Do good tango movies exist?

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MadamSamba

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DanceMentor started a link about Tango movies, but I'd like to take it further. There are plenty of fabulous dancing movies, but is there such a thing as a fabulous Tango movie?

Now, I adore Tango, but I'm yet to see a Dirty Dancing-calibre movie about Tango. Anyone got any suggestions or rebuttals?
 
What about Simply Ballroom? It has been a long time and I loved the movie. I just can't specifically remember all of the dances involved except for the Paso Doble in the end. I remember it being a fairly good movie as far as dances involved. Many supposively dance movies have very little dancing and a lot of plot...
 
I think it takes a fairly literal interpretation of dance as "the vertical expression of a horizontal desire"! Sounds kind of fun - I wonder if it is shipped in a plain wrapper!!
 
Tango movie

Assassination Tango is a movie that came out in December on DVD. It takes place in Argentina and has great Argentine Tango dancing in it! The story isn't that great though, so a non-dancer probably wouldnt' like it. but it is worth renting just for the tango scenes. Robert Duvall is the main actor in the movie.
 
Welcome, jxntwinkletoes!
Yes, unfortunately, I fell asleep before the part with the dancing came on.
Was the dancing pretty good?
 
The movie, "Tango," that JonD mentioned is pretty good . . . nice dancing. It can get boring.

It stars Juan Carlos Copes as a choregrapher/dancer.
 
One of the Addams Family movies had a great Tango in it. Ok, maybe a couple parts of it were not very realistic, but still pretty good if I remember correctly, however it was several years before I took dance lessons when I saw it. I think it was "Addams Family Values" but I'm not certain. Anyways, there's only 2 or 3 of those movies.
 
Thanks for your responses, guys. I haven't seen Tango Bar, Assasination Tango or Naked Tango, but to be honest the others weren't too crash hot. The dancing was fabulous, but the plots...argh...am going hunting at the video shop tonight...[/i]
 
When I'm not obsessively reading DF, I'm usually obsessively reading www.imdb.com
I highly recommend it for looking up dance movies or any other kind of movies you might like. You can search by keywords and I found tons of movies when I typed in "tango". Not sure though how good any of them are. :)

Christina
 
we should have a movies section

I know I have REALLY enjoyed some dancing movies since getting started with ballroom dancing. I have watched Dirty Dancing and Dance With Me many times in the last few weeks.

I just bought and watched Strictly Ballroom and really enjoyed that movie also.

It would be handy to have a section of links for BRIEF write ups of theatre type movies and maybe another sub section for any streaming video, etc. of dancing out there on the internet.

I'd even be willing to help the forum with this.
 
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