Movies Similar to Love in a Hot Climate

The Last Rodeo(2025)

A retired rodeo legend risks it all to save his grandson. Facing his own painful past and the fears of his family, he enters a high-stakes bullriding competition as the oldest contestant ever. Along the way, he reconciles old wounds with his estranged daughter and proves that true courage is found in the fight for family.

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Talk to Her(2002)

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

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Jamon Jamon(1992)

José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.

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Bolero(1984)

Follows the tale of a young woman’s sexual awakening and subsequent journey around the world in pursuit of her ideal lover. Encounters include an Arabian sheik and a Spanish bullfighter. Her friend and butler accompany her and help to arrange her couplings.

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Matador(1986)

A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.

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The Moment of Truth(1965)

Miguel, a poor young man living in Franco's Spain becomes a bull fighter to escape starvation.

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The Magnificent Matador(1955)

Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.

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Fiesta(1947)

When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.

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Blood and Sand(1941)

Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.

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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman(1951)

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.

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Camelia(1954)

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

5.0

Uncle Hyacynth(1956)

Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding him that, as agreed a few days before, he must participate in a bullfight to be held that same afternoon.

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The Brave Bulls(1951)

A matador must recover his courage after being gored in the ring.

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Blancanieves(2012)

A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

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The Trumpet Blows(1934)

In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love with his brother's intended fiancé. Rather than cause problems, the younger brother goes to Mexico City to become a matador. While there, he gets word that the police, who have been hunting his brother, have finally captured him.

5.0

The Picasso Summer(1969)

A San Francisco couple travels to France in search of Pablo Picasso.

6.0

The Spaniard(1925)

In England, Don Pedro de Barrego meets Dolores Annesley, and he decides he must have her. Dolores, however, refuses to have anything to do with him. Later, when she visits Spain, she discovers he is a famous bullfighter.

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Bullfighter and the Lady(1951)

An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.

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Currito de la Cruz(1926)

Currito, raised in a Seville hospice, ekes out a living while trying to become a bullfighter.

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Spanish Clair de Lune(1909)

Two lovers perform a fandango dance. A jealous quarrel follows and the heart-broken swain decides to end it all. He throws himself from the window of his room, but instead of falling to his death, the anchor of a passing balloon intercepts his flight and he is taken high into the clouds. Laughing at his plight, the moon arouses the anger of the desperate lover and a battle between the two ensues.

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