Belly dance

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows belly dance

poster Dance of Ouled Nail
Dance of Ouled Nail
2mn - Documentary
A short film featuring several dancers from different countries: first an Arabian dancer, then an Algerian belly dancer, and finally Scottish highlanders in kilts performing a jig. Section one is rendered…
poster Die Serpentintänzerin
Die Serpentintänzerin
1mn - Documentary
A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
poster Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
(3.0/5)
1mn - Documentary
Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest a butterfly. As she dances, she uses her long, flowing…
poster Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Annabelle Serpentine Dance
(3.3/5)
1mn - Documentary
In a long, diaphanous skirt, held out by her hands with arms extended, Broadway dancer Annabelle Moore performs. Her dance emphasizes the movement of the flowing cloth. She moves to her right and left acr…
poster Danse indienne
Danse indienne
1mn - Documentary
American Indians dancing.
poster Loïe Fuller
Loïe Fuller
(2.7/5)
2mn - Fantasy, Documentary
This is another short, simple dance number. It’s quite stunning and unusual though with a bat turning into a woman who proceeds to give us a skirt dance before disappearing into thin air. The dance is mes…
poster Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
4mn - Fantasy
In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the direction of a violinist (Linder). They begin a minuet and their costumes change in a sudden. A man ente…
poster The Polish Dancer
The Polish Dancer
(3.0/5)
62mn - Drama, Romance
A wild young girl runs away from her parents' house to support herself and attracts the attentions of a married man, who is prepared to abandon his wife and child for her.
poster Kamarinskaja
Kamarinskaja
1mn - Documentary
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
poster The Ballet Master's Dream
The Ballet Master's Dream
2mn - Comedy, Fantasy
It's late in the evening, and the ballet master's bed has been prepared for him. But he cannot take his mind off of his work, and instead of going to sleep he paces the floor and tries out dance steps. Fi…
poster Italienischer Bauerntanz
Italienischer Bauerntanz
1mn - Documentary
Two children, Ploetz and Larella, perform an Italian peasant dance.
poster Danse Tyrolienne
Danse Tyrolienne
1mn - Documentary
A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.
poster The Microscopic Dancer
The Microscopic Dancer
2mn - Fantasy, Comedy
“This is an absolutely new and extraordinary subject. A juggler takes in succession about a dozen eggs out of his servant's mouth. He breaks all the eggs into a hat, and after having beaten them up after …
poster The Infernal Cakewalk
The Infernal Cakewalk
6mn - Fantasy, Comedy, Music
Pluto, having seen the earth, comes back home amazed at the success of that well-known dance, the "cake-walk." He has brought back with him two noted well-known dancers, who start their favorite dance ami…
poster Chaise en bascule
Chaise en bascule
1mn - Comedy
Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.
poster The Dancing Pig
The Dancing Pig
4mn - Comedy
A pig dressed in fancy clothes flirts with a pretty girl, but she humiliates him and tears off his suit; she then makes him dance for her affections.
poster Ringkämpfer
Ringkämpfer
1mn - Documentary
Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.
poster Tango Tangles
Tango Tangles
(2.6/5)
10mn - Comedy
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
poster Danse macabre
Danse macabre
8mn - Drama, Horror, Music
The Black Death is ravaging Spain. As Camille Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" plays on the soundtrack, a mix of animation and acted scenes tells the story of Youth and Love meeting one night. They dance, em…
poster A Burlesque on Carmen
A Burlesque on Carmen
(3/5)
31mn - Comedy
A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
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