# The best movies to watch in summer

Sun, sea, summer romances and sharks: films that taste of summer, according to Sky TG24, Tom's Hardware and I Soliti Cinefili.

- 44 votes · 14 items
- Jun 12, 2025 · filmbuff_catania
- https://even.best/en/l/4097/the-best-movies-to-watch-in-summer

## Top 10

1. **Call Me by Your Name (2017)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Summer 1983 in the Lombardy countryside, by Luca Guadagnino.
2. **Luca (2021)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Two sea monsters become boys in a Ligurian village.
3. **Stand by Me (1986)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Four friends walking along the tracks, from Stephen King.
4. **Roman Holiday (1953)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck riding a Vespa through Rome.
5. **Mamma Mia! (2008)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — ABBA songs on a Greek island.
6. **Il Sorpasso (1962)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Gassman and Trintignant driving along the coast on the August bank holiday.
7. **Kikujiro (1999)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A boy and a yakuza on the road, by Takeshi Kitano.
8. **Jaws (1975)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — The film that invented the summer blockbuster.
9. **The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Idleness and deceit in 1950s Italy.
10. **Dirty Dancing (1987)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Baby and Johnny at a 1963 holiday resort.
11. **Jurassic Park (1993)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Spielberg's manifesto of summer adventure.
12. **Moonrise Kingdom (2012)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Two twelve-year-olds on the run on a New England island, by Wes Anderson.
13. **Mediterraneo (1991)** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Italian soldiers forgotten on a Greek island; an Oscar for Salvatores.
14. **Sapore di mare (1983)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Holidays in Versilia in the sixties, by Carlo Vanzina.

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