With elements of “Black Swan,” “Suspiria” and even “Flashdance,” Amazon’s “Birds of Paradise” tells the story of two young American ballet dancers at a prestigious academy in Paris involved in a ...

Magnetic leads Diana Silvers and Kristine Froseth have alluring chemistry as competing and secretive ballerinas in Sarah Adina Smith’s refreshingly grown-up genre entry. If close female friendships ...

Films that portray the brutality behind the beauty of ballet have become a subgenre unto their own. From The Archers’ romantic and tragic melodrama “The Red Shoes,” to Dario Argento’s gleefully witchy ...