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, funny, captivating and light films and TV shows about / with summer camp, camp, teenager, youth, friendship, teenage girl, boy, woods, coming of age and children plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres shot in USA, UK, East Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as summer camp: Little Darlings (1980), BUNK'D: Learning the Ropes (2015), A Week Away (2021), Rim of the World (2019), Seven Freckles (1978), The Parent Trap (1998), Camp (2013), Camp Hell (2010), Camp Cucamonga (1990), Camp Takota (2014).
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List of summer camp movies
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, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
summer camp, coming of age, teenage girl, teenager, sexual awakening, teenage sex, friendship, high school, dating, teen angst, summer, loss of virginity ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1980, 20th century
Place:
georgia, usa, new jersey
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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, romantic, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
summer camp, 13 year old, 17 year old, teenager, love and romance, teenage life, rescue, family relations, love triangle, friendship, couple relations, justice ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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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, captivating, feel good, teen, anamorphic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
summer camp, fall in love, teenage love, teenage boy, teenage life, teen romance, adolescence, christian, character change, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, friendship ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, 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, light, humorous, satirical, enigmatic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
alien invasion, child protagonist, summer camp, alien, alien encounter, camp counselor, obsessive quest, interracial friendship, social misfits, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, space ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pasadena california, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Teens in a holiday-camp. First love, first sex, first self-made theatre performance of "Romeo and Julliet" - quite interesting to have a look at the east-German youth in the seventies.
Style:
erotic, teen comedy
Plot:
coming of age, teenage sex, summer camp, teenage girl, erotica, female pubic hair, nudity, male pubic hair, public nudity, first love, love, shakespeare's romeo and juliet ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
east germany, europe, central europe
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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, sweet, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, kids, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
twins, divorce, summer camp, mischievous children, lookalikes, single parent, child's point of view, dishonesty, father daughter relationship, twins separated at birth, children, matchmaking ...
Time:
year 1986, 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
london, california, big ben london, bay area, england ...
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813
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
12-year-old Eli finds himself at summer CAMP
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, christian film ...
Plot:
child abuse, boy, summer camp, camp counselor, youth, kids in trouble, friendship, life is a bitch, hopes, family problems, teaching the ways of the world, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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:
suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
summer camp, woods, curses spells and rituals, youth, danger, confined, isolation, resort, clergy, society, supernatural, supernatural ability ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
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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, semi serious, realistic, humorous, teen
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
summer camp, young lovers, camp, family relations, friendship, love and romance, womanizer, teenage love, midlife crisis, fall in love, prank, couples ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
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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, captivating, sincere, feel good ...
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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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, surprise ending, twist ending, sexy, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
summer camp, serial killer, murder, bullying, psychopath, youth, teenage life, female villain, rivalry, psycho killer, danger, teenage girl ...
Time:
80s, year 2016
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut eagerly awaiting her first trip to space, runs a summer camp for teenagers with her NASA-employed husband, Zach. One night during an engine test, Andie and four teenage campers are accidentally shot into space. ...
Style:
entertaining, melancholic, semi serious, inspirational, action adventure ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, boys' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
nasa, space shuttle, space travel, trapped in space, astronaut, summer camp, space program, teenage girl, childhood, photographic memory, space opera, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 60s, future
Place:
alabama, california
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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:
suspenseful, bleak, tense, rough, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, camp counselor, investigation, demon, freak accident, self sacrifice, trapped, summer camp, summer, twists and turns, paranormal, lake ...
Time:
80s, 1800s, year 1989, 19th century
Place:
usa, midwest
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Just like every other summer, the children of two camp-sites play "war". But, this summer it takes an interesting turn.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, rich and poor, forbidden love, summer camp, love and romance, fall in love, rivalry, power relations, young heroes, heroes, uninhibited rivalry, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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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, camp, gay couple, rivalry, summer, friends, youth, buddies, silly humor, grownups ...
Time:
20th century, year 1981, 80s
Place:
maine, usa
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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, slapstick comedy, raunchy comedy, epic ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
summer camp, camp, stupidity, childhood, handyman, bullying, camping, youth, happy ending, woods, native american, competition ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
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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, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
summer camp, camp, teenager, friendship, popularity, danger, nature, society, relationships, misfit, survival, supernatural ...
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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, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
summer camp, terrorist attack, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, massacre, sister sister relationship, terrorism, terrorist bombing, group of friends, school shooting, nordic, serial killer ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
oslo norway
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, 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, cute, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, boy scout, children, adolescence, first love, camp, youth, island, summer camp, orphan, search party, childhood ...
Time:
60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1965, 2010s
Place:
new england, rhode island, nebraska, usa, england ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 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, teens ...
Plot:
childhood, summer camp, mischievous children, competition, happy ending, children, father son relationship, colonel, family relations, buddies, escapades, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, cuba
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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, atmospheric, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
magic trick, illusionist, children, summer camp, disneyland, magic, mentor, camp counselor, illusion, magical, workplace situations, humour ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A bumbling guy takes a group of orphans to summer camp.
Style:
slapstick, funny, independent film
Audience:
kids
Plot:
summer camp, orphan, hotel, vacation, millionaire, death, greed, archery, scorpion, lizard, horse riding, sudden death ...
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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, sexual, feel good, light ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
summer camp, sexual awakening, skinny dipping, girl, loss of virginity, camp counselor, youth, friendship, coming of age, love, unrequited love, lesbian sex ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, various problems linked to children about the rooms, trips, their belongings...
Style:
feel good, lighthearted, period piece
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
summer vacation, young love, summer camp, children, summer, friendship, youth, coming of age, bonding, nostalgia, teamwork, teenager ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s
Place:
south of france, france
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Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of people have just signed up to be camp Councillors at a foreign country. They expect the camp to be the place for a memorable summer. Instead, something strange is going on and some of the campers begin to act strange. Things go ...
Style:
suspense, slasher, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
summer camp, disease, virus, camp, zombie, terror, murder, survival, desert, perversion, insanity, monster ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
europe, spain
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Encouraged by his quirky grandfather, a young boy faces his fears at summer camp.
Style:
inspirational, christian film, sweet, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
bully, summer camp, overcoming fear, nerd, camp, children, family relations, grandfather grandson relationship, parents and children, social relations, friendship, faith based ...
Place:
louisiana
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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, friendship, life is a bitch, disorder, mischievous children, friends, terminal illness, coming of age, children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Over-imaginative 12 year-old Sam heads off to the woods to summer scout camp with his pack convinced that he will encounter a monster...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, perverse, slasher ...
Plot:
woods, summer camp, boy scout, boy, feral child, child, evil child, bully, youth, trap, dog, child protagonist ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
flanders, belgium, france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The second in-name-only sequel to the first Meatballs summer camp movie sets us at Camp Sasquash where the owner Giddy tries to keep his camp open after it's threatened with foreclosure after Hershey, the militant owner of Camp Patton located ...
Style:
humorous, raunchy comedy, teen sex comedy, realistic, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
summer camp, teenager, rivalry, buddies, friendly alien, male nudity, alien, nerd, boxing match, supernatural power, teenage boy, camp counselor ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1987, a group of counselors accidentally unleash a decades' old evil on the last night of summer camp.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological horror, mystical, slasher horror ...
Plot:
summer camp, monster, supernatural, witch, evil, supernatural horror, paranormal phenomena, satire, paranormal, paranormal activity, mysticism, woods ...
Time:
80s
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