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Best Random Dance Sequence In a Film That Isn't a Musical or About Dancing In Particular

Links to watch each dance in notes!

This is a list of mostly unmotivated or surprising dance sequences or scenes in films where dancing is fairly out of context.

Open to suggestions :)

Sister list:
Best Random Singing Performance In a Film That Isn’t a Musical or About Singing In Particular

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There are 124 films in this list available on Apple TV US.

  • American Beauty
  • Shaolin Soccer
  • La Haine
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
  • Kajillionaire
  • Burning
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
  • Twins
  • The Artifice Girl
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • Ocean's Twelve
  • Poor Things
  • Adventures in Babysitting
  • The Hudsucker Proxy
  • Adore
  • Pride
  • A Bigger Splash
  • Pretty in Pink
  • Obvious Child
  • Lost River
  • The Fastest Gun Alive
  • Jojo Rabbit
  • From Dusk Till Dawn
  • King of New York
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • American Hustle
  • Kinds of Kindness
  • The Fearless Vampire Killers
  • Psycho Beach Party
  • Falcon Lake
  • Foxtrot
  • Monsieur Lazhar
  • Zatoichi
  • The Mountain
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • Demolition
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Reality Bites
  • The Favourite
  • The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
  • The Lobster
  • Kickboxer
  • Love Actually
  • Lamb
  • Mayday
  • Charlie's Angels
  • Tropic Thunder
  • High Fidelity
  • Aftersun
  • Pulp Fiction
  • Dan in Real Life
  • The Transformers: The Movie
  • Call Me by Your Name
  • Titane
  • Permanent Vacation
  • Reservoir Dogs
  • Nights of Cabiria
  • The Breakfast Club
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Another Round
  • Beau Travail
  • Pee-wee's Big Adventure
  • Malcolm X
  • Southland Tales
  • My Salinger Year
  • Troll 2
  • Inland Empire
  • Mother
  • Spider-Man 3
  • Buffalo '66
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • All the Real Girls
  • The Bishop's Wife
  • Big
  • The Adults
  • The Shape of Water
  • Ex Machina
  • Simple Men
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Werckmeister Harmonies
  • Return to Seoul
  • Chungking Express
  • Police Story
  • Teen Wolf
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  • Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
  • Rodeo
  • Queer
  • Kung Fu Yoga
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • The Big Lebowski
  • BlacKkKlansman
  • Robot Dreams
  • Beetlejuice
  • Holy Motors
  • Death Proof
  • The Gold Rush
  • Legend
  • (500) Days of Summer