MOVIEPAD
Search icon

Movies Like Ibsen's Ghosts

If you liked Ibsen's Ghosts (2017), a movie directed by Marit Moum Aune, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Feel the Beat

    Feel the Beat (2020)

    ★ 7.5/10

    After failing to make it on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly begins training a misfit group of young dancers for a competition.

  2. 2Limelight

    Limelight (1952)

    ★ 7.9/10

    A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

  3. 3Take the Lead

    Take the Lead (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely new style of dance. Based…

  4. 4The Red Shoes

    The Red Shoes (1948)

    ★ 8/10

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

  5. 5High Strung Free Dance

    High Strung Free Dance (2018)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Zander Raines, a dazzling and tempestuous young choreographer, gives the break of a lifetime to two hopeful artists when he casts a stunning contemporary dancer, Barlow, and innovative pianist, Charlie, in New York’s…

  6. 6You Got Served

    You Got Served (2004)

    ★ 6.4/10

    At Mr. Rad's Warehouse, the best hip-hop crews in Los Angeles compete for money and respect. But when a suburban crew crashes the party, stealing their dancers — and their moves — two warring friends have to pull…

  7. 7StreetDance 3D

    StreetDance 3D (2010)

    ★ 6.5/10

    In order to win the Street Dance Championships, a dance crew is forced to work with ballet dancers from the Royal Dance School in exchange for rehearsal space.

  8. 8Center Stage: On Pointe

    Center Stage: On Pointe (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Jonathan Reeves is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy, and enlists his top choreographers Charlie, Cooper and Tommy to recruit dancers to compete at a camp…

  9. 9Five Dances

    Five Dances (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A gifted young dancer arrives in New York City and joins the downtown contemporary dance world. With talent to burn, he soon must choose between his responsibility to his broken family in the Midwest, and forging a…

  10. 10High Strung

    High Strung (2016)

    ★ 7/10

    When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common…

  11. 11Save the Last Dance

    Save the Last Dance (2001)

    ★ 6.6/10

    After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her…

  12. 12Fame

    Fame (1980)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

  13. 13Suspiria

    Suspiria (2018)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will…

  14. 14Footloose

    Footloose (2011)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling…

  15. 15Black Swan

    Black Swan (2010)

    ★ 7.7/10

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

  16. 16Flashdance

    Flashdance (1983)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Alex Owens, a young woman juggling between two odd jobs, aspires to become a successful ballet dancer. Nick, who is her boss and lover, supports and encourages her to fulfil her dream.

  17. 17Dancer

    Dancer (2016)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.

  18. 18Top Hat

    Top Hat (1935)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes…

  19. 19Dance with Me

    Dance with Me (1998)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone…

  20. 20Love Happy

    Love Happy (1949)

    ★ 5.8/10

    The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.

← Back to Ibsen's Ghosts