Billy Elliot
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… From TMDB
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60 of 113 · most liked first8-year-old who has a friend over: "Dad! Lorenzo has watched an R-rated movie! Can I watch it too?" Me, bracing myself: "Uh, maybe. Which movie is it?" 8yo: "Billy Elliot!"
unlabelledView post →Only quarter of a century late to finally watching BILLY ELLIOT. Absolutely magical film & made me feel so good, which is what I wanted tonight. Cracking T REX Score & loved the way it threaded the miners strike into its narrative
unlabelledView post →And still every day I ask WHERE is Tom Holland’s movie musical? Let the boy from Billy Elliot DANCE!!
unlabelledView post →Argent Street in the former mining village of Easington Colliery, Co Durham in North East England. A number of locations in the village were used as locations for 'Billy Elliot', the British coming-of-age film starring Jamie Bell. #england #durham #billyelliot #film #monochrome #photography
unlabelledView post →Anyway today out of nowhere I remembered that the movie Billy Elliot exists so I’m watching it tomorrow
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching BILLY ELLIOT (2000). Director: Stephen Daldry. Jamie Bell, Julie Walters. Before Elton John made the musical that discovered Tom Holland, Jamie Bell originated role of troubled working-class boy who unexpectedly finds purpose in dance. Rewatch. #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →Billy Elliot is still outstanding. This is the type of film I love.
unlabelledView post →Happy Birthday JAMIE BELL! 🎂 Talented British actor and dancer who made a splash with BILLY ELLIOT, winning a BAFTA, and has continued to impress alongside co-stars like JULIE WALTERS and ANNETTE BENING in FILM STARS DON'T DIE IN LIVERPOOL. #MovieSky
unlabelledView post →Movies released on September 29: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Avalanche (1978) Death on the Nile (1978) River of Death (1989) Billy Elliot (2000) Remember the Titans (2000) Serenity (2005) No Time to Die (2021) MST3K: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9AZ... #movies 🎬 #anniversary #MST3K
unlabelledView post →After over 20 years, yesterday evening I watched Billy Elliot once again—I still like the film, the soundtrack, and I still find the end is a little too sloppy… but I’m positive about that film, despite my different perspective about dancing, as you can see below. #gay #nsfw #twink #illustration
unlabelledView post →#NewWaveNovember Absolutely love The Jam, they'll probably make a few appearances throughout the month haha. This song has been featured in a few pieces of media throughout the years, but my favorite is the movie Billy Elliot!
unlabelledView post →#MatthewsMonthofMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 9: Music from a movie or would be perfect for a movie, or a song based on a movie or that should be made into a movie Town Called Malice by the Jam used in the movie Billy Elliot
unlabelledView post →#MarchMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky Day 26: Protest demonstration in a movie Billy Elliot
unlabelledView post →#NovemberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky Day~ 27 Ballet in a movie 🎬 Billy Elliot (2000)
unlabelledView post →Tonight while putting together this puzzle I learned that my sister has never seen the movie Billy Elliot and didn’t even know there was a musical version. I HAVE FAILED HER.
unlabelledView post →listening to this episode, slowly coming to the realization that there were two distinct movies, one called Billy Elliot and one called Billy Madison, and they were not actually the same film
unlabelledView post →Twn films to get to know me (no particular order) - Titan: AE - Star Wars: Episode I - Good will hunting - Digimon: The Movie - Tron: Legacy - The Wind Rises - The Banshees of Inisherin - Interstellar - Billy Elliot - Atlantis
unlabelledView post →I did this as a kid. We were going on vacation and my parents took us to blockbuster to pick a movie to watch in the van My friends all raved about this Adam Sandler movie where he goes back to school. 30 minutes into watching Billy Elliot, I was wondering when Adam Sandler was going to show up
unlabelledView post →#bales2025moviechallenge - an artistic child Billy Elliot (2000) Each re-watch this film becomes more perfect to me. I’ve never seen the “underdog prevails despite all odds” done better. It’s Rocky-esque, but better than Rocky. 10/10⭐️
unlabelledView post →Billy Elliot I think I've misunderstood what you mean by "dad movie" but this is the movie with my favorite dad.
unlabelledView post →#JuneMovieChallenge @omacolt.bsky.social Jun 25 A movie about an underdog Billy Elliot (2000) A working-class boy in a coal-mining town secretly takes ballet lessons, defying family and cultural expectations.
unlabelledView post →#SportsMovieMadness (7) Movie featuring combat sport (boxing) 🥊 Billy Elliot
unlabelledView post →Tonight, watched the movie Billy Elliot. Had seen clips on YouTube, and finally ordered the DVD. I know this is a movie from 2000, but I had never seen it. Dreams realized and dreams unrealized moved me. For some reason breaking up the piano for firewood hit me the hardest. Cried a bit. 😥
unlabelledView post →Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 — Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb One movie 🎥 — Billy Elliot One album 💿 — NGDA by Taemin One TV show 📺 — Doctor Who
unlabelledView post →April 29. Foreign Language film? Billy Elliot - 2000 A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family. Without subtitles, I had no idea what they were saying. #AprilFilmChallenge
unlabelledView post →Lista osobista najukochańszych filmów. 10 dni - 10 filmów. 🎬 Miejsce 10. "Billy Elliot" to film niezwykły. Wzruszająca historia chłopca, który wbrew powszechnym stereotypom i trudom dnia codziennego, odkrywa w sobie miłość do tańca i rusza w podróż w świat własnych marzeń.
unlabelledView post →June 28: riot in movie #JuneMovieChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky 🎬 Billy Elliot (2000)
unlabelledView post →THEATER THURSDAY #theaterthursday BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL music by Elton John, book byLee Hall. Based on the film about a coal miner's son who takes ballet lessons.
unlabelledView post →Watched #BillyElliot for #FamilyFilmEvening. It's aged rather well, though possibly a little too nostalgic for the bad old days. Kids have gleefully learned a whole new stable of swearwords and how to use them. Youngest is now going round trying to talk in County Durham accent. A bit of a relief from their endless Americanisms. Would love some suggestions from the fediverse for other family films suitable for tweens/young teens with perhaps slightly challenging subjects...
unlabelledView post →Watched an old favourite of mine, Billy Elliot. I first watched that film at the same age as the main character, when I was 11 or 10, and I kept having to ask my parents questions about the context for a lot of the stuff And now as an adult at 33, I cry my eyes out at so much of it
unlabelledView post →#AGoodPlace did u know Tom Holland of Spiderman, Odyssey fame was a Billy Elliot at age 12. He garnered great accolades for his first movie The Impossible at age 16.
unlabelledView post →#JuneMovieChallenge Day 30 - someone performs or practices ballet in a movie Billy Elliot in Billy Elliot (2000) #filmsky #moviesky ...a talented young boy becomes torn between his love of dance and the disintegration of his family...
unlabelledView post →Went to a double feature movie night of Billy Elliot (2000) and Dames (1934) Billy is an almost perfect film that makes me ugly cry sad and happy tears throughout. Every. Damn. Time. Dames was good, love me some Busby choreo - wasn't ready for the many cut outs of Ruby Keeler’s face though…
unlabelledView post →22 February 1950 – Julie Walters, 76, English actress. Boys from Blackstuff (1983) Educating Rita (West End/film OscarNom) Victoria Wood * Personal Services * Stepping Out * dinnerladies * Billy Elliot (OscarNom) Mama Mia * Harry Potter * Murder * Mo * A Short Stay in Switzerland * Brooklyn (2016)
unlabelledView post →The ultimate feel-good movie? Billy Elliot 💫
unlabelledView post →At the Royal Bah-lay (as said like Billy Elliot). Here for Like Water for Chocolate. A movie I meant to see since it came out but still haven't. Only had like over 30 years?! (I guess I could have also read the originating book). The ballet so far, so gorgeous. #IntermissionPost
unlabelledView post →Happy 25th Anniversary to BILLY ELLIOT, which is the film I reviewed in my first ever published review (for the University of Exeter newspaper)
unlabelledView post →#WomenPhotographers 📸 Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is a Finnish photographer known for her impactful documentary work in North East England, particularly in the Byker community, Newcastle. Her project Step by Step on dance schools inspired Lee Hall’s play Dancer, which later became the film Billy Elliot.
unlabelledView post →#AlphabetMusicals #MusicChallenge @philipcarman.bsky.social Day 5: "Expressing Yourself" (original cast of BILLY ELLIOT, 2005). Written by Sir Elton John and Lee Hall (the latter screenwriter of the 2000 source film), vocals led by Liam Mower and Brad Kavanagh. youtu.be/LIBe0u2_3_o
unlabelledView post →You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? Billy Elliot (2000) Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
unlabelledView post →In a similar vein, last night we watched “Bank of Dave” (Netflix 2023). Sort of a mix of “Billy Elliot” and the Hugh Grant film “The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but came down a Mountain”. It hit the spot.
unlabelledView post →Yes, horrid Thatcher's Breadline Britain. They let the movie Billy Elliot which took place during the Miner's Strike use London Calling in the soundtrack. #paws4music
unlabelledView post →‘Lets me believe in myself’: why Billy Elliot is my feelgood movie www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju... @bertrom.bsky.social @hollanddaaze.bsky.social @robklippel.bsky.social @george-1788pow.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →It was this logic that once grouped BILLY ELLIOT into a trivia round on “90s movies,” costing my team the round, because we knew the answer could never been BILLY ELLIOT, a movie that did not come out in the 90s, and I’ve never been angrier at a trivia round in my life.
unlabelledView post →December movie day 11: Billy Elliot Instead of boxing, the 11y old Billy become interested in ballet. His father, a coal miner, is not happy that his son has chosen such a girly activity. But Billy can't stop dancing.
unlabelledView post →This is an attempt at a list of the greats, not favourites which is different. Billy Elliot - genius original production was better than the film - may be the best musical with the worst score. Oliver has a tremendous score and a very threadbare book. Floyd Collins is superb. May add to my list.
unlabelledView post →That’s the plot of hit film (and musical, stage recording davon hittet imo even harder als der film) Billy Elliot right there 😂
unlabelledView post →Every time I hear ‘Town Called Malice, it takes me back to that magnificent Billy Elliot film. #totp
unlabelledView post →22 February 1950 – Julie Walters, 75, English actress With Victoria Wood (1981-2000) Boys from the Black Stuff (1983) * Educating Rita (Stage + film OscarNom) Personal Services * Billy Elliot (OscarNom) Harry Potter * Mamma Mia! * Mo * Brooklyn * Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool * Wild Rose (2019)
unlabelledView post →Before seeing Billy Elliot, which became a life-long favorite movie, I already loved A Town Called Malice. Now I love it even more since it forever invokes that great movie. R.I.P. Rick Buckler, drummer of The Jam. www.avclub.com/rick-buckler...
unlabelledView post →For me the movie Billy Elliot is basically "Let's see what the rest of Charlie Brown's teacher's family is up to, oh look, they're all miners and ballet dancers" because I literally did not understand a goddamn word anyone said.
unlabelledView post →The BFI has a list of films to see before you're 15 which might be worth exploring - something like Billy Elliot, about a slightly timid 11yo learning to be less timid, more ght be appropriate? Definitely indy Jones ahead of Star wars www.bfi.org.uk/lists/50-fil...
unlabelledView post →It's always fun to see Billy Elliot in a movie.
unlabelledView post →Someone on my t/l mentioned the Billy Elliot film, and i had a massive flash to my boy Adam appearing at the end, and the loud meep i let out when i saw him. (i had no idea he was in the film) (no, *y’all* watched Swan Lake [REDACTED] times)
unlabelledView post →The one actor played Billy Elliot in that movie when he was a child.
unlabelledView post →Some people seem surprised that Tom Holland can dance. He created the part of Billy Elliot the Musical — of course he can dance! [No disrespect to Jamie Bell who created the role in the original film — he was also fabulous.] Thanks for posting — I love, love, love to see men who dance!
unlabelledView post →In the pantheon of great child performances, Jamie Bell as Billy Elliot has to be in anybody’s Top 10. But there’s so much more to it that just a boy who wants to dance.
unlabelledView post →Rewatched Billy Elliot this morning. Just love this movie - hard to believe it's been more than 25 yrs. #movies www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeXq...
unlabelledView post →Another anniversary story I went nuts over was Billy Elliot – shoutout to my North-East interviewees who brought this to life, and keep the film's legacy so fucking special: boxd.it/2JA
unlabelledView post →Billy Elliot was fun. I also like an ice skating movie called "The Cutting Edge."
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