Heat Wave

August. 13,1990      
Rating:
6.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Cicely Tyson as  Ruthana Richardson
Blair Underwood as  Bob Richardson
Sally Kirkland as  Mrs. Canfield
James Earl Jones as  Junius Johnson
Margaret Avery as  Roxie Turpin
David Strathairn as  Bill Thomas
Glenn Plummer as  J.T. Turpin
Vondie Curtis-Hall as  Clifford Turpin
Paris Vaughan as  Lada
Harold Pruett as  John Riggs

Similar titles

Gleaming the Cube
Gleaming the Cube
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone close to him dies. The cops rule the death a suicide, but the bereaved skater believes he was murdered. It's up to him to solve the case, with a skateboard.
Gleaming the Cube 1989
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Prime Video
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new mutants.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze 1991
Collateral
Prime Video
Collateral
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Collateral 2004
Fake Famous
Fake Famous
Explores the meaning of fame and influence in the digital age through an innovative social experiment. Following three Los Angeles-based people with relatively small followings, the film explores the attempts made to turn them into famous influencers by purchasing fake followers and bots to “engage” with their social media accounts.
Fake Famous 2021
The Long Goodbye
Prime Video
The Long Goodbye
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
The Long Goodbye 1973
The Karate Kid
The Karate Kid
Daniel moves to Los Angeles with his mother, Lucille, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target of bullying by a group of high school students, led by Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny, who study karate at the Cobra Kai dojo under ruthless sensei, John Kreese. Fortunately, Daniel befriends Mr. Miyagi, an unassuming repairman who just happens to be a martial arts master himself. Miyagi takes Daniel under his wing, training him in a more compassionate form of karate for self-defense and later, preparing him to compete against the brutal Cobra Kai.
The Karate Kid 1984
Training Day
Prime Video
Training Day
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Training Day 2001
Ask the Dust
Ask the Dust
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
Ask the Dust 2006
Nick of Time
Nick of Time
An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.
Nick of Time 1995
L.A. Story
L.A. Story
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
L.A. Story 1991