10 films about summer for those who dream of a vacation

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Sunny comedies, melodramas and even crime films are waiting for you.

1. Three plus two

• USSR, 1963.
• Melodrama, comedy.
• Duration: 101 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 5.

Three bosom friends have been resting as savages on the Black Sea coast for many years. But the next outing is spoiled by two strangers, claiming their rights to a tidbit of the beach. Neither side wants to give in, and a fierce war of the sexes begins for a place in the sun.

The film by Henrikh Oganesyan opened Andrei Mironov to Soviet audiences and inspired him for mass rest not on vouchers. By the way, the original play by Sergei Mikhalkov "Savages", in fact, was about people over 30. But Oganesyan specially took younger actors and invited the most beautiful and desirable actresses of Soviet cinema to female roles. And he made the right decision: he got a wonderful vacation picture, which you never tire of reviewing even many years later.

2. Gendarme of Saint-Tropez

• France, Italy, 1964.
• Eccentric comedy, crime.
• Duration: 90 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 2.

Gendarme Louis Cruchot, recently promoted, arrives in the resort town of Saint-Tropez. In a new place, the hero fights a colony of nudists, in parallel searches for a stolen car, but in the end finds something more serious.

Jean Giraud's painting became the first in the franchise about Cruchot and his colleagues. Each of the six films starred everyone's favorite - the French comedian Louis de Funes.

It is believed that the director wrote the script, which exposed the gendarmerie of Saint-Tropez in an awkward light, in revenge. Allegedly, it was in this town that the law enforcement officers stole the director's favorite typewriter (according to another version - a movie camera), but did not admit what they had done. But, if this is true, the retaliation failed: after the success of the film in sunny Saint-Tropez crowds were thrown in by tourists.

3. Mamma MIA

• USA, UK, Germany, 2008.
• Musical, melodrama, comedy.
• Duration: 108 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 4.

Sophie Sheridan is preparing for the wedding and wants to invite her father to the holiday, although she has never seen him. Then she decides to read her mother's diary and finds there a mention of three of her former boyfriends. The girl does not come up with anything better than inviting the whole trinity to the celebration at once.

In the adaptation of the Broadway musical based on the songs of the great group ABBA, literally every frame is saturated with the sun. In short, it's hard to come up with a more summertime movie. In addition, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard, sultry Greece and the turquoise sea have gathered here.

4. Vicky Cristina Barcelona

• Spain, USA, 2008.
• Drama, melodrama, comedy.
• Duration: 96 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 1.

American friends Vicky and Christina are going on vacation to Barcelona. There they both fall in love with the artist Antonio and find themselves in a whirlpool of passions between him and his terribly emotional jealous wife.

The king of intellectual comedies Woody Allen loves the resort genre. So, he has films that celebrate the beauty of Rome ("Roman Adventures") and Paris ("Midnight in Paris"). Right there, the action takes place in one of the most beautiful cities in Spain - Barcelona, and even flavored with romantic mood and summer heat.

5. Kingdom of the full moon

• USA, 2012.
• Tragicomedy.
• Duration: 90 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 8.

Orphan Sam Shikaski is an outcast among his peers. Due to its complex nature, even the adoptive parents abandoned him. One day, the hero escapes from the Boy Scout camp to be with his beloved Susie Bishop. Meanwhile, the children are looking for the police, the girl's relatives and even the scouts.

The perfectionist storyteller Wes Anderson has made visual excellence a part of his writing since the very first painting. "Kingdom of the Full Moon" is one of the finest of his works. And the song Le temps de l'amour by Françoise Hardy, which sounds in the scene on the beach, is now associated with movie fans around the world only with this film.

6. Call me by your name

• Italy, France, USA, Brazil, 2017.
• Drama, melodrama.
• Duration: 132 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 9.

In 1980s Italy, young Elio spends his summer at his parents' villa, driving around the neighborhood, playing the piano, reading and flirting with his friend Marcia. The cloudless existence is disturbed by the arrival of graduate student Oliver. At first, he very annoys the boy, but gradually the hero realizes that he cannot stop thinking about the guest.

Luca Guadagnino's film not only tells one of the most tender and poignant love stories that can only be found in world cinema, but also plunges headlong into the atmosphere of summer Italy. In addition, the picture made Timothy Chalamet famous: if before that not many knew about the young actor, then immediately after the release of Call Me by Your Name, the guy was proclaimed the hope of Hollywood and a new style icon.

7. Hot summer nights

• USA, 2017.
• Drama, melodrama, comedy, crime.
• Duration: 107 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 4.

In 1991, the quiet man Daniel comes to rest for the summer in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Suddenly, he strikes up a friendship with a local bully Hunter, a girl appears and a new occupation - the weed trade.

Debutant Elijah Bynum made a naive but very cheerful and summer film about how a teenager feels when he just tastes adult life. Moreover, it was based on real stories that the director heard when he grew up in a small town. The main role was played by Timothy Chalamet, for whom 2017 was a breakthrough year.

8. Mid 90s

• USA, 2018.
• Drama, comedy.
• Duration: 85 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 4.

Stevie's boy runs away every day from a single mother and abusive older brother to his grown-up skater friends. He amuses them with funny antics, but gradually their meetings cease to be innocent.

The directorial debut of the famous actor Jonah Hill guarantees immersion in the past (especially those who, like the director himself, grew up in the nineties) will be especially pleased. On the set, it got to the point that Hill took gadgets from young actors and in return gave them a tablet with a list of his favorite songs of that time.

9. Hang in Palm Springs

• USA, Hong Kong, 2020.
• Comedy, melodrama, fantasy.
• Duration: 90 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 4.

Niles and Sarah came to Palm Springs to attend the heroine's sister's wedding. It soon turns out that they are both stuck in a time loop and forced to live the same day over and over again.

Max Barbakov's debut is often compared to Groundhog Day. The concept here is about the same, with fiction skillfully mixed with the typical romantic comedy. The audience will enjoy good humor, summer mood and TV stars Andy Samberg (Brooklyn 9-9) and Christine Milioti (How I Met Your Mother).

10. Summer'85

• France, 2020.
• Drama, melodrama.
• Duration: 101 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 9.

Alexis, 16, lives in a coastal French town with his parents. Once, while sailing on a boat in the open sea, the guy gets into a storm, but he is saved by the confident and seductive handsome David. And this acquaintance completely turns the life of an innocent young man.

Director François Ozon has dreamed of filming Aiden Chambers' novel Dance on My Grave for many years. The director associated this book with his own youth. The result is a beautiful picture of a summer resort atmosphere, The Cure's music, tanned young heroes and a heartbreaking love story.