Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Jan 19, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Heat

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

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#1
The Conversation

The Conversation

1974★ 7.5

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

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered....

#2
The Codes

The Codes

1966★ 6.6

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

An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself....

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#4
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#5
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

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

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...

#6
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019★ 7.4

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

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie indust...