This is a list of fictional films in which tango is a major theme or persistent presence. I am aware that it is incomplete: viewing and adding titles is an ongoing project. It goes from the ones I saw earliest (as best as I can recall) to the most recently. In "detail view," you can read my comments. Some I haven't watched yet are at the bottom. See also my lists of Tango Documentaries (e.g., "Our Last Tango) and Hera and There (non-tango films with a tango scene or element, e.g., "Scent of a Woman"). What film goes on what list is, needless to say, debatable.

See also my lists "Narrative Tango Films" and "Tango Scenes." My (usually brief) comments may be read under "detail view." The order of this list is not a ranking.

A list in progress of films with a tango element, dance, music, or song, that may be dramatically important (or not) but doesn't make the full movie a "tango film." The dance styles are all over the place and sometimes promiscuously mixed... Argentine, ballroom, international, americano, interpretive. The order isn't a ranking. My notes can be read under "detail view." See also my lists of "Narrative Tango Films" and "Tango Documentaries."

Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot (1959)

I made this list in 2018 in an effort to get a "Facebook challenge" going—"Christmas movies" being a thing, I expected takers, instead I had kind and avid followers. It's an offbeat selection from a basically secular partaker in the holiday. Some of the entries appear on other "alternative" lists, but not many. It's intriguing that the French make a lot of Christmas movies (more could have been listed).

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