Billy Elliot
Sep 28, 2000 | IMDB 7.6
110 min Watch NowDrama, Comedy, Music
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 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
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IMDB 5.1 | Feb , 2006
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IMDB 5 | Oct , 2007
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IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 2008
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IMDB 4 | Nov , 2014
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IMDB 4.5 | Dec , 2017
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IMDB 5 | Jul , 2005
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IMDB 6.5 | Nov , 1923
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IMDB 6.2 | Jul , 1967
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IMDB 6.2 | Jan , 2001
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IMDB 5.9 | Nov , 1989
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IMDB 6.2 | Jul , 2014
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IMDB 10 | Sep , 1965
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IMDB 5.3 | Jul , 1996
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IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 1998
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IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 2009
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IMDB 5.8 | Feb , 2009
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IMDB 7 | Aug , 1999
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