Swelter

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows swelter

poster Hot Spell
Hot Spell
(3.5/5)
86mn - Drama
Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, tries to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve their problems and doing her best to keep her family t…
poster The Blacksmiths
The Blacksmiths
(2.6/5)
1mn - Documentary
While his aide continuously turns the handle of the bellows, keeping hot a small furnace in front of him, a blacksmith is pounding a piece of metal on an anvil, then plunges the shaft into a tub of water,…
poster Sumurun
Sumurun
103mn - Adventure, Drama, Romance
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
poster The Long, Hot Summer
The Long, Hot Summer
(3.7/5)
115mn - Drama, Romance
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
poster Hurdy Gurdy
Hurdy Gurdy
20mn - Comedy
A heat wave sends the residents of a New York City tenement to their fire escapes for whatever breeze is stirring. The tenants are a cross section of melting-pot culture: Irish, Jewish, German, and Itali…
poster The Slave Market
The Slave Market
3mn - Adventure
In front of a round tent, a pasha is sitting on the grass; to the right of the tent's door, covered with a patterned blanket, is a flagpole - on top of which is an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film's logo]. The…
poster Flirty Four-Flushers
Flirty Four-Flushers
(3.1/5)
19mn - Comedy
With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.
poster Ringkämpfer
Ringkämpfer
1mn - Documentary
Two men in white leotards and tights, and black slips over it, wrestle on a theatre stage.
poster Hot Water
Hot Water
(3.6/5)
59mn - Comedy
Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow. Finally, a sequence in whi…
poster Side Streets
Side Streets
(2.8/5)
131mn - Comedy
Five interconnected stories unfold across New York City's boroughs during the hottest day of summer, as a Romanian butcher gambles away his future, a fashion designer fights for her dreams in Manhattan, a…
poster Husbands or Lovers
Husbands or Lovers
(3.1/5)
56mn - Drama, Romance
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
poster Suds
Suds
75mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance
Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that…
poster Washerwomen on the River
Washerwomen on the River
1mn - Documentary
Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.
poster Die Serpentintänzerin
Die Serpentintänzerin
1mn - Documentary
A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
poster The Great Flamarion
The Great Flamarion
(3.3/5)
78mn - Crime, Drama, Mystery
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
poster Meltdown: Days of Destruction
Meltdown: Days of Destruction
90mn - Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
When a reckless experiment to destroy an asteroid goes catastrophically wrong, Earth's orbit shifts dangerously closer to the sun, triggering rapid global heating and chaos as LAPD detective Tom Bracket m…
poster Study Hell
Study Hell
80mn - Horror
What starts as routine after-school detention becomes a nightmare when their supervising teacher, a troubled war veteran with PTSD, finally snaps under pressure. Drawing on his deadly military training, t…
poster Ashgrove
Ashgrove
93mn - Drama
Set during a pandemic that affects the world's water supply, one of the world's top scientists is battling to find a cure.
poster Salt of the Earth
Salt of the Earth
(3.7/5)
94mn - History, Drama
At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is sh…
poster Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke
(2.7/5)
1mn - Documentary
Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a smelter into a yard, one worker sprays it with water fro…
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