Dance, by nature, pretty much screams “sex.” This is why it’s OK if you not-so-secretly love any movie with gratuitous dancing and sexing for the sole purpose of watching straight-up eye candy.
Some wise filmmakers caught on to the fact that as long as you put a hot human on a dance floor — preferably with other hot humans and ideally with minimal clothing — then you’ve got cinematic gold. Sometimes you need a plot. Sometimes, you need Magic Mike XXL. We’ve rounded up the raunchiest, hottest, sweatiest, and yes, even sweetest GIFs from dance movie classics throughout the years.
As a disclaimer, I will be completely objectifying women for the purposes of this article. It’s a nice defense mechanism that helps me cope with my own insecurities, but more importantly, it gives you, my wonderful readers, the opportunity to view some very sexy clips. There are quite a few scenes in movies where an actress shows her seductive side, but the five I posted after the jump are, in my opinion, the best of the best. With apologies to Meg Ryan in Body Double, Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls, and Sub-Zero’s personal favorite, Tom Cruise in Risky Business, here are the ten sexiest dance scenes in movies:
