Summer vacation movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant summer vacation movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, feel good, realistic, semi serious, sexy and humorous films and TV shows about / with summer vacation, summer, coming of age, friendship, teenager, beach, family relations, female nudity, love and holiday plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in France, USA, Italy and other countries.
summer vacation movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as summer vacation: Last Summer (2021), Mektoub, My Love (2017), Dreaming About You (1992), Summer Lovers (1982), Ava (2017), That Special Summer (2007), What Every Frenchwoman Wants (1986), 42plus (2007), Playing with Love (1977), Under the Riccione Sun (2020).

List of summer vacation movies

 6.2
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Last Summer (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story: For Deniz, a 16-year-old teenager, this summer is different from the others. Deniz, who goes to his family's summer house every year, falls in love with a young girl named Aslı. Trying to get closer to Aslı, Deniz realizes that a handsome ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: teenage sex, summer vacation, teenage sexuality, teenage love, unrequited love, summer, love, romantic triangle, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, in love ...
Place: turkey
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Mektoub, My Love (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 181 min.
Story: Enchanted by the many female characters who surround him, Amin, a young screenwriter returning home for the holidays, pursues his philosophical quest while gathering inspiration for his screenplays. But when it comes to love, only destiny, only ...
Style: sexy, sensual, sexual, light, humorous ...
Plot: beach, group of friends, sex scene, summer vacation, female nudity, bisexual girl, restaurant, photograph, unrequited love, naked woman, sex, porn ...
Time: year 1994, year 2017, 90s, 2020s
Place: south of france
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Dreaming About You (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two teenage friends spend their summer break preparing for the sexual conquests they hope to experience. That is, until one of the boys is visited by his older, more sexually aggressive cousin, Azucena. Ushering her naïve cousin into the world of ...
Style: sexy, erotic, hot
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, aunt nephew relationship, sex with a minor, teenage boy, sex scene, summer vacation, cousin cousin relationship, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman younger man relationship, incest, first sexual experience, friendship ...
Place: mexico city
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Summer Lovers (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Michael Pappas and his girlfriend, Cathy, are enjoying the white sand beaches of a Greek island as well as the freewheeling nature of the locals. When Michael meets Lina, who is in Greece from Paris doing archaeological work, he is enamored with the ...
Style: sexy, sex comedy, sexual, romantic, eros ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: polyamory, nudism, naturist, nudity, female nudity, summer vacation, infidelity, greek island, love triangle, public nudity, relationships, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: greece, mediterranean sea, europe
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My Extraordinary Summer With Tess (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: As the youngest of the family, Sam is haunted by the notion that someday he could become the last remaining survivor, all alone. On a family vacation at the beach, he meets the unconventional Tess, who carries her own secrets around with her and ...
Style: captivating, sincere
Audience: kids
Plot: summer vacation, holiday, teenage love, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, search for father, teenager, kids and family, love affair, family relations, teenage life ...
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 6.6
 4K
Ava (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her ...
Style: sexy, captivating, erotic, art house, touching ...
Plot: beach, teenage girl, summer vacation, first love, coping, nudism, female nudity, nightmare, female pubic hair, underage sex, tough girl, coming of age ...
Time: 2010s
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That Special Summer (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The year is 1984. It's summer, and the rebellious 12-year-old girl Kid wants to stay in Gothenburg, but her mother has other plans. Kid discovers that summer vacation in Finland isn't as bad as first feared. In a few hot weeks she ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, independent film
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: sexual awakening, teenage sexuality, teenage girl, coming of age, summer vacation, relationships, couple relations, teenage love, teenage life, family relations, teen romance, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1984, 80s
Place: finland
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Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Third-grader Judy Moody sets out to have the most thrilling summer of her life.
Style: feel good, realistic, not serious, humorous, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: summer vacation, youth, family relations, mischievous children, competition, young heroes, amusement park, escapades, disorder, friendship, female protagonist, girl ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
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What Every Frenchwoman Wants (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Roger is a 16-year-old who seeks to lose his virginity in this softcore erotic drama. His initial efforts are unsuccessful, but World War I breaks out and men are seen marching off to battle. Roger goes overboard when he is presented with several ...
Style: sex comedy, erotic, unusual plot structure, captivating, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: incest, older woman teenage boy sex, sex, erotica, coming of age, brother sister sex, sexual awakening, older woman younger man sex, teenage sexuality, male nudity, masturbation, woman urinating ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: france
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 5.3
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42plus (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When the beautiful, efficient and successful Christine, 42, arrives at their summer beach home with her husband and teenage daughter, a young hitchhiker catches her eye. What follows is the story of a woman who frees herself, tears her life into ...
Style: erotic, realistic, romantic, semi serious, sexy ...
Plot: marital infidelity, relationships, infidelity, married woman, family relations, troubled marriage, adultery, fraud, unfulfillment, lifestyle, social differences, sex scene ...
Place: italy
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Playing with Love (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Laura and Fabrizio have been meeting every summer in the forest by her parent's summer home. Fabrizio is a solitary boy with only his dog for company; Laura a sweet but unconfident child. This summer new aspects enter into their story as both ...
Style: erotic, eros, minimal cast, sexy, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot: underage sex, teenage sex, teenage sexuality, female nudity, love triangle, submission, seduction, teenage girl, lolita, first sex, first love, rape ...
Time: 70s
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Under the Riccione Sun (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: While vacationing on the crowded beaches of Riccione, a group of teenagers becomes fast friends as they grapple with relationship issues and romance.
Style: rom com, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Plot: virgin, blind character, summer vacation, beach volleyball, blindness, best friend, tourist, male objectification, old man, failed expectations, aspiring singer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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The Trip 6 (2021)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Colombia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The last year High School excursion is the walk where anything can happen, but the last year High School excursion with the parents, that is the last straw. And since Álvaro Castaño knows that security is better than the police, he decides to ...
Style: feel good, family comedy, funny, satirical, captivating ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: summer vacation, teenager, parents and children, escapades, mother in law, kids and family, child custody, satire, stalking, beach, domineering father, road trip ...
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 7.2
 10K
Summer of '42 (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: world war two, coming of age, sex, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, summer vacation, older woman younger man, beach house, teenager, war widow, love story, teen angst ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, 20th century, year 1942, 60s ...
Place: california
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Under the Amalfi Sun (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A year after their romance began in Riccione, Vincenzo and Camilla reunite for a vacation on the picturesque Amalfi Coast and put their love to the test.
Style: romantic, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: summer vacation, couples, friend, vacation, love, fall in love, relationships, romantic relationship, love story, love interest, in love, love affair ...
Place: italy
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The Anderssons in Greece (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sune is back! Together with his little brother Håkan Bråkan, big sister Anna, mother Karin and dad Rudolf, Sune embarks on a summer holiday trip to Greece. As every summer before, the family plans to spend their vacation in Myggträsk. Then the ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: summer vacation, vacation, resort, family vacation, nothing goes right, beach resort, family relations, child protagonist, parents and children, siblings relations, young love, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, europe
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Casper and Emma Go Treasure Hunting (2018)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Casper and Emma spends their summer holiday at Emma's family cabin. They find a chest that Emma's grandfather buried on the beach when he was young. It contains a treasure map that will lead them to a hidden treasure.
Style: feel good, captivating, entertaining, funny, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot: summer vacation, treasure hunt, friendship, children, teamwork, hidden treasure, treasure map, escapades, adventurer, treasure chest, treasure hunter, friends ...
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 6.9
 853
Moving On (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A family gathers at grandfather’s place by chance and breaks up. Okju, who has been observing her family for a short time, gains the strength to rise above the loss through this experience.
Style: serious, atmospheric, sincere, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot: summer vacation, family conflict, family relations, brother sister relationship, aunt, siblings relations, life, father son relationship, family drama, sibling relationship, absent mother, troubled teen ...
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An Easy Girl (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Naïma has just turned 16. This summer, she will have to decide what she wants from life if she doesn’t want to miss out. Then her cousin Sofia arrives, with an amazing body and a dangerously seductive lifestyle. Naïma desires only to follow her ...
Style: erotic, controversial, realistic, scenic, melancholic ...
Plot: coming of age, seaside, sea, teenage girl, sex scene, 16 year old, muslim girl, sexy girls, female protagonist, summer vacation, seductress, bare breasts ...
Place: french riviera, south of france
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 7.9
 184K
Before Midnight (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Style: philosophical, cerebral, sexy, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: marriage, summer vacation, writers, hotel room, hotel, midlife crisis, relationships, love story, couple relations, existentialism, hopes, divorce ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 90s, 21st century
Place: greece, mediterranean sea, europe, chicago, paris france ...
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 6.3
 20K
Summer Rental (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, funny, intense ...
Audience: date night, kids, family outing
Plot: sailing, summer vacation, underdog, rivalry, screwball, teenage girl, beach, air traffic controller, summer, friendship, on the road, nothing goes right ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: florida, california
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 5.6
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Voir la Mer (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two brothers live in Montbard, Burgundy. For their summer vacation, they decide to visit their mother in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, because it’s been a long time, because it would make her happy… There’s no shortage of reasons. They buy a second-hand ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, realistic, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: summer vacation, love triangle, on the road, fall in love, friends, introspection, escapades, friendship, sexual relations, lifestyle, road trip, two brothers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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My Family and the Wolf (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When Hugo, a boy who spends his summer vacation with his cousins, discovers that the wolf Rong intends to take his grandmother Sara, he devises a plan to save her.
Style: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: children, friendship, teamwork, family relations, sibling relationship, grandmother grandson relationship, summer vacation, village life, cousin cousin relationship, wolf, satire, child ...
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The Last Summer in La Boyita (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Young Jorgelina feels estranged from her boy-crazy older sister, who has entered adolescence and doesn't want to hang around with little kids anymore. Finding refuge in their Boyita camper-van, Jorgelina travels with her father to the ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, melancholic, suspenseful ...
Plot: friendship, ranch, abused child, coming of age, youth, intersex, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, family relations, countryside, parents and children, teenage life ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: argentina
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 6.2
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Summertime (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A gay couple living in San Francisco takes in two strangers traveling from Italy to start a new life in America, discovering each other and forming the most unlikely of relationships along the way.
Style: unusual plot structure, sincere, contemplative, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: gay couple, gay interest, summer vacation, gay, couples, love, friendship, summer, love and romance, friends, society, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, italy, new york
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 4.6
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Arizona Summer (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two brothers learn about life and grow up during a summer camp vacation.
Style: satirical, captivating, semi serious, feel good, lighthearted ...
Audience: family friendly, teen drama
Plot: youth, summer vacation, summer camp, adventurer, father son relationship, coming of age, children, brothers, adolescence, grownups, satire, teenager ...
Place: arizona
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The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island (2018)
Genre: Animation
Country: USA, China
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The continuing adventures of Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny as they spend the summer on their grandfather's private island.
Style: feel good, entertaining, captivating, light, lighthearted ...
Audience: kids
Plot: children, summer, friendship, summer vacation, family values, siblings, island, group of friends, child, friends, child protagonist, mischievous children ...
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French Fried Vacation (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, cult classic ...
Plot: summer vacation, free love, sexual frustration, sexual freedom, friendship, beach, massage, sexual relations, flirting, friends, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: africa, france
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Run, Broken Yet Brave (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: RUN, is the story of Ashley, a sixteen-year old teenager with a chip on her shoulder. She is sent by her mom to spend a month of her summer holidays with her grandparents on the family farm. While there she develops a love-hate relationship with her ...
Style: captivating, touching, light, psychological, heartfelt ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: summer vacation, troubled teen, indigenous people, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, female protagonist, countryside, native american, farm, family secret, coming of age, redemption ...
Place: canada
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I Hate My Best Friends' Kids (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A month of vacation with friends: difficult to bear the kids of his friends, especially when the methods of education differ and that some prove to be unbearable.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: summer vacation, family relations, coming of age, friendship, motherhood, sex scene, parents, parenthood, vacation, friends, relationships, cohabitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, provence
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