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10 Best Movies Like Hot Spot

If you loved Hot Spot, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Hit List

Hit List

2024★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hot Spot for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Vijay, a typical middle-class guy, finds his life ruined when a masked man kidnaps his family and forces him to become an unwilling assassin, targeting the masked man’s rivals in a...

#2
The Boys

The Boys

2024★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hot Spot for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Five troublemaking bachelors get evicted and need to find refuge in a suspiciously affordable house on the outskirts of the city. Little do they know, the house has its own history...

#3
Forest

Forest

2014★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hot Spot for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Short film built from photographs, sped up like a traditional stop motion and is meant to be an evocation of the English Eerie and Folk Horror....

#4
Kaantha

Kaantha

2025★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hot Spot for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in the backdrop of a film set, in the 1950’s in post colonial Madras, the film is centred around the professional rivalry between a film-maker trying to make his seminal film a...

#5
Open Five

Open Five

2010★ 4.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hot Spot for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A blend of reality and fiction, "Open Five" follows the story of Jake, a struggling musician and his sidekick, Kentucker, a maker of "poor" films and what happens when two girls (L...

#6
In The Red

In The Red

2019★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hot Spot for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Revealing the truth about women and the culture of the Middle East...