Boiling Point

Apr 16, 1993

1h 32m

★ 4.9

He's a cop who reached the Boiling Point.

Overview

Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; but when Ronnie kills an undercover secret service agent, his partner Jimmy Mercer vows revenge and is given one week to catch the killers before being transferred.

Genres

Drama

Action

Crime

Thriller

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Hexagon Films

Boiling Point Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Jimmy Mercer

Wesley Snipes

Rudolph 'Red' Diamond

Dennis Hopper

Vikki Dunbar

Lolita Davidovich

Ronnie

Viggo Mortensen

Virgil Leach

Seymour Cassel

Max Waxman

Jonathan Banks

Carol

Christine Elise

Tony Dio

Tony Lo Bianco

Mona

Valerie Perrine

Levitt

James Tolkan

Transaction Man

Paul Gleason

Connie

Lorraine Evanoff

A film based on the event of the first three seasons of of the series "Stranger Things" Season 3. Early Winter, 1985. Presumed dead by the world, Jim Hopper finds himself trapped in a secret gulag, the Pot’ma Camp. Haunted by visions of his past, Hopper struggles to survive days after days in the camp. Until Dmitri Antonov, a guard also tormented by his own demons, offers him a chance to escape.

0.0

Cottonmouth

Jun 7, 2025

When Ed Dantes is framed and condemned to the tortures of a territorial prison in the 1895, he must learn the ways of the outlaw to escape and exact his revenge.

0.0

The Statement

Feb 7, 2024

Descending into a cave, two men seek answers to a book of unknown horrors. What will they find and will their sanity prevail?

6.3

Jibril

May 9, 2019

The love story between Maryam and Gabriel starts by coincidence but feels like a match made in heaven. It also marks an emotional tide change in Maryam´s life in Berlin as a single mom of three daughters. Only one crucial thing stands between her, Gabriel and a “happily ever after” – prison bars. Nevertheless, the love Maryam feels empowers her not only to live in the moment, but to be true to herself when Gabriel suddenly starts to show a different side to his character.

6.9

The Mustang

Mar 15, 2019

While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.

0.0

Police Nurse

Jun 1, 1963

While investigating his wife's sudden death, a policeman becomes involved with shady doctors and black-market racketeers.

6.0

Hell on Devil's Island

Aug 4, 1957

An ex-con from Devil's Island enlists the support of the governor's daughter in exposing a prison mining operation.

6.0

Alive

Sep 7, 2018

A severely injured man and woman awake in an abandoned sanitarium only to discover that a sadistic caretaker holds the keys to their freedom and the horrific answers as to their true identity.

5.0

Monster

Nov 29, 2023

After being abducted and taken to a desolate house, a girl sets out to rescue her friend and escape from their malicious kidnapper.

6.4

Cut Throat City

Jul 31, 2020

Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist, right in the heart of the city.

5.8

Eileen

Dec 1, 2023

During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.

5.7

122

Jan 2, 2019

During a bloody night, a young man and his lover are struggling, not to get to the hospital, but to escape and survive.

0.0

Hunger for Freedom

Feb 22, 2023

The Second World War. A group of Royal Air Force officers led by William Ash (Jakub Reizer) is staying in Oflag XXI B, located in Szubin (Poland). The prisoners decide to organize a diversionary action, which is to be a daring escape through a tunnel, named after the main originator - the Asselin tunnel. They are helped in their activities by the Polish resistance movement, which includes a young photographer, Henryk Szalczyński (Michał Matela), who develops photos for forged documents.

7.9

Miracle in Cell No. 7

Sep 8, 2022

Dodo Rozak just wants to be a good father to his daughter, Kartika, despite his limited intelligence, acts and behaves like children. In fact, it is Kartika who takes care of her father most of the time. Both live happily.

6.2

Target Number One

Jul 10, 2020

Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarceration, the news of his conviction captures the attention of Globe and Mail journalist Victor Malarek, who decides to go after the shady undercover cops responsible for wrongly accusing Daniel.

6.5

Eden

Mar 20, 2013

After a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire fighter. What begins as a night of promise quickly turns into a nightmare when she is abducted and imprisoned outside Las Vegas as a sex slave.

5.1

Weeds

Oct 16, 1987

A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

6.6

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer

Nov 1, 1992

In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of murders. Broomfield conducts interviews with Wuornos herself, and his crew films her trial as well as her interactions with religious fanatic Arlene Pralle, who gives Wuornos dubious advice and legally adopts her. The cameras also roll as the accused's attorney ignores the case at hand to negotiate a deal to sell his client's story.

4.0

Mindgame Trilogy

Mar 5, 1999

Anthology sequel to "Mindgame" (1998) which follows the fate of the three prisoners after their escape from their asteroid prison cell. Sontaran Sarg faces death against overwhelming odds on a desolate battleground, Draconian Merq faces trial after receiving an unusual "gift" and the human pilot finds herself stranded in space in a crippled fighter and a rapidly depleting oxygen supply.

6.5

Inside Out

Oct 19, 1975

An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.