History SultryBellyDancer / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/{{Muttertag}}'': A couple of the Austrian housewives hold a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-1GL6VIiA8 private]] dance session for their exercise regimen, which somehow escalates into a photo shoot shortly after.

* ''Film/Aladdin2019'': Like in the animated film, the Genie conjures up belly dancers for his musical numbers in the live-action remake too.

** A more traditional female example was Roxana's dance.
* ''Film/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays2004'', starring Creator/{{Jackie Chan}} and Creator/{{Steve Coogan}}, had a scene where Phileas Fogg, his assistant Jean Passepartout (played by Coogan and Jackie Chan respectively) and Monique were invited by a Turkish prince (played by the one and only Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) into his palace. Fogg's group entered the palace and were met with dancers who performed to the prince's music from his oud.
* The 2011 documentary ''At Night, They Dance'' (original title: ''La nuit, elles dansent'') [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5gSMLcUJWc shows]] the lives of a family of belly dancers led by a widow living in Cairo, Egypt.
%% * ''Beau Geste (1966)'':

* The 1966 Italian eurospy film ''Bob Fleming...Mission Casablanca'' (also released as ''Killers Are Challenged'', original title being ''A 077, sfida ai killers'') had a belly dancer twirl around for a few moments before grooving out to rock music with the attendees in the club she performed in.
* ''Film/CannonballRun 2''. Scariest belly dancers ever.

** ''Film/CarryOnColumbus'': When the Sultan of Turkey summons Fatima to his presence, she enters the main hall performing a quick dance, charming the Sultan before being handed her mission to stop Columbus from discovering the Indies.

* Used as part of a disguise/infiltration ploy in the first ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'' film.

** TruthInTelevision: Egypt is one of the major traditional centers of belly dancing (see the main page), so the minister knew what he was talking about. Though the real woman also had a sword that made the bodyguards very nervous.
** The actress that played the belly dancer is Tracy Phillips, the daughter of the coach of the Dallas Cowboys, providing ''another'' tie between real-world Texas and the movie.
* In the credits scene of ''Film/TheComebacks'', the team's star kicker, Jizminder Featherfoot, is shown to belly dance as a possible part of her exercise regimen. The scene would be considered out of place, had it not been for the film identifying itself as a sports film parody.
* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' featured a dancer in a tavern, shortly after Conan (played by Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) slayed a huge snake.

* One appears at the club where King, Annette and Bray enjoy their dinner in ''Film/TheCurseOfTheMummysTomb''.

* The 2001 Turkish film ''Dansoz'' shows the daily life of a dancer and actually explores the social/cultural aspect of belly dancing in countries like Turkey, where belly dancing is not seen as simply an exotic art as much as it is really a rather huge social convention; in parties shown throughout the film, both men and women typically participate along with dancers in merriment.
* One dancer is shown in ''Film/DaysOfWineAndRoses''.
* in ''Film/DeathShip'', Lori is dressed as a belly dancer on a cruiser.

* The 1953 fantasy horror film ''Dracula in Istanbul'' (''Drakula Istanbul'da'' in Turkish) features a [[https://youtu.be/4R6PW2qccPU?t=55m26s dancer]] as a nightclub act.
* One shows up in a really trippy sequence apparently involving drugged apples in the 1965 British comedy film ''The Early Bird''.
* ''Film/TheFlightOfThePhoenix1965'' has a scene where a character dying of thirst hallucinates a belly dancer in the desert. It's all very trippy.
* ''Film/GoodbyeLenin'': Alex walks in on his sister Ariane dancing in their living room one night, while Ariane's current boyfriend humorously joins in on the exercise, flailing his arms around to the beat.
* ''The Great American Beauty Contest'': In this 1973 satirical film, Farrah Fawcett's character performs a [[https://youtu.be/xQkkNqwdfAI?t=41m56s belly dance]] as her talent for the beauty contest.
%% * ''The Great Magician (2011)'':

* Music/TheBeatles entered an Indian restaurant in their film ''Film/{{Help}}'', where a dancer was performing before she was taken away by members of a suspicious cult.
%% * ''History of the World, Part I'':
* ''Film/TheHitman'', featuring ''Creator/ChuckNorris'', had one show up briefly right before Norris does what he does best: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin kicking butt and taking names]].
* In the Main/{{Nazisploitation}} film ''[[Film/IlsaSheWolfOfTheSS Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks]]'', some of the servants of El Sharif perform whenever he has guests over in his palace. One of the belly dancers, however, turns out to be an American spy using her belly gem as a recording device, which is later discovered and dooms the spy to torture and eventually death.

** ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': Beirut-based belly dancer Saida was the lover of one of Scaramanga's victims, and after he died she started wearing the exploded golden bullet used to kill him in her navel when she performed. Bond needed the bullet as evidence and... well, suffice to say, getting it from her wasn't easy.

%%** Also in ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967''
* The 1965 Cold War spoof ''John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!'' is chockful of dancers, all who perform for the deranged Sultan of Fawzia. Creator/ShirleyMacLaine and Creator/NaiBonet were two of the dancers in this film.
* The 2012 film ''Film/JustLikeAWoman'' had its two female protagonists drive across the country, performing as belly dancers in bars and nightclubs, while running away from a possible murder charge and a failing marriage.
* One of the shadow puppets from ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace''.

* The [[WackyFratboyHijinx incredibly raunchy film]] ''King Frat'' has a dancer perform in the frat party that occurs after the main event of the film...[[{{Gasshole}} a farting contest]].
%% * ''Legacy of Rage'':
* Adrienne Canterna in ''Life with Mikey''.
* Rhonda Flemming in the movie ''Little Egypt''.
%% * ''The Kidnapping of the Maidens'' (original title: ''Rapirea fecioarelor'')
* Several dancers are shown inside the Blue Fez restaurant in ''The Man with Bogart's Face.''
%% * ''Marlowe (1969)''

%% * ''Film/MurdersInTheRueMorgue'':

* One of the leads of the investigation of the main case is shown to be dancing in ''Film/TheNightStrangler''.

%% * ''Not Wanted on Voyage (1957)''

%% * ''Psychopathic Sexualis'':

** Moving ''[[TooMuchInformation right along]]'', Jabba's also got some more traditional examples in the human and twi'lek dancers. Although he seems to prefer feeding them to giant monsters.
** [[GoGoEnslavement Slave]] [[Franchise/StarWars Leia]] anyone?

* If a {{Sinbad}} movie does not feature one of these, be very surprised.
** Jane Seymour in the 1977 ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' was dressed like this.
%% * ''Sisters (2001)'':

%% * ''Some Kind Of A Nut (1969)'':

* In ''Film/TheSonOfTheSheik'', this is Yasmin's job with her traveling vaudeville troupe. Unbeknownst to her, the rest of the troupe has a profitable side business in kidnapping and robbery.

%% * ''Up To His Neck (1954)'':
* One appears at Ludicrus Sextus' orgy in ''Film/UpPompeii''.
* ''{{Film/Videodrome}}'': A belly dancer shows up in the restaurant where Masha reveals more about Videodrome to Max.
* In ''Film/WaitingForGuffman'', one is shown to be one of the people auditioning for the main musical of the film.
%% * ''The Witchmaker'':
* Anisa Guzman is even credited as such in ''Wham! Bam! Thank You, Spaceman!''

* One is performing in the Egyptian tavern Holmes and Watson visit when seeking information on Rame-Tep in ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes''.

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* One is performing in the Egyptian tavern Holmes and Watson visit when seeking information on Rame-Tep in ''Film/YoungsherlockHolmes''.

** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'': There's one under the opening credits and another at the gypsy camp. She gets quite close to Bond when dancing.
** ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': Beirut-based belly dancer Saida was the lover of one of Scaramanga's victims, and after he died, she started wearing the exploded golden bullet used to kill him in her navel when she performed. Bond needed the bullet as evidence and... Well, suffice to say, getting it from her wasn't easy.

** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'': There's one under the opening credits and another in a dance scene at a gypsy camp.
** ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': [[spoiler: She was the lover of one of the villain's former victims, and after he died, started wearing the golden bullet used to kill him in her navel when she performed. Bond needed the bullet as evidence and... Well, suffice to say, getting it from her wasn't easy.]]
%% ** ''Film/{{Octopussy}}''

* Every. Egyptian. Movie. Ever. And most other Arabic-language ones too, come to think of it. A belly dance and dancer are to Arabic film what TheItemNumber and [[MsFanservice ItemGirl]] are to UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}. Actress/dancer Nemat Mokhtar was particularly famous for performing these.

** Also in ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' which was, err... a [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible movie]] with [[InNameOnly James Bond]] in it.

* Every. Egyptian. Movie. Ever. And most other Arabic-language ones too, come to think of it. A belly dance and dancer are to Arabic film what TheItemNumber and [[MsFanservice ItemGirl]] are to UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}.

* Parodied hilariously in ''Film/WildWildWest'', after Creator/KevinKline has been captured by the big bad, Creator/WillSmith shows up to rescue him, dressed as a belly dancer. It's hilarious. Especially [[spoiler: when his pasties turn out to be flame throwers.]]

* in “Dead Ship (1980)”, Lori is dressed as a belly dancer on a cruiser.