Summer camp movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant summer camp movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, funny and independent film films and TV shows about / with summer camp, youth, camp, teenager, friendship, teenage girl, coming of age, friends, summer and love plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres shot in USA, UK, Czech Republic and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as summer camp: BUNK'D (2015), Camp Takota (2014), Sleepaway Camp (1983), A Week Away (2021), Rim of the World (2019), The Parent Trap (1998), Little Darlings (1980), The Rainbow Tribe (2008), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Camp (2013).

List of summer camp movies

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 5.4
 4K
BUNK'D (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Siblings Emma, Ravi, and Zuri Ross leave their extravagant New York City penthouse once again to return to Camp Kikiwaka, a rustic summer camp in Maine where their parents met as teenagers.
Style: sitcom, entertaining, funny, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: summer camp, 13 year old, 17 year old, teenager, love and romance, teenage life, family relations, friendship, love triangle, rescue, couple relations, childhood ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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 6.6
 5K
Camp Takota (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With her personal and professional life in shambles, Elise ends up having to take a job as a counselor at her old summer camp. There, she reunites with two estranged friends who attended camp and never left. When the future of the camp is put in ...
Style: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: summer camp, save the day, friendship, youth, instructor, lesbian, fired from the job, rivalry, childhood friend, friends, camp, adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.2
 38K
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Slightly disturbed and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela's arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions.
Style: slasher, scary, twist ending, surprise ending, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: summer camp, psychopath, serial killer, youth, murder, bullying, rivalry, teenage life, danger, mental illness, female villain, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 2016
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 5.7
 5K
A Week Away (2021)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Troubled teen Will Hawkins has a run-in with the law that puts him at an important crossroad: go to juvenile detention or attend a Christian summer camp. At first a fish-out-of-water, Will opens his heart, discovers love with a camp regular, and ...
Style: sincere, feel good, captivating, teen, anamorphic
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: summer camp, fall in love, teenager, teenage love, teenage life, christian, teen romance, adolescence, teenage boy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, friendship ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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Rim of the World (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Stranded at a summer camp when aliens attack the planet, four teens with nothing in common embark on a perilous mission to save the world.
Style: action adventure, humorous, light, satirical, enigmatic ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: obsessive quest, child protagonist, summer camp, alien invasion, alien encounter, alien, end of the world, interracial friendship, social misfits, space, apocalypse, post apocalyptic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pasadena california, california
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 6.6
 153K
The Parent Trap (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins separated at a young age because of their parents' divorce. unknowingly to their parents, the girls are sent to the same summer camp where they meet, discover the truth about themselves, and ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, romantic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: twins, divorce, summer camp, mischievous children, single parent, lookalikes, child's point of view, twins separated at birth, father daughter relationship, matchmaking, teenage girl, butler ...
Time: 90s, year 1986, 20th century, year 1998
Place: california, london, bay area, england, europe ...
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Little Darlings (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two 15-year old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
Style: cult classic, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, funny, deep ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, summer camp, teenage sex, friendship, high school, teenager, sex, camp, summer, youth, loss of virginity, innocence lost ...
Time: 70s, year 1980, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa
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Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the counselors and campers on their first day at Camp Firewood in the summer of 1981.
Style: feel good, parody, not serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: summer camp, teenage life, camp counselor, rivalry, summer, counselor, friends, youth, buddies, silly humor, camp, grownups ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: maine, usa
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The Rainbow Tribe (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Morgan Roberts, a middle aged adult in crisis, reunites with his best friend when he returns to the summer camp of his youth. His troubles seem to magnify when he is joined by a rag-tag group of 10 year old campers. Through their struggles they ...
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, slapstick
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: summer camp, youth, boy, puberty, camp counselor, friendship, life is a bitch, disorder, friends, mischievous children, terminal illness, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them ...
Style: atmospheric, feel good, sentimental, surreal, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, date night, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: children, coming of age, adolescence, camp, first love, boy scout, orphan, youth, island, search party, summer camp, journey ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1965
Place: new england, nebraska, rhode island, usa
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 6.7
 788
Camp (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 12-year-old Eli finds himself at summer CAMP
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, christian film ...
Plot: boy, child abuse, summer camp, camp counselor, youth, kids in trouble, friendship, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Happy Campers (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Chaos and rampant hormones reign when teenage counselors are left in charge during their summer-camp director's absence.
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: summer camp, sexual awakening, youth, summer, skinny dipping, girl, camp counselor, loss of virginity, camp, love, unrequited love, buddies ...
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 25K
It Takes Two (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Identical 9-year-olds from very different backgrounds: orphaned Amanda and wealthy Alyssa meet at summer camp and decide to switch places -- and play matchmaker between Alyssa's dad, Roger, and the kind social worker who cares for Amanda.
Style: sweet, feel good, funny, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: twins, mischievous children, summer camp, children, parents and children, adoption, orphan, single father, single parent, camp, wedding, tomboy ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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 3.2
 18K
Daddy Day Camp (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Seeking to offer his son the satisfying summer camp experience that eluded him as a child, the operator of a neighborhood daycare center opens his own camp, only to face financial hardship and stiff competition from a rival camp.
Style: humorous, melancholic, not serious, slapstick, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: summer camp, competition, mischievous children, father son relationship, children, childhood, happy ending, colonel, family relations, buddies, escapades, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.2
 6K
Camp (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every ...
Style: talky, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: summer camp, gay, coming of age, dancing, lgbt, love and romance, teenage love, friendship, artists and showbiz, rock, love triangle, honest ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 6.3
 5K
Magic Camp (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Andy, at the urging of his former mentor and Magic Camp owner Roy Preston, returns to the camp of his youth hoping to reignite his career. Instead, he finds inspiration in his ragtag bunch of rookie magicians.
Style: fairy tale, captivating, enigmatic, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: magic trick, children, disneyland, summer camp, illusionist, magic, mentor, camp counselor, magical, workplace situations, workplace, humour ...
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 6.6
 30K
Heavy Weights (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Camp Hope is a summer retreat for overweight boys run by a kindly couple who make the campers feel comfortable with their extra pounds. But when tyrannical fitness guru Tony buys the camp, he puts the kids on a cruel regimen that goes too far. Sick ...
Style: funny, cult classic, feel good, romantic comedy, spectacular ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing
Plot: summer camp, childhood, obesity, overweight, camp, fat boy, coming of age, bullying, youth, fitness, teenager, summer ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
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 3.4
 2K
Camp Hell (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: At the end of every summer, the children of a Christian community from a suburb of New Jersey attend Camp Hope. They travel deep into the woods far from any distractions the world provides. Here, the children are taught the ways of the Lord, the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: summer camp, woods, isolation, curses spells and rituals, confined, danger, youth, clergy, supernatural ability, supernatural, resort, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
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Camp Cucamonga (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Standard camp shenanigans and romance amongst the counselors and the campers at a lake front summer camp.
Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: summer camp, family relations, friendship, love and romance, womanizer, fall in love, midlife crisis, teenage love, prank, young lovers, couples, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
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Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance councilor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents while stopping a shady strip mining company from closing the camp as well.
Style: humorous, slapstick, epic, slapstick comedy, not serious ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: summer camp, camp, childhood, handyman, bullying, stupidity, camping, youth, happy ending, lonely, humour, camping trip ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
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Dead of Summer (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer, and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp, including first loves, first kisses – and first kills. Clearwater’s ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, tense, rough, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, camp counselor, investigation, summer, self sacrifice, freak accident, summer camp, trapped, demon, lake, twists and turns, deputy ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, 1800s
Place: usa, midwest
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Utoya - July 22 (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The movie tells the story about a girl who has to hide and survive from terrorist Anders Breivik while looking for her little sister during the terrorist attacks in Norway on the island Utøya, July 22nd.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: summer camp, terrorist attack, terrorism, massacre, teenage girl, sister sister relationship, teenage protagonist, school shooting, group of friends, serial killer, nordic, terrorist ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: oslo norway
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 6.0
 1K
Kitchenblock (2021)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Summer 1980. While the Olympics held in the USSR, strange and horrible things are happening in a run-of-the-mill pioneer camp. It turns out pioneer vampires exist not only in horror stories. Smart beyond his years, independent, sensitive and ...
Style: scary, dark, suspense, creepy, atmospheric ...
Plot: camp, summer camp, vampire, private investigation, investigation, creature, supernatural, vampire hunter, child vampire, bloodsucker, atmosphere, darkness ...
Place: ussr
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A Pig's Tale (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kids' comedy with all the clichés. Six boys (hero, pudgy, dumb, romeo, etc), reluctantly sent to summer camp, are grouped together in a ramshackle hut, and instantly identified as losers and outcasts by the overconfident camp bullies, who ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: summer camp, coming of age, youth, bully, prank, rivalry, crush, childhood, summer, water skiing, archery, teenage crush ...
Time: 90s
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 5.5
 3K
The A List (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Romance, rivalry and radical mystery collide as a group of teens attend a remote island sleepaway camp in this suspenseful, supernatural drama.
Style: disturbing, scenic, colorful, dark, captivating
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: camp, summer camp, teenager, friendship, nature, popularity, danger, society, relationships, misfit, high school, female protagonist ...
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 5.2
 37K
Camp Rock (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Mitchie gets a chance to attend Camp Rock, her life takes an unpredictable twist, and she learns just how important it is to be true to yourself.
Style: romantic, teen, melancholic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: teenager, summer camp, teenage girl, love and romance, singing, teenage love, camp, lifestyle, cinderella story, friends, musician's life, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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Summertime Switch (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Young punk Freddie Egan is in a juvenile detention center for the summer. Spoiled rich-kid Frederick Egan III is going to a luxurious summer camp. However, a name mix-up at the bus terminal sends the boys to each other's destinations, and while ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, touching, humorous
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: summer camp, street kid, body swapping, mistaken identity, rich kid, power relations, disorder, youth, society, switching roles, misfit, prison ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland
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Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who ...
Style: humorous, funny, parody, stylized, harsh ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: summer camp, love triangle, lifeguard, camp, farce, rescue, coming of age, stoner, looking for sex, teenager, satire, summer ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 2000s, year 1981
Place: maine, italy
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 6.8
 3K
Standing Up (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on one of the most beloved Young Adult novels of all time: Two kids are stripped naked and left together on an island in a lake - victims of a vicious summer camp prank; But rather than have to return to camp and face the humiliation, they ...
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, sad ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: youth, friendship, child's point of view, coming of age, summer camp, children, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, child, on the road, runaway ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The First Turn-On!! (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of teenage summer campers and one counselor share the stories of their first sexual experiences when an avalanche traps them in a cave...
Style: sex comedy, sexy, teen sex comedy, grindhouse, realistic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: cave, summer camp, voyeur, teenager, erotica, looking for sex, sexual relations, sleaze, coming of age, orgy, sex, female nudity ...
Time: 80s
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