Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "heat-wave"

1. 12 Angry Men (1957)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama

The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler

Votes: 867,191 | Gross: $4.36M

2. Falling Down (1993)

R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin

Votes: 207,108 | Gross: $40.90M

3. Rear Window (1954)

PG | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter

Votes: 523,016 | Gross: $36.76M

4. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

R | 83 min | Horror

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain

Votes: 184,131 | Gross: $30.86M

5. Weekend at Bernie's (1989)

PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Two idiots try to pretend that their murdered employer is really alive, leading the hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart, Terry Kiser

Votes: 63,031 | Gross: $30.22M

6. Geostorm (2017)

PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone.

Director: Dean Devlin | Stars: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Alexandra Maria Lara

Votes: 118,768 | Gross: $33.70M

7. Do the Right Thing (1989)

R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama

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.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson

Votes: 112,608 | Gross: $27.55M

8. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

R | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar

Votes: 273,406 | Gross: $50.00M

9. Summer of Sam (1999)

R | 142 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito

Votes: 41,430 | Gross: $19.28M

10. 12 Angry Men (1997 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 117 min | Crime, Drama

Twelve men must decide the fate of one when one juror objects to the jury's decision.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Hume Cronyn, Ossie Davis

Votes: 17,186

11. The Window (1949)

Approved | 73 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

To avoid the heat of a sweltering summer night a 9-year-old Manhattan boy decides to sleep on the fire escape and witnesses a murder, but no one will believe him.

Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart

Votes: 4,874

12. Volcano (1997)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A volcano erupts in downtown Los Angeles and a city official and a seismologist try to stop its inevitable flow through the city.

Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle

Votes: 81,656 | Gross: $49.32M

13. Ikiru (1952)

Not Rated | 143 min | Drama

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka

Votes: 87,779 | Gross: $0.06M

14. Stuber (2019)

R | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A detective recruits his Uber driver into an unexpected night of adventure.

Director: Michael Dowse | Stars: Dave Bautista, Kumail Nanjiani, Mira Sorvino, Natalie Morales

Votes: 51,476 | Gross: $22.37M

15. Women in Trouble (2009)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama

A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly desperate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, an actress, a masseuse. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble.

Director: Sebastian Gutierrez | Stars: Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Connie Britton, Dan Mailley

Votes: 6,593

16. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012 Video)

PG-13 | 76 min | Animation, Action, Crime

Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?

Director: Jay Oliva | Stars: Peter Weller, Ariel Winter, David Selby, Wade Williams

Votes: 63,281

17. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.

Director: Daniel Goldhaber | Stars: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck

Votes: 10,175

18. The Silence (1963)

R | 96 min | Drama

Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg

Votes: 21,361

19. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A detective protects a princess who prophecies Earth's destruction by a powerful alien dragon, which Mothra and her fairies - aided by Godzilla and Rodan - must battle against.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Yôsuke Natsuki, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Akiko Wakabayashi

Votes: 7,976

20. D.O.A. (1988)

R | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller

A college professor's day: his top student allegedly commits suicide, his wife presents him with divorce papers and he overnights in a freshman girl's dorm. The next day: more murders around him. Will he find the killer in time?

Directors: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern

Votes: 10,978 | Gross: $12.71M

21. Stray Dog (1949)

Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi

Votes: 18,969

22. The Balconettes (2024)

105 min | Comedy, Fantasy | Completed

Three women in a Marseille apartment gets stuck in a heat wave. They find themselves trapped in a terrifying affair and longing for freedom.

Director: Noémie Merlant | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Souheila Yacoub, Lucas Bravo, Henri Cohen

23. Bad Blood (1986)

Unrated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

As a deadly virus which infects people who have loveless sex sweeps Paris, a lonely pariah attempts to steal a potent antidote, only to fall for the mistress of his partner-in-crime. Is the infectious young love the cure to the bad blood?

Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Hans Meyer

Votes: 9,338 | Gross: $0.02M

24. Avalon (1990)

PG | 128 min | Drama

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Leo Fuchs, Eve Gordon

Votes: 6,783 | Gross: $15.74M

25. The Slasher ...is the Sex Maniac! (1972)

X | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.

Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero | Stars: Farley Granger, Sylva Koscina, Silvano Tranquilli, Annabella Incontrera

Votes: 1,097

26. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)

Unrated | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Edward Judd, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Michael Goodliffe

Votes: 6,213

27. Papi Chulo (2018)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

A lonely TV weatherman strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker.

Director: John Butler | Stars: Matt Bomer, Alejandro Patiño, Elena Campbell-Martinez, Wendi McLendon-Covey

Votes: 1,819 | Gross: $0.08M

28. Clapham Junction (2007 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Romance

A chronicle of 36 hours in the lives of a number of interconnected gay men in Clapham, South London.

Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Tom Beard, James Bellamy, Robin Berry, Rachael Blake

Votes: 3,084

29. Footprints on the Moon (1975)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

After being tormented by dreams about astronauts on the moon, a translator visits a deserted seaside town whose inhabitants know her, although she does not know them.

Directors: Luigi Bazzoni, Mario Fanelli | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery, Nicoletta Elmi, Caterina Boratto

Votes: 2,519

30. Night of the Big Heat (1967)

GP | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen, Peter Cushing, Jane Merrow

Votes: 2,337

31. Household Saints (1993)

R | 124 min | Drama

Unsettling drama about three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York's Little Italy.

Director: Nancy Savoca | Stars: Tracey Ullman, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lili Taylor, Judith Malina

Votes: 988 | Gross: $0.57M

32. Dog Days (2001)

R | 121 min | Drama

In the tomb-like quiet of their ranch-style purgatory, a divorced husband and wife fight a wordless war while mourning an unspeakable mutual loss. A sadistic lover's ritual humiliation spawns both tenderness and revenge.

Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Maria Hofstätter, Christine Jirku, Viktor Hennemann, Georg Friedrich

Votes: 6,553 | Gross: $0.01M

33. With a Friend Like Harry... (2000)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel's life... and things take a sinister turn.

Director: Dominik Moll | Stars: Laurent Lucas, Sergi López, Mathilde Seigner, Sophie Guillemin

Votes: 11,966 | Gross: $3.82M

34. Passport to Pimlico (1949)

Approved | 84 min | Comedy

Residents of a part of London declare independence after they discover an old treaty, which leads to the need for a "Passport to Pimlico".

Director: Henry Cornelius | Stars: Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis

Votes: 5,295

35. August (III) (2011)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Romance

August tells the story of two former lovers, Troy and Jonathan, who reunite after a long ago painful breakup. After spending several years in Spain, Troy returns to Los Angeles and decides ... See full summary »

Director: Eldar Rapaport | Stars: Murray Bartlett, Edward Conna, Adrian Gonzalez, Daniel Dugan

Votes: 2,026

36. Strange Weather (2016)

R | 92 min | Drama

in an effort to deal with the grief over the death of her son, a Georgia mother travels the back roads of the deep south to settle a score. A story of grief and forgiveness, of looking inward to find a way to move forward.

Director: Katherine Dieckmann | Stars: Holly Hunter, Carrie Coon, Kim Coates, Choppy Guillotte

Votes: 1,891

37. The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)

PG | 98 min | Comedy

A suddenly-unemployed company executive suffers a nervous breakdown, and his supporting wife tries everything to console him and pick up the slack.

Director: Melvin Frank | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson

Votes: 3,855

38. Mulberry St (2006)

R | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A deadly infection breaks out in Manhattan, causing humans to develop into blood-thirsty rat creatures.

Director: Jim Mickle | Stars: Nick Damici, Kim Blair, Ron Brice, Bo Corre

Votes: 6,412

39. Beyond the Horizon (2019)

90 min | Drama

Gus spends his vacation reading comic books, helping his father who has invested his entire savings in a modern battery henhouse, and running free with Mado.

Director: Delphine Lehericey | Stars: Luc Bruchez, Laetitia Casta, Thibaut Evrard, Clémence Poésy

Votes: 486

40. Street Scene (1931)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi

Votes: 2,055

41. Romeos (2011)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Romance

A drama centered on the relationship between a two young men, as one of them navigates the difficulties of life as a transgender man.

Director: Sabine Bernardi | Stars: Rick Okon, Max Befort, Liv Lisa Fries, Felix Brocke

Votes: 3,499 | Gross: $0.00M

42. Cause for Alarm! (1951)

Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An invalid husband (Barry Sullivan) wrongly believes his wife (Loretta Young) and doctor (Bruce Cowling) are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling, Margalo Gillmore

Votes: 2,654

43. Alice Adams (1935)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Evelyn Venable

Votes: 4,574

44. Hunky Dory (2011)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In the heat of the summer of 1976, drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end-of-term version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Director: Marc Evans | Stars: Minnie Driver, Kristian Gwilliam, Adam Byard, Aled Pugh

Votes: 1,332 | Gross: $0.02M

45. Brutal Heat (2023)

75 min | Drama

In a world threatened by a solar fragment hurtling towards Earth, an eighteen-year-old boy gets stranded on his way to a friend's cottage in an unfamiliar small town.

Director: Albert Hospodarsky | Stars: Tereza Dockalova, Vincent Hospodarsky, Václav Kopelec, Vojtech Kunc

Votes: 107

46. Odessa (I) (2019)

130 min | Comedy, Romance

Odessa, August 1970. A heat wave. The city is full of tourists. Boris and his eight-year-old son Valeri arrive from Moscow to visit his pensioner in-laws, Grigori and Raisa. Their daughters... See full summary »

Directors: Valeriy Todorovskiy, Irina Tretyakova | Stars: Evgeniy Tsyganov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Irina Rozanova, Kseniya Rappoport

Votes: 588

47. Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker (1989 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, History

Based on the true story of Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez who terrorized California in 1985 and the two Los Angeles police detectives who try to track him down.

Director: Bruce Seth Green | Stars: Richard Jordan, A Martinez, Julie Carmen, Alan Feinstein

Votes: 486

48. Inspector Maigret (1958)

119 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A serial killer is targeting women in the seedy district of Le Marais.

Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot, Jeanne Boitel

Votes: 2,088 | Gross: $0.01M

49. 30 Beats (2012)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Romance

A summer heat wave and a series of sexual encounters connect a group of New Yorkers.

Director: Alexis Lloyd | Stars: Dola Rashad, Justin Kirk, Jennifer Tilly, Jason Day

Votes: 1,055 | Gross: $0.01M

50. On the Border (1998 TV Movie)

R | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Jake Barnes is a security guard in a Texas border town bank. His boss asks him to spy on his sexy wife, that Jake is having an affair with. When he meets Danish girl Kristen, he gets caught... See full summary »

Director: Bob Misiorowski | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Bryan Brown, Daniel Baldwin, Rochelle Swanson

Votes: 710