Heat movie

In Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, a summer heat wave descends on Brooklyn, pushing neighbors into the streets and stirring up boiling resentments.

In Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, a summer heat wave descends on Brooklyn, pushing neighbors into the streets and stirring up boiling resentments. Here are some of my favorite movies in which sweltering temperatures drive the plot forward. The heat is less of an environmental setting and more of a character unto itself.