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13 films tagged dance

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  • 2025 · Thriller

    Taken in as a child by an assassins' society that trains its killers as dancers, Eve grows up in the trade and goes after the people who killed her father. Wall to wall fighting, in the John Wick world.

    • Strongly fast
    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Ballerina

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Animation

    Shin-chan and his friends win a dance contest and are flown to India to perform, where a backpack from an antique shop turns one of them into a rampaging monster. Cartoon slapstick for children.

    • Strongly light
    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Super Magnificent! Scorching Kasukabe Dancers

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 10DANCE

    Little-known

    2025 · Romance

    Two Japanese ballroom champions, one in standard dances and one in Latin, agree to train together for a competition that needs both. Rivals to start with, and the practice sessions get charged.

    • Clearly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: 10DANCE

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Musical

    The life of Ann Lee, who grew up working a Manchester cotton factory in the 1700s and became the leader of the Shakers, told as a musical. The worship is danced and shouted, and so is much of the film.

    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Testament of Ann Lee

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Pretty Lethal

    Little-known

    2026 · Thriller

    A ballet troupe heading to a competition in Budapest breaks down and shelters in a strange roadside inn run by a former prima ballerina with a crime family. The girls end up locked in the basement, in tutus, and have to fight their way out.

    • Clearly plot-driven
    • Clearly fast

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Pretty Lethal

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2016 · Musical

    A jazz pianist and an actress who keeps failing auditions meet in Los Angeles and push each other toward what they want. People sing and dance, and it runs across a year in the city.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: La La Land

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2000 · Drama

    During the miners' strike a County Durham boy swaps his boxing lessons for the ballet class in the same hall, and hides it from his father. Funny and hard by turns.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly character-driven
    • Clearly simple

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Billy Elliot

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2010 · Thriller

    A ballerina gets the lead in Swan Lake and has to find a wildness in herself that her mother and her training removed. It stays very close to her as the pressure builds.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Black Swan

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2002 · Musical

    Two women on Chicago's murderers' row in the 1920s compete for the same lawyer and the same headlines. The numbers happen in her head, cut against the courtroom.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Chicago

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Frances Ha

    Little-known

    2012 · Comedy

    A twenty-seven-year-old apprentice dancer in New York loses her flat, her best friend and her place in the company, and keeps insisting she is fine. Black and white, and quick.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Frances Ha

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2001 · Musical

    A poor writer in 1899 Paris falls for the star of a nightclub who is promised to a duke. Cut very fast, and the songs are all borrowed from the last fifty years.

    • Strongly fast

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Moulin Rouge!

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1977 · Horror

    An American dancer arrives at a German ballet academy on the night another student runs out into a storm. The colours and the score do most of the work.

    • Clearly fantastic
    • Clearly heavy

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Suspiria

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2021 · Musical

    Two gangs fight over a few blocks of New York being demolished around them, and a boy from one falls for a girl from the other. Big numbers, filmed in the street.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: West Side Story

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.