Belligerent Sexual Tension/Film

Examples of Belligerent Sexual Tension in Film include:

Animation

Anya and Dimitri in Anastasia. Lampshaded by Vlad who calls it an unspoken attraction.

The Nostalgia Chick: Yes, animosity. It must be love.

Hiccup and Astrid in Dreamworks's How to Train Your Dragon, mostly on Astrid's part, what with her being the Village's most headstrong Dragon Slayer.
Doctor Doppler and Captain Amelia of Treasure Planet. In the beginning, they fight like cats and dogs, but by the end of the movie, they've developed a fondness for each other and bicker like an old married couple. Heck, they even have four kids together!

Live-Action

Princess Leia and Han Solo from Star Wars.
- In the Star Wars Expanded Universe (specifically Fate of the Jedi), Luke's son Ben has a Dating Catwoman relationship with a Sith girl, and they're like this all the time. Taken Up to Eleven when in Ascension, Ben decides to break into her room...
Lo and Jen from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, especially in the desert scenes. This trope has been translated for your convenience into martial arts action!
Doug Dorsey and Kate Moseley from The Cutting Edge.
Cary Grant, James Stewart, and Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story form a BST Love Triangle.
This trope is also called a Tracy-Hepburn romance because of all the films where Spencer Tracy and Katie Hepburn behaved this way to each other.
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night.
Ben Quick and Clara Varner in The Long Hot Summer. Snarky dialogue with a William Faulkner candy coating!
Marion Ravenwood and Indiana Jones.
- Willie Scott and Indiana Jones.
Thick enough to serve up with an ice cream scoop between Christopher Wilde and Jessica Olson in the Disney Channel original movie Starstruck
In the second Pirates of the Caribbean film, everyone keeps giving Jack and Elizabeth crap about having the hots for each other. Do they admit it? No way in hell.
The Prince of Persia the Sands of Time movie, so very much.
~~Kate~~ Kat and ~~Petruchio~~ Patrick from 10 Things I Hate About You, what with the film being a High School AU of The Taming of the Shrew.
Philip Marlowe and Vivian Rutledge in The Big Sleep.
Following in the footsteps of the Star Wars example above, Spaceballs naturally has Lone Star and Princess Vespa.
Jake Gittes and Femme Fatale Lillian Bondine in The Two Jakes.

Jake: Honestly, I'm tryin' to be a gentleman about this. Now just, get down on your knees, stick your ass up in the air, and don't move 'til I tell ya.

Alfred Kralic and Clara Novak in The Shop Around the Corner. To make matters worse, each has got a wonderful pen pal with whom they're falling passionately in love...
Lucy and Jerry for most of The Awful Truth.
Mia and Nicolas in The Princess Diaries 2.

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