful for his life, he humors her until he can engage a nurse to watch her. Daphne enjoys the joke until she discovers that her nurse is actually Sally--and Sally's husband tries to rob the Custis home. In the merry mix-up Daphne faints in Custis' arms and is forced to declare that she is his wife; after the complications are resolved, they decide to make the arrangement legal.

Dance

1990 · ★ 7

A choreographer from New York upsets the balance of ballet-duo lovers (Johan Renvall, Ellen Troy) in competition.