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Movies Like Belly Dancing Enlightenment

If you liked Belly Dancing Enlightenment (2005), a movie, 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. 1Step Up

    Step Up (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Delinquent Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with up-and-coming dancer Nora.

  2. 2Flamingo Road

    Flamingo Road (1949)

    ★ 7/10

    A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

  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. 4Dance 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…

  5. 5Pumping Iron

    Pumping Iron (1977)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Amateur and professional bodybuilders prepare for the 1975 Mr. Olympia and Mr. Universe contests as five-time champion Arnold Schwarzenegger defends his Mr. Olympia title against Serge Nubret and the shy young Lou…

  6. 6Mao’s Last Dancer

    Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

    ★ 6.6/10

    At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American…

  7. 7Limelight

    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.

  8. 8Barbie & Her Sisters in a Puppy Chase

    Barbie & Her Sisters in a Puppy Chase (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Barbie and her sisters go to an island paradise for a dance competition, but they must work together as a team to find their pets after their furry friends go missing at a horse festival.

  9. 9Barbie & Her Sisters in A Pony Tale

    Barbie & Her Sisters in A Pony Tale (2013)

    ★ 7/10

    Barbie, and her sisters set off to the Alps for a riding tournament at their Aunt's Academy, but when Skipper finds out the Academy is due to be sold they set out to win. Barbie is distracted by the myth of an ancient…

  10. 10StreetDance 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.

  11. 11Swing Time

    Swing Time (1936)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She…

  12. 12Dance Academy: The Movie

    Dance Academy: The Movie (2017)

    ★ 7.1/10

    This 2017 movie follows the original dance academy TV show and tracks where the characters are in their lives now.

  13. 13Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema

    Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema (2022)

    ★ 7.5/10

    With mesmerizing footage and time lapses of animators at work, this behind-the-scenes special captures the artistry of a unique tale years in the making.

  14. 14Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five

    Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five (2008)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Ordered to teach a martial arts class of rambunctious bunny kittens, Po tells stories of each of the Furious Five's pasts.

  15. 15Barbie: Mermaid Power

    Barbie: Mermaid Power (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Barbie 'Brooklyn' Roberts, Barbie 'Malibu' Roberts, and sisters Skipper, Stacie, and Chelsea go on an underwater adventure as they transform into mermaids to help save the world of Pacifica.

  16. 16Love at First Dance

    Love at First Dance (2018)

    ★ 6/10

    Hope is tasked with teaching Manhattan's former "Most Eligible Bachelor" how to dance for his extravagant, society wedding. But as the dance lessons progress, complications ensue when feelings begin to develop between…

  17. 17There's Always Tomorrow

    There's Always Tomorrow (1956)

    ★ 7.2/10

    When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.

  18. 18Up in the Air

    Up in the Air (2009)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his…

  19. 19Hairspray

    Hairspray (2007)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends…

  20. 20Flicka 2

    Flicka 2 (2010)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Carrie is a big-city teenager whose life is turned upside down when she moves to a horse ranch in Wyoming to live with her father. But everything changes when Carrie meets Flicka, a wild, jet-black mustang who's just…

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