Heat movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant heat movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, psychological and captivating films and TV shows about / with heat wave, bare chested male, danger, fire, cigarette smoking, survival, desert, male nudity, death and water plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as heat: Apocalypse (2011), 247°F (2011), Blind Sun (2015), Do the Right Thing (1989), Valley of Love (2015), The Hill (1965), Heatwave! (1974), Aurora (1998), Dune (2021), Backdraft (1991).

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 5.9
 12K
Apocalypse (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspenseful, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, heat wave, cannibalism, dystopian future, life is a bitch, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, chase, danger, on the run, distopia ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future
Place: germany
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 4.8
 7K
247°F (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Georgia, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four friends travel to a lakeside cabin for a carefree weekend, the fun turns into a nightmare when 3 of them end up locked in a hot sauna. Every minute counts and every degree matters as they fight for their lives in the heat up to 247°F.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, teen horror, splatter, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: isolation, survival, danger, friends, sauna, trapped, trap, friendship, woods, mind game, escape room, confined space ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.3
 2K
Blind Sun (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story: ​Greece. A seaside resort struck by a heavy heat wave. Water is scarce and violence is ready to explode. Ashraf, a solitary immigrant, is looking after a villa while its owners are away. On a dusty road crushed by the sun, he is stopped by a ...
Style: unusual plot structure, psychological, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: water shortage, heat wave, immigrant, seaside, isolation, alone, isolated house, loneliness, hostility, police, beach, male nudity ...
Time: future, near future
Place: greece
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Do the Right Thing (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Style: realistic, talky, hood, stylized, independent film ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: heat wave, hip hop, police brutality, pizzeria, urban ghetto life, racism, pizza, ghetto, prejudice, african american, black, social commentary ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1989
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, africa, new york state
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Valley of Love (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A story of two famous actors who used to be a couple. They reunite after the son's death and receive a letter asking them to visit five places at Death Valley, which will make the son reappear.
Style: captivating
Plot: death of son, separated parents, death valley, ex husband ex wife relationship, desert, loss of son, vegetarian, suicide attempt, swimming pool, death, divorced parents, parents and children ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A new family moves into the house on Elm Street, and before long, the kids are again having nightmares about deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger. This time, Freddy attempts to possess a teenage boy to cause havoc in the real world, and can only ...
Style: slasher, scary, queer horror, creepy, surreal ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: high school, gay, serial killer, monster, gay subtext, homoeroticism, revenge, nightmare on elm street, gory, supernatural horror, nudity, blood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985, year 1989
Place: usa, midwest, ohio
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 7.9
 15K
The Hill (1965)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a ...
Style: black and white, tense, bleak, noir, retro ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: world war two, prison, military, desert, brutality, prison escape, sadism, military prison, world war, great war, wartime, prisoner ...
Time: 1940s, year 1965, 20th century
Place: africa, libya, north africa
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 5.8
 202
Heatwave! (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The residents of an isolated mountain town must band together to survive during a devastating heat wave.
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, heat wave, distopia, pregnancy and birth, pregnant wife, husband wife relationship, beer, punched in the face, community, rationing, mountain ...
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 3.5
 220
Aurora (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the 22nd century, seven explorers set out on a mission to earth's nearest sister planet, AURORA. Their mission - to survey and explore for future colonization. When their ship suddenly malfunctions, the crew is forced to crash land on the ...
Style: futuristic, independent film
Plot: space opera, heat wave, rescue, alien planet, water shortage, desert planet, stranded in the desert, death, spacecraft, accident, broken leg, outer space ...
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Style: melancholic, talky, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: submarine, underwater, disaster, survival, betrayal, race against time, apocalypse, moral dilemma, dystopic future, brutality, rescue, shark ...
Time: future, year 1961, 20th century
Place: new york
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 8.0
 785K
Dune (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure ...
Style: epic, suspense, captivating, tense, action adventure ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: desert, space opera, alien planet, messiah, prophecy, destiny, outer space, premonition, water shortage, politics, adaptation, survival ...
Time: future, distant future, 2020s
Place: space western
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 6.7
 87K
Backdraft (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: They say a blast of flames can take a life ... and hide a secret. But now firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey are battling each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: firefighter, investigation, arson, corruption, disaster, fire, pyromaniac, rescue, firefighting, danger, natural disaster, rookie ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago, usa
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 7.1
 3K
The Stranger (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Algeria
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Stranger is a literal (but still very cinematic) adaptation of the novel by Albert Camus. Marcello Mastrioanni stars as Meursault, a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, ...
Style: philosophical, neo noir, neorealism, existential, contemplative ...
Plot: nihilism, murder, philosophy, society, courtroom drama, death of mother, mourning, italian neorealism, death penalty, social outcast, summer, art ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 1930s
Place: algeria, middle east
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 7.6
 205K
Falling Down (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: On the day of his daughter's birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster is trying to get to the home of his estranged ex-wife to see his daughter. His car breaks down, so he leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. ...
Style: psychological, rough, suspense, disturbing, black comedy ...
Audience: manly, date night
Plot: rage, vigilante, anger, violence, midlife crisis, alienation, heat wave, social commentary, character study, traffic jam, urban decay, obsession ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, persia, usa
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Out in the Open (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A boy escaped from home, listening, crouched in the depths of his hiding place, the cries of the men who seek him. When the game passes, what remains before him is an infinite and arid plain that he must cross if he wants to get away definitively ...
Style: suspense, period drama
Audience: kids
Plot: spanish civil war, man boy relationship, gays and lesbians, survival, child, fire, bus, desert, little sister, male nudity, torture, wasteland ...
Time: 1940s, year 1946
Place: spain
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 6.4
 140K
Escape Room (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.
Style: suspense, exciting, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: puzzle, trapped, game of death, survival, escape room, clue, group of strangers, quest, riddles and clues, evil corporation, teamwork, death ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago
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 5.8
 1K
Tobruk (2008)
Genre: History, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: It is the story of Jiri and Jan, two Czech soldiers, battling alongside the allied forces against the Germans, during World War II in Tobruk, Libya. Jiri Pospichal, eighteen years old, signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak army. His naive ...
Style: serious, disturbing, realistic
Plot: desert, world war two, soldier, army, military, war, survival, battles, male pubic hair, danger, wartime life, military life ...
Time: year 1942, 20th century, 19th century
Place: czech republic, egypt
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It's Only the End of the World (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
Style: psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, suspenseful, art house ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, gay, lgbt, illness, resentment, lgbtq, gay lead character, marital argument, parents and children, loneliness, gay interest, life philosophy ...
Time: year 2016
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 7.5
 2K
The Hunt (1966)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.
Style: suspense, neo noir, manga, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: spanish civil war, rabbit, hunting, killing an animal, love letter, mental disorder, criminal mind, group of friends, donkey, peeping tom, pig, friends ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: iberian peninsula, spain
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 8.1
 188K
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, rough, intense ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: prison, escape, freedom, prison break, rebelliousness, death, prison escape, dignity, escape attempt, prison life, fugitive, prisoner ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1967, 60s
Place: florida, southern usa
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 7.4
 40K
Body Heat (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
Style: neo noir, sexy, sexual, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: femme fatale, obsession, murder, adultery, lawyer, husband wife relationship, female nudity, passion, fatal attraction, greed, adulteress, lust ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: florida, usa, miami
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 4.5
 862
Thirst (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After wrecking their car in the middle of the desert, two couples find themselves stranded with few supplies. When the heat intensifies and their precious water supply dwindles, the frantic friends begin betraying each other in the hopes of ...
Style: serious, tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night
Plot: desert, wilderness, survival, stranded in the desert, dehydration, isolation, danger, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, thirst, wilderness survival, road trip, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.6
 391
The Dupes (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Syria
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get work in Kuwait. They hire a water-truck driver to transport them illegally across the border in the tank of his truck.
Style: road movie
Plot: desert, refugee, international relations, alienation, amputee, escape, heat wave, flashback, father son relationship, truck, impotence, illegal immigrant ...
Place: syria, palestine, iraq, middle east
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have ...
Style: bleak, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: end of the world, disaster, cold war, nuclear bomb, newspaper, natural disaster, science, chaos, race against time, danger, nuclear, worldwide chaos ...
Time: 60s, year 1961, distant future, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, russia, new york ...
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 5.0
 170
Oh Marbella (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Marbella, the original Costa del Sol paradise for the rich and famous and for those wishing they were.
Plot: nudism, gangster, hitman, goat, heat wave, female pubic hair, male pubic hair, female nudity, male nudity, skinny dipping, sauna, daydreamer ...
Place: spain
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 7.0
 7K
Dog Days (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on the run for some car vandals, a couple with a serious marriage problem and an old man, whose wife ...
Style: realistic, sexy, disturbing, controversial, depressing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexual perversion, longing, strong sexual content, couples, suburbs, real sex, sexual relations, couple relations, husband wife relationship, sex, erotica, relationships ...
Time: year 2003, year 2001, 21st century
Place: vienna, austria
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 6.5
 772
Baden Baden (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long enough to feel out of place everywhere.
Plot: women, woman, graduation, adolescence, twenty something, realism, heat wave, summer, female nudity, male full rear nudity, male nudity, bare chested male ...
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 7.6
 128K
Barton Fink (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Style: psychological, surreal, neo noir, dark comedy, cerebral ...
Plot: twists and turns, hollywood, showbiz, murder, screenwriter, neighbor, surrealism, serial killer, insanity, dark humor, film industry, filmmaking ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, year 1991, year 1941
Place: los angeles, california, usa, new york, new york state
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Non Non Biyori (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Hotaru Ichijo, a fifth grader from Tokyo, transfers into Asahigaoka Branch School, far out at the countryside, and has to adjust to her new environment with her new friends.
Style: anime, light, feel good, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, high school life, teenage girl, japanese culture, society, countryside, school, nature, slice of life, village, arm wrestling, female teacher ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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The Battle of El Alamein (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This movie's opening prologue states: "June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given ...
Style: macaroni combat, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, tank, world war, world war two, nazi, combat, freedom, revolutionary, struggle, revolution, revolutionary war, battles ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969
Place: africa, north africa, germany, sahara
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