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Movies Like La Fille mal gardée

If you liked La Fille mal gardée (2012), 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. 1Ballet Shoes

    Ballet Shoes (2008)

    ★ 6.3/10

    An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one…

  2. 2The Band Wagon

    The Band Wagon (1953)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

  3. 3Billy Elliot

    Billy Elliot (2000)

    ★ 7.6/10

    County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is…

  4. 4Limelight

    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.

  5. 5My Generation

    My Generation (2017)

    ★ 7/10

    The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s swinging London.

  6. 6The American

    The American (2023)

    ★ 6.8/10

    American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of becoming a great ballerina.

  7. 7The 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.

  8. 8Billy Elliot: The Musical Live

    Billy Elliot: The Musical Live (2014)

    ★ 8.1/10

    In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner…

  9. 9Take 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…

  10. 10Black 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."

  11. 11The White Crow

    The White Crow (2018)

    ★ 6.5/10

    The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by…

  12. 12The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall

    The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)

    ★ 8.3/10

    A disfigured musical genius, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorises the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protégée whom he trains and loves. The 25th anniversary of the first public…

  13. 13Hamlet

    Hamlet (1948)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as…

  14. 14Burlesque

    Burlesque (2010)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Ali leaves behind a troubled life and follows her dreams to Los Angeles, where she lands a job as a cocktail waitress at the Burlesque Lounge, a once-majestic theater that houses an inspired musical revue. Vowing to…

  15. 15Audrey

    Audrey (2020)

    ★ 7.1/10

    An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).

  16. 16Houdini

    Houdini (1953)

    ★ 6.6/10

    By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails.

  17. 17Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

    Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022)

    ★ 6.8/10

    On a cold Christmas Eve, selfish miser Ebenezer Scrooge has one night left to face his past — and change the future — before time runs out.

  18. 18Just Mercy

    Just Mercy (2019)

    ★ 7.8/10

    The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence…

  19. 19The Pigeon Tunnel

    The Pigeon Tunnel (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Academy Award winner Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of David Cornwell, the former spy known to the literary world as John le Carré.

  20. 20The Great Buster: A Celebration

    The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true…

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