Movies like Billy Elliot (movies similar to Billy Elliot)

[baris]

Billy Elliot is a great movie. And, if you enjoyed the movie, you are sure gonna love these. Lets make a list of movies that are similar or suited for same audience.

[mai]

Save the Last Dance 2001

A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough semi-criminal past.

Save the Last Dance features feel good, romantic, sweet, entertaining and serious style.

[gerald]

Nowhere Boy 2009

The drama tells the story of Lennons teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood

Nowhere Boy features sincere, touching, witty, sentimental and semi serious style.

[KennethRap]

The Chorus 2004

Set in 1940s France a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

The Chorus features touching, uplifting, sentimental, feel good and serious style.

[Antonioliz]

Madame Sousatzka 1988

The relationship between a demanding piano teacher and her student an Indian prodigy.

Madame Sousatzka features touching, sentimental, realistic, serious and melancholic style.

[Svetapennob]

Mr. Hollands Opus 1995

In 1965 passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher convinced its just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but ...

Mr. Hollands Opus features emotional, touching, realistic, serious and sincere style.

[Michaelderne 2]

Center Stage 2000

A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.

Center Stage features serious, sentimental, touching, feel good and realistic style.

[Gregory Hunts]

Step Up 2: The Streets 2008

When rebellious street dancer Andie 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 schools hottest dancer Chase to form a crew of ...

Step Up 2: The Streets features captivating, serious, realistic, light and entertaining style.

[RenataHom]

Music of the Heart 1999

Story of a schoolteachers struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.

Music of the Heart features sentimental, touching, serious, uplifting and realistic style.

[liam]

Dance Academy 2010

At Sydneys National Dance Academy a few talented youngsters are recruited for the excruciatingly tough course. It follows Tara Webster a sheepfarmgirl whos ambition is to be the next best ballerina. Jewish long line of doctors ...

Dance Academy features sentimental, realistic, serious and captivating

[Kennethzef]

August Rush 2007

A drama with fairy tale elements where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.

August Rush features touching, sentimental, inspirational, romantic and sad style.

[discussadmin]

October Sky 1999

Based on the true story of Homer Hickam a coal miners son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his fathers wishes and eventually became a NASA scientist.

October Sky features realistic, inspirational, touching, sentimental and uplifting style.

[janice]

Fame 1980

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

Fame features realistic, sincere, captivating, serious and inspirational style.

[meiramadhani]

My Life in Pink 1997

Ludovic is a small boy who cross-dresses and generally acts like a girl talks of marrying his neighbors son and can not understand why everyone is so surprised about it. His actions lead to problems for him and his family.

My Life in Pink features touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous and offbeat style.

[acone]

Footloose 1984

When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West hes in for a real case of culture shock.

Footloose features teen, cult classic, serious, captivating and colorful style.

[ruby]

Kinky Boots 2005

Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton in central England but he never thought that he would take his fathers place. Yet the untimely death of his father places him in that position only ...

Kinky Boots features touching, humorous, inspirational, feel good and sweet style.

[violet]

Boyhood 2014

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18 and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

Boyhood features melancholic, independent film, depressing, serious and realistic style.

[kylie]

Slumdog Millionaire 2008

Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire but after he wins he is suspected of cheating.

Slumdog Millionaire features touching, uplifting, realistic, motivational and feel good style.

[Gaulttep]

Once 2007

A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant who earns a living selling flowers approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to ...

Once features sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational and independent film style.

[KennethRap]

Liam 2000

A morality tale of xenophobia religious prejudice mob violence poverty and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes Liam and Teresas dad loses his job. Liam whos about 8 making his ...

Liam features touching, bleak, emotional, sincere and depressing style.