Sultry Belly Dancer / Live-Action Films

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• Ajnabee: In one of the songs Sonia dresses up as one as she belly dances in front of Raj, attempting to seduce him.
• A rare male example in the film Alexander; Bagoas, the Persian dancer who performs for Alex at one of the big banquets. (He was real, and so was that hot & steamy make-out session he has with Alex later in the film.)
• Bernard and Doris: After their trip from Sri Lanka, Doris takes a private moment with Bernard to explain the "inner meaning" of belly dance and sensuality, which possibly marks the first step of Doris trying to seduce Bernard for her own.
• From the British Carry On film series:
  • Carry On Cruising: During the cruise's stop over at North Africa, Gladys and Flo end up purchasing belly dancer costumes as souvenirs and take a picture together, cosplaying as "harem girls of the Sultan".
  • Carry On Follow That Camel: Bo, Simpson and Knocker join together to enjoy a night at the Cafe ZigZig, where CorkTip, the local belly dancer, seduces Bo and Knocker into being captured by CorkTip's master, the Sheik Abulbul.
• In Charlie Wilson's War the congressman's girlfriend does a belly dance for some Egyptian bigwigs, one of whom comments that it doesn't resemble any belly dance he's ever seen (there are some definite pole-dancing moves).
• In Countess Dracula, a belly dancer from the circus performs in the tavern in an act of pure Fanservice.
• Dangerous Men: Before he is found by the police, Black Pepper and his mistress are entertained by a belly dancer before setting up for a session of making love.
• Around the beginning of Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans, a topless dancer is shown inside a tavern, who continues to dance even when the tavern's occupants break out in a brawl.
• The "Can You Dig It?" sequence in The Monkees' film Head takes place in a harem full of belly dancers.
• In the 1976 Italian film Inhibitions, Carol and Anna finish a round of making love to each other before attending a Middle Eastern restaurant with a dancer performing.
• The Invincible Six: One night, in the village that the six main leads are trying to protect, Zara performs a dance in the local bar, to the delight of Giorgio despite his drunkenness.
• Several in the James Bond films:
  • From Russia with Love: There's one in the opening credits on the belly of which the credits are projected, and another at the gypsy camp who gets quite close to Bond when dancing.
  • Octopussy: Octopussy's gang uses a few belly dancers (including Magda) to distract Kamal Khan's guards at the Moonsoon Palace to infiltrate it, leading to the Final Battle.
• Killjoy 3: Once Sandy enters Killjoy's world, he forces her into a belly dancer's costume he conjured up with magic and has her dance for him. Sandy uses the opportunity to distract Killjoy and make Batty Boop envious.
• Some dancers perform for a brief period inside Jonathan's Egyptian-inspired nightclub in The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
• Muttertag: A couple of the Austrian housewives hold a private dance session for their exercise regimen, which somehow escalates into a photo shoot shortly after.
• No Way Out (1987). Government agents are going through a list of every gift that's been received from foreign governments. One of the gifts listed is a dancing girl, with a note that this particular 'gift' was refused.
• Paradise: In the beginning of the film, David goes out to fetch some water and overhears music and cheering nearby. He goes to investigate and is treated to the movements of a flirtatious dancer.
• The Promise: Early in the movie, the protagonists watch a Turkish dancer perform in a club. She also invites Ana, an Armenian ballerina, to perform alongside her and they do it pretty well.
• The 1969 Chinese thriller Raw Passions begins with a nightclub act, where the lead singer performs a number that quickly transforms into a belly dance performance once the singer discards her shawl.
• There was a six-breasted alien in Jabba's palace who appeared to be a bellydancer in Return of the Jedi. In Tales from Jabba's Palace, we learn that she is actually 'fat dancer', a kind of performance that the Hutts prefer. She was selected for his performance because her species have fat cells that work like a sponge, allowing her to appear much, much fatter by absorbing water. This ability, plus the fake warts she is forced to wear, allow her to look like Jabba's mom.
• Sabah is a 2005 indie film about the titular character, who is a 40-year-old single Syrian immigrant living in Toronto, and her romantic adventure with a non-Muslim. When she finds interest with a Canadian man, she has her niece teach her how to dance in order to seduce her new lover. The next time Sabah meets with her lover, she dances (wearing regular clothes and not a bedlah) and it works, leading to a passionate night between the two.
• In the Tunisian movie Satin Rouge, widowed Hiam Abbass lands in a cabaret (a raunchy, male only cafe featuring belly dancers) when she wants to confront her teenage daughters lover, who works there as a musician. She ends up dancing herself.
• In The Secret of the Grain (original title La Graine et le Mulet) by Abdellatif Kechiche, the stepdaughter of an Arab restaurant owner, upon finding that the main course can't be served on time at the opening night, begins an improvised belly dance that has the entire audience transfixed. It provides the movie with its climax.
• The opening scene of the 1965 film adaptation of She finds Leo, Holly, and Job in a Cairo bar taking in some belly dancers. One of the dancers apparently decided to up the Fanservice factor by going with pasties over her nipples rather than any kind of bra.
• The leading female in Slumdog Millionaire wears a very beautiful midriff-baring outfit, complete with big amounts of jewellery while she's about to be rented for the first time (the dance was part of the advertisement) when the lead finds her again after being separated from her.
• The 1983 Disney adaptation of Something Wicked This Way Comes had a troupe of belly dancers performing inside a tent as one of the attractions in a carnival.
• Ten Violent Women: By the end of the film, the fate of two of the team of thieves is as follows: to be separated from the rest of the group, drowning in debt and no jewels, only to be offered a chance aboard a sultan's yacht as the new belly dancers in his harem. Seeing no other way out, the women take up the offer.
• In the 1964 heist film Topkapi, Walter and his group of thieves pass off as tourists and attend a Turkish sporting event while trying to steer clear of the Turkish police who are spying on them. Walter pretends to take photographs of the sporting event and the surrounding goings-on around the stadium; he notices a belly dancer mid-performance and takes photos of her, quickly leaving just in time for the sneaking Turkish officer to be humiliated by the dancer by being tripped by her veil.
• Theatre of Death: The cut from the theatre to the party in Davras' home opens with a close up of the navel of a belly dancer who is performing.
• A thoroughly anachronistic belly dancer, wearing an even more anachronistic fringed bikini, acts as entertainment (and Fanservice) in Lee Chung's cafe in The Terror of the Tongs.
• One appears at Ludicrus Sextus' orgy in Up Pompeii.
• Where the Spies Are (1965). In Lebanon the amateur spy played by David Niven watches a belly dance while listening to his veteran agent partner grumble about how he's met "more randy girls back in England than in the mysterious bloody East." Niven does get involved with the belly dancer though, who also turns out to be a spy.
• In Wholly Moses!, featuring Dudley Moore, the city of New Sodom is filled with many a dancer, looking to partake in temptation with whomever they can seduce.
• Parodied hilariously in Wild Wild West, after Kevin Kline has been captured by the big bad, Will Smith shows up to rescue him, dressed as a belly dancer. It's hilarious. Especially when his pasties turn out to be flame throwers.

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