Swelter is a 2014 American action film written and directed by Keith Parmer and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lennie James, Catalina Sandino, Alfred Molina, Grant Bowler and Josh Henderson.

James plays a sheriff in a small town who has a dark past that he can not remember, only to have to confront it when his ex-partners show up looking for stolen money they believe he has.

From a boastful mechanic, they learn that their former partner apparently survived and escaped with the money due to the intervention of a local physician.

They find Doc, the physician, at a local bar and, from him and other patrons, learn that the sheriff mysteriously appeared ten years ago.

Curious, they start a bar fight in order to draw out the sheriff, who they realize is Pike, the partner who escaped.

Pike now calls himself Bishop and claims to suffer from amnesia and migraines from the bullet fragments lodged in his head.

Cole reveals Bishop's criminal background to the populace and gives them until sunrise to find the missing money.

Abby Miller, Guy Wilson, Courtney Hope, Peter Vack, Arie Verveen, Richard Whiten, Dawn Lewis, and Tracey Walter appear as townspeople.

[6] yet Van Damme "shines in a more vulnerable and subtle role" and "even the bad guys here are complex, each of them with different codes and agendas"[7] Swelter was nominated Outstanding Overall Blu-ray/DVD by the International Press Academy for its 19th Satellite Awards alongside Twelve Years a Slave and Guardians of the Galaxy.