Summer films, films in which the heat is the protagonist. PHOTO

In post-war Tokyo burned by the heat, Akira Kurosawa sets his own Stray Dog, 1949 film in which a police officer must recover the lost honor by finding his firearm, with which a horrendous crime was committed

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The great 1951 classic by Elia Kazan A tram called desireawarded four Oscars and with a truly incredible cast (the Academy rewards Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter, but also the performance of Marlon Brando is gigantic), takes place in the torrid New Orleans, theater of the vicissitudes of the unfortunate Blanche DuBois

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The window on the courtyard by Alfred Hitchcock (1954), one of the most celebrated films in the history of cinema, sees the photojournalist played by James Stewart confined to a wheelchair due to a fracture. Locked up in the house and plagued by the heat, he spends his time spying on his neighbors, until he witnesses a disturbing fact

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When the wife is on vacationBilly Wilder’s cult comedy from 1955 stars Tom Ewell as a man who finds himself spending a hot summer at home without a wife and child. Things get complicated when the beautiful and naive nameless girl played by an unforgettable Marilyn Monroe moves upstairs

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In The long hot summer by Martin Ritt, 1958, Paul Newman (who on the set knows his future wife Joanne Woodward) is Ben Quick, a vagabond believed to be an arsonist, who arrives in a village in the deep south of the USA whose inhabitants are not exactly well disposed towards of strangers

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In the desert, the heat can only be the protagonist: and it is, together with a great Peter O’Toole, in the colossal Lawrence of Arabia by David Lean, awarded with seven Oscars

Neither the good, the bad and the ugly by Sergio Leone, from 1966, as well as throughout the Dollar Trilogy, heat is omnipresent

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Neither Inspector Tibbs’ hot nightNorman Jewison’s 1967 film, starring Sidney Poitier at his best, Inspector Tibbs, of Philadelphia, finds himself in spite of himself investigating a murder that took place in a racist Mississippi town

In That dog day afternoon by Sidney Lumet, 1975 film starring Al Pacino and John Cazale, three robbers find themselves dealing with a bank heist gone wrong as the temperature becomes intolerable

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Do not open that doorlow-cost horror by Tobe Hooper from 1974, ends up revolutionizing an entire film genre: the story is that of an unsuspecting group of day-trippers who, in torrid Texas, knock (precisely) on the wrong door and run into a family of deranged, among which we also find the now “mythical” Leatherface protagonist of a real saga, whose figure is inspired by that of the real serial killer Ed Gein

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Jack Nicholson is the protagonist of ChinatownRoman Polanski’s 1974 noir set in Los Angeles, in which the actor plays the role of a detective who begins by investigating an alleged cheater, but ends up uncovering a plot that has to do with the water reserves of arid California

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Against the dry heat of the desert, Francis Ford Coppola contrasts the infernal humidity of the jungle in his great classic Apocalypse Nowadapted from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, one of the few films whose production vicissitudes are as fascinating as the film itself. There quest by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) to track down the late Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando) in the Vietnamese jungle is a real descent into a hell of (hot) madness

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Warm shiver by Lawrence Kasdan, from 1981, is hot right from the title. In a torrid summer, the wife of a billionaire starts a clandestine relationship with a young lawyer, who also becomes her accomplice when she decides to get rid of her husband.

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The summer heat helps to ignite the flame of discontent in a Brooklyn on the verge of exploding due to racial conflicts: in the end, it will be above all a pizzeria that will pay the price. What movie are we talking about? But obviously of Do the right thing by Spike Lee, from 1989

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Put a stressed man in a traffic jam in the middle of a melting day, and the result will be A day of ordinary madnessa film by Joel Schumacher with Michael Douglas in the throes of a nervous breakdown that will lead him to make a series of crazy and violent gestures

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The South told in South by Gabriele Salvatores experiences a perennial heat wave, even when it is not in the middle of summer. This denunciation film tells of a group of desperate people who, in a small village, occupy the school where the polling stations are located during a hot election Sunday in the hope of making themselves heard by an outside world that appears hopelessly distant.

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In this list of films where the heat is king Spike Lee returns with SOS Summer of Sam – Panic in New Yorkof 1999. The story takes place in the hot summer of 1977, during which the serial killer (who really existed) David Berkowitz sows panic among the inhabitants of the Big Apple, who can’t wait to start a hunt for witches

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The Austrian Heat wave by Ulrich Seidl, from 2001, leaves no hope from the title: a series of stories of squalor and unhappiness intertwine in the outskirts of Vienna shaken by the August heat

A young Shia LaBeouf is the protagonist of Holes – Holes in the desertin which a boy is unjustly accused of theft and sent to a punitive colony where inmates are forced, apparently for no reason, to dig holes in the scorching sun

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Rankan Oscar-winning 2011 animated film by Gore Verbinski, follows the story of an unfortunate domestic chameleon who finds himself lost in a desert where every single drop of water is considered a treasure

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The Paperboy is a 2012 film directed by Lee Daniels, based on the Pete Dexter novel A Family Affair. Set amidst the swamps of Florida in the late 1960s, the film is hot both for the temperature and for the sexual tension between Nicole KIdman and Zac Efron

The pyrotechnic Mad Max: Fury Road by George Miller, from 2015, takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where the Earth is reduced to an arid plain and whoever controls the water holds the power.

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In Mine by Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro Armie Hammer is a marine who finds himself stuck in the desert, with one foot on a mine ready to detonate: among the many obstacles he will have to face to get out alive, the heat will be one of the most difficult

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Set in 1983, during a hot summer in the Po Valley, between the provinces of Crema and Bergamo, Call Me by Your Name is a 2017 film directed by Luca Guadagnino. The film won the Oscar for Best Non-Original Screenplay

Dune (Dune: Part One[2]) is a 2021 film directed by Denis Villeneuve. The film is the first part of the film adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Frank Herbert. Much of the work is set on the desert planet Arrakis, a place where you can only survive by wearing distillation suits. At the 2022 Oscars it was the most awarded film, with six statuettes won

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