Hottest Movie Ever
by leavey-2 | created - 18 Apr 2017 | updated - 21 Apr 2017 | PublicNo, we don't mean the sexiest movie, but the hottest. Literally. Movies about extreme temperatures: fires, explosions, volcanoes, nuclear meltdowns, etc.
Which movie about heat made you open the top botton of your shirt just by watching it on TV or in the theater?
Discuss the list here
Related Poll: Coldest Movie Ever (by yrnej)
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1. Ablaze (2001)
AA | 97 min | Drama, Action, Thriller
An oil refinery blows up, causing a firestorm that threatens a hospital and everyone inside.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: John Bradley, Tom Arnold, Ice-T, Amanda Pays
Votes: 563
2. Armageddon (1998)
PG | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler
Votes: 388,080 | Gross: $201.57M
3. Backdraft (1991)
14A | 137 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two Chicago firefighter brothers, who don't get along, have to work together while a dangerous arsonist is on the loose.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland
Votes: 69,598 | Gross: $77.87M
4. The Core (2003)
PG | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again.
Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Bruce Greenwood
Votes: 91,116 | Gross: $31.19M
5. Dante's Peak (1997)
PG | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A vulcanologist arrives at a countryside town recently named the second most desirable place to live in America, and discovers that the long dormant volcano, Dante's Peak, may wake up at any moment.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Jamie Renée Smith, Jeremy Foley
Votes: 79,100 | Gross: $67.13M
6. Deepwater Horizon (2016)
14A | 107 min | Action, Drama, History
A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American history.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin, James DuMont
Votes: 145,514 | Gross: $61.43M
7. Fireproof (2008)
PG | 122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
In an attempt to save his marriage, a firefighter uses a 40-day experiment known as "The Love Dare."
Director: Alex Kendrick | Stars: Kirk Cameron, Erin Bethea, Ken Bevel, Stephen Dervan
Votes: 20,793 | Gross: $33.46M
8. Gau foh ying hung (2014)
115 min | Action, Drama
The firefighters of Hong Kong's Pillar Point division battle an out-of-control blaze that threatens to plunge the city into darkness.
Director: Chi-Kin Kwok | Stars: Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue, Simon Yam, Jun Hu
Votes: 1,111
9. Hellfighters (1968)
PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The story of macho oil well firefighters and their wives.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles
Votes: 5,087
10. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
13+ | 118 min | Action, Adventure
In 1935, Indiana Jones arrives in India, still part of the British Empire, and is asked to find a mystical stone. He then stumbles upon a secret cult committing enslavement and human sacrifices in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri
Votes: 434,686 | Gross: $179.87M
11. Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
G | 102 min | Comedy, Romance
When a hypochondriac learns that he is dying, he accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island, and along the way there, learns to truly live.
Director: John Patrick Shanley | Stars: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack
Votes: 33,708 | Gross: $39.40M
12. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
G | 129 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker
Votes: 15,208 | Gross: $10.00M
13. Ladder 49 (2004)
PG | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A firefighter, injured and trapped in a burning building, has flashbacks of his life as he drifts in and out of consciousness. Meanwhile, fellow firefighters led by the Chief attempt to rescue him.
Director: Jay Russell | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick
Votes: 54,157 | Gross: $74.54M
14. Pompeii (I) (2014)
14A | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Votes: 104,585 | Gross: $23.22M
15. Sunshine (2007)
14A | 107 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A team of international astronauts are sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 228,821 | Gross: $3.68M
16. The Towering Inferno (1974)
165 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
Votes: 38,014 | Gross: $116.00M
17. Volcano (1997)
PG | 104 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A volcano erupts in downtown Los Angeles, threatening to destroy the city.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle
Votes: 70,626 | Gross: $49.32M
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