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Movies: Best "heatwave" Movies


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Body Heat(1981)

3.6/5 (with 233 votes)

In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

Do the Right Thing(1989)

16
| 2h | Drama
3.9/5 (with 732 votes)

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

Stray Dog(1949)

2h 2min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 120 votes)

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

The Prisoner of Second Avenue(1975)

1h 38min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 24 votes)

Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.

Cocoon(2020)

1h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her, opening up a whole new world and unexpected summer of love.

Directed by Leonie Krippendorff - With Lena Urzendowsky, Jella Haase, Anna Lena Klenke, Elina Vildanova

Night of the Big Heat(1967)

2.8/5 (with 18 votes)

While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.

Blind Sun(2016)

1h 28min | Mystery
2.5/5 (with 8 votes)

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Km. 0(2000)

3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

Located in Madrid's Plaza del Sol, Km. 0 is the point from which all distances in Spain are measured from the capital. In Km. 0, it is also the meeting point for a gallery of characters. Bored, affluent housewife Marga meets up with gigolo Miguel, who co-habitates with gay Benjamin. Sergio, a soon-to-be-married office clerk who can't wait to lose his virginity, makes the acquaintance of prostitute Tatiana, while gay dancer Bruno meets Maximo. Meanwhile, wannabe director Pedro arranges to meet up with Silvia, an actress who wants to work in musicals directed by Gerardo, and bartender Mario is caught between Amor, who wants to marry him, and her little sister Roma, who is truly in love with him.

The Proud and the Beautiful(1953)

1h 43min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

The first to die in an epidemic of meningitis in Vera Cruz is a French tourist. His wife Nellie, detached and indifferent, feels little grief and realizes that her coldness is her own doom. Over the next two days, she is attracted to George, a local drunk who does odd jobs for brothels and dances grotesquely for tourists in exchange for drinks. George has his own dark secret, a tragedy he caused that leaves him with a death wish. In assisting the local doctor to cope with the epidemic, these two emotional cripples enable each other to rediscover reasons to live and to love.

By the Pool(2016)

15min | Drama

During the heat wave, swimmers flock to a municipal pool. Rain or shine, as the days pass the place takes on a life of its own, and the lifeguards, while immature at times, shoulder considerable responsibilities.

Galore(2013)

1h 44min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

As four teens navigate the flashpoint of adolescent relationships, their lives will be forever scarred by a tragedy that engulfs their city. Teenagers Billie and Laura, who live in Canberra’s suburban outskirts, are best friends and share everything – even, as it turns out, Laura’s boyfriend Danny, although Laura doesn’t know this. During the summer of Canberra’s bushfires, Billie’s mother welcomes the troubled Isaac into her care and his presence causes disarray in the girls’ friendship: Laura finds herself drawn to the gentle but intense newcomer while Billie’s unpredictable ways threaten self-destruction.

Directed by Rhys Graham - With Ashleigh Cummings, Lily Sullivan

NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell(2007)

1h 27min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 5 votes)

New York City, 1977 - It was a time when the city had fallen into decay, with too few jobs, money, police, schools, and social services. There was a city wide blackout with major looting, a serial killer on the loose, and the Bronx was burning. And yet out of the chaos emerged one of the most creative times any city has ever encountered.

Directed by Henry Corra - With Geraldo Rivera
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Heatwave!(1974)

1h 30min | Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.

Directed by Jerry Jameson - With Ben Murphy

Bengbulan(1996)

1h 22min | Drama

The twelve-year-old Carmen has to stay at home during the summer while most other people are on holiday. She plays with the the younger children Anders and Kerstin. Twenty-year-old Bengt-Olof is a little bit retarded and has no other friends of his own age. Therefore he frightens and mobs the children in the neighbourhood who first try to flee him. But after some days they plan their revenge...

Directed by Suzanne Osten

Cooked: Survival by Zip Code(2019)

1h 19min | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Filmmaker Judith Helfand's searing investigation into the politics of “disaster” – by way of the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave, in which 739 residents perished (mostly Black and living in the city’s poorest neighborhoods).