Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Hot Summer

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

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for Hot Summer.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
Inheritance

Inheritance

2020★ 6.3

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

The patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their li...

#2
Some Velvet Morning

Some Velvet Morning

2013★ 5.8

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

Fred arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle th...

#3
Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce

1945★ 7.6

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

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter....

#4
Addicted

Addicted

2014★ 5.9

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

A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life....

#5
Dream Lover

Dream Lover

1994★ 6.4

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

Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to real...

#6
Gone Girl

Gone Girl

2014★ 7.9

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

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent....

Advertisement