Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)

Plot: At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

Cast: Amanda Schull, Chi Cao, Chengwu Guo, Wen Bin Huang, Joan Chen, Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Jack Thompson, Camilla Vergotis, Madeleine Eastoe

Rating: 6.598 ⭐

Overall: ★★★☆☆ (3,0/5 from 5 votes)

Video Quality: ★★★★☆ (4,0/5 from 3 votes)

Audio Quality: ★★★☆☆ (2,8/5 from 6 votes)