The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.

Porcupine Lake

2017

English

5.5

♡ 4

93%

Ingrid Veninger Director

Delphine Roussel as Ally

Lucinda Armstrong Hall as Kate

Mika Amonsen as Nick

Christopher Bolton as Scotty

During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls.

Flipper

1996

English

5.4

♡ 17

30%

Alan Shapiro Director

Chelsea Field as Cathy

Jonathan Banks as Dirk Moran

Elijah Wood as Sandy Ricks

Isaac Hayes as Sheriff Buck Cowan

Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environment until a new friend comes into his life, a dolphin named Flipper, that brings uncle and nephew together and leads Sandy on the summer adventure of a lifetime.

Bergman Island

2021

English

6.6

♡ 22

84%

Mia Hansen-Løve Director

Mia Wasikowska as Amy

Melinda Kinnaman as Berit

Anders Danielsen Lie as Joseph

Tim Roth as Tony

An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.

Leto

2018

Russian

♡ 1

78%

st. petersburg, russia

summer

Kirill Serebrennikov Director

Nikita Efremov as Bob

Irina Starshenbaum as Natasha

Aleksandr Kuznetsov as Skeptic

Yuliya Aug as Tatiana

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

The Lifeguards

2024

English

3.7

♡ 3

Johnny Antonini Director Nykera

Nykera as Brenda

Calvin Chervinko as Jimmy

Ben Logue as Kyle

Marck Kiselevach as Winston

A strict rule following high school senior joins a group of country club lifeguards. He quickly discovers they focus their energy on goofing off and throwing parties. Over the summer, Mike learns to have fun for the first time.

Janet Planet

2023

English

6.1

♡ 4

85%

mother daughter relationship

summer

woman director

Annie Baker Director

Elias Koteas as Avi

Julianne Nicholson as Janet

Sophie Okonedo as Regina

Will Patton as Wayne

In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.

Good Kids

2016

English

6.1

♡ 68

33%

Chris McCoy Director

Virginia Gardner as Emily

Ashley Judd as Gabby

Zoey Deutch as Nora

Julia Garner as Tinsley

Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.

Scenic Route

2013

English

6.4

♡ 15

65%

Kevin Goetz Director

Dan Fogler as Carter

Michael Silva as Conference Businessman

Miracle Laurie as Joanne

Josh Duhamel as Mitchell

Stranded on an isolated desert road, two life-long friends fight for survival as their already strained relationship spirals into knife-wielding madness.

1991

2018

French

7.1

♡ 3

71%

Ricardo Trogi Director

Alex C. Nachi as Arturo

Maurizio Terrazzano as Italian train station intercom attendant

Juliette Gosselin as Marie-Ève Bernard

Roberto Citran as Réceptionniste

Do you remember your first trip? Not the one you made at 5 years old with your parents to the East Coast of the United States. I mean the first time you traveled alone!? The great adventure. In 1991, I was a 21-years-old student. I went to Europe. Not because I wanted to visit all the great capitals, but because I wanted love... I wanted Marie-Ève Bernard.

Testament of Youth

2014

English

7.2

♡ 44

84%

James Kent Director

Emily Bevan as Convalescent Nurse

Taron Egerton as Edward Brittain

Hayley Atwell as Hope

Emily Watson as Mrs. Brittain

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Summer Hours

2008

French

♡ 7

94%

Olivier Assayas Director

Juliette Binoche as Adrienne

Valérie Bonneton as Angela

Sara Martins as Atachée de presse

Edith Scob as Hélène

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.

Dazed and Confused

1993

English

7.6

♡ 95

94%

Richard Linklater Director

Renée Zellweger as Girl in blue pickup truck

Milla Jovovich as Michelle

Ben Affleck as O'Bannion

Matthew McConaughey as Wooderson

The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.

You're Sleeping, Nicole

2014

French

6.9

♡ 5

Stéphane Lafleur Director

Claude Despins as Automobiliste

Juliette Gosselin as Maude Cloutier

Bill Corday as Monsieur Belinski

Marc-André Grondin as Rémi Gagnon

Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, 22-year-old Nicole is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. But when Nicole’s older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls’ friendship is put to the test.

The Quiet Maid

2023

Spanish

6.1

♡ 5

Miguel Faus Director

Ayoub El Hilali as Ahmed

Ariadna Gil as Andrea

Pol Hermoso as Jacobo

Luis Bermejo as Pedro

Ana has just arrived from Colombia and is the maid of a luxurious mansion on the Costa Brava, where a family of wealthy art dealers spends their summers. The young woman works tirelessly and without a contract, under the promise of decent conditions at the end of the summer, if she remains obedient and discreet.

Vacation with Derek

2010

English

6.1

♡ 2

45%

Michael McGowan Director

Richard Leacock as Bernard Blue

Al Sapienza as Doug Dunbarton

John Ralston as George Venturi

Joy Tanner as Nora MacDonald

Derek and Casey are back and continue their hilarious sibling rivalry during a family vacation to visit their grandmother at her beautiful lake front lodge. Things heat up with Casey when she meets Jesse, a handsome young dancer who is a waiter at the lodge. Meanwhile as Derek is "chilling" on his vacation, he falls for Roxy, the rich girl who lives across the lake. But when Roxy's father, a greedy land developer, threatens to destroy the natural beauty around them, the McDonald-Venturi kids band together to save the lake and the lodge.

Dry Summer

1963

Turkish

7.8

♡ 8

85%

Action

cruel

Drama

husband wife relationship

summer

turkey

western

Metin Erksan Director

Adnan Uygur as

Alev Koral as Bahar

Sadettin Erbil as Hasan

Erol Tas as Kocabas Osman

A scheming tobacco farmer sets out to ruin his competition by diverting the local water to his own property.

Scarred Hearts

2016

Romanian

7.1

♡ 5

78%

Radu Jude Director

Sofia Nicolaescu as Child in the train

Ilinca Harnut as Isa

Damian Oancea as Priest

Gabriel Spahiu as Zed

During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the sadness of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.

The Last Summer

2019

English

5.6

♡ 60

33%

William Bindley Director

Gabrielle Anwar as Griffin's Mom

Gage Golightly as Paige

Tyler Posey as Ricky

Jackie Sandler as Tracey

Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.

Summer School

1987

English

6.6

♡ 22

57%

Carl Reiner Director

Carlos Lacamara as Beach Cop

Dean Cameron as Francis 'Chainsaw' Gremp

Beau Starr as Mr. Gremp

Lucy Lee Flippin as Substitute Teacher - Ms. Cura

A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconventional brand of teaching fun field trips begins to connect with them, and even inspires ardor in some.

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