Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot (2000) is a British drama directed by Stephen Daldry that you can watch online on iFILM. An eleven-year-old boy from a County Durham mining town stumbles into a ballet class one afternoon and never looks back. Jamie Bell's debut performance earned him a BAFTA for Best Actor at the age of fourteen — making him the youngest winner in the award's history at the time.

His father Jackie (Gary Lewis) is out on strike with the miners and mortified by his son's new passion. Brother Tony is worse. Only the sharp-tongued Mrs. Wilkinson (Julie Walters) sees something real in Billy's movement — and quietly starts training him for a Royal Ballet School audition in London. The story pulls these two worlds apart and then, slowly, forces them to reckon with each other.

Made by BBC Film and Working Title on a five-million-pound budget, the film grossed over a hundred million dollars worldwide and inspired a West End musical that has run continuously since 2005. Stream Billy Elliot (2000) online on iFILM.