Tango is eternal movie theme in addition to love and always adds to popularization of Tango. We collected some of the most famous and legendary movie scenes from the different periods, but we also added some movies to list that wouldn't be perfect without them.

It is rather interesting that song "Por Una Cabeza" is played in many of those scenes.

The four horseman of the Apocalypse (1921)

director: Rex Ingram, Kevin Brownlow
cast: Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Bridgetta Clark, Rudolph Valentino
This is already cult movie that we all have heart for, but most of us haven't seen it. This movie is the one of the first that boosted Tango popularity...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012190/

Rudolph Valentino dances Tango on La Cumparsita in movie The four horseman of the Apocalypse (1921)

Tango Bar (1935)

director: John Reinhardt
cast: Carlos Gardel, Rosita Moreno
It was said that Carlos Gardel was a sex symbol in his times. A symbol that was later copied in many American movies...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027077/

Adiós Buenos Aires (1938)

director: Leopoldo Torres Ríos
cast: Tito Lusiardo, Amelia Bence

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201414/

Zadnji tango v Parizu (Ultimo tango a Parigi - 1972)

director: Bernardo Bertolucci
cast: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider
It is a must to see this legendary movie...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100222/

Last Tango in Paris

Never Say Never Again (1983)

director: Irvin Kershner
cast: Sean Connery, Kim Basinger
The real man is usually also a perfect (Tango) dancer. This theory was proved by the only real 007...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086006/

Sean Connery and Kim Basinger

Tango Bar (1988)

director: Marcos Zurinaga
cast: Raul Julia, Valeria Lynch

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096221/

Naked Tango (1990)

director: Leonard Schrader
cast: Vincent D'Onofrio, Mathilda May
It was not long ago that this movie could be bought from Amazon (VHS). Movie shows us lots of nakedness scenes, Argentinian beef...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100222/

Scent Of A Woman (1992)

director: Martin Brest
cast: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell
Dancers from younger generation of dancers first saw Tango in this movie. It is a kind of Tango that has many similarities with Tango that we dance in Milongas...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105323/

Al Pacino - Scent Of A Woman

True Lies (1994)

director: James Cameron
cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis
No comment ;-)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111503/

Arnold proves, that anyone can dance Tango

Evita (1996)

director: Alan Parker
cast: Madonna, Antonio Banderas
One of the Tango bases is the communication. Madona and Antonio are proving the opposite...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116250/

Madonna & Antonio Tango...

The Tango Lesson (1997)

director: Sally Potter
cast: Sally Potter, Pablo Veron
One of those movies with lots of great Tango Nuevo shots. Movie shows a quite common story when a person becomes a Tango addict...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120275/

Pablo Veron and Sally Potter

Tango (1998)

director: Carlos Saura
cast: Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecilia Narova...
Movie about making a show with Tango that shows a story about Tango culture and shows us also a glimpse of Argentinian dark revolutionary history...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120274/

Tango - Larroca

Moulin Rouge (2001)

director: Baz Luhrmann
cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203009/

El Tango De Roxanne - Moulin Rouge

Chicago (2002)

director: Rob Marshall
cast: Taye Diggs
One of eternal Broadway shows that you can still see on Broadway if only you'd buy tickets soon enough (we recommend to see the show) and was brought on movie in 2002.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299658/

Cell Block Tango from "Chicago"

Frida (2002)

director: Julie Taymor
cast: Salma Hayek
We still remember famous Frida Calo Tango dance that turned man heads...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120679/

Frida Callo dances Tango

Assassination Tango (2002)

director: Robert Duvall
cast: Robert Duvall...
Robert Duvall is a Tango dancer in reality. In movie travels in Buenos Aires as a hit man where he meets Tango as he waits for his target...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283897/

Pablo Veron

Shall We Dance (2004)

director: Peter Chelsom
cast: Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez
It is more about Ballroom dance, but there is also a Tango...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358135/

Shall We Dance

12 Tangos - Adios Buenos Aires (2005)

director: Arne Birkenstock
cast: Roberto Tonet, Marcela Maiola
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459733/

El último bandoneón (2005)

director: Alejandro Saderman
cast: Marina Gayotto
I have to see this one...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414712/

Javier Rodriguez y Geraldine Rojas - El Ultimo Bandoneon

Take The Lead (2006)

director: Liz Friedlander
cast: Antonio Banderas
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446046/

Take The Lead (tango scene)

Orquesta tipica (2006)

director: Nicolas Entel
cast: Fernando Anon, Daniel Binelli
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0846722/

Easy Virtue (2008)

director: Stephan Elliott
cast: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes
I was realy not impresed by this one. There is a scene where a lead actress trys to "save her skin" by dancing Tango....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808244/

Easy Virtue (tango scene)