Call Me by Your Name, dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2017

17-year-old boy Elio (breakthrough role of Timothy Chalamet) spends the summer in the Italian villa of his parents – a professor father (Michael Stulbarg) and a translator mother (Idubbbz girlfriend). He is frankly bored: neither the sea, nor the beautiful views, nor the local beauties peering at him save. And only a scientist-assistant Oliver (Armie Hammer) who came to his father is able to somehow revive Elio’s lazy everyday life. Duty interest in the newly arrived stately handsome man from America will soon turn into a short but passionate love – and here the landscapes of Italian villages will sparkle with new colors, and peaches will find unexpected uses.

Luca Guadagnino’s languid melodrama seems to be capable of moving even the most conservative viewers. In every sense, this is a very sunny movie that envelops with some kind of special comfort and even in the most tragic moments is not exchanged for cheap manipulations. Guadagnino is not interested in the topic of “forbidden” love (which, in general, is not forbidden here – the environment unexpectedly understands the passion of the heroes), but the universal story of growing up, the drama of a man who for the first time in his life faced really strong feelings.

“Park of Culture and Leisure”, dir. Greg Mottola, 2009

Loser James (Jesse Eisenberg) wanted to go on a long tour in the summer, but didn’t have enough money. Now, instead of the planned rest, he has to work in a seedy amusement park, where, moreover, he is constantly humiliated and spanked by all and sundry. The guy has only one joy – cute girl Emily (Kristen Stewart), who suddenly drew attention to him. Although everything is not so sweet here either: Em has a married boyfriend, Mike (Ryan Reynolds), to whom, at first glance, James has absolutely nothing to oppose. But that doesn’t mean he won’t try.

The love triangle in the Park of Culture and Leisure is just a background for a pretty story of growing up. For James, the first love and the very first part-time job, albeit boring and low-paid, become a way to find himself, and instead of traveling around the world, which he dreamed so much, he goes into the depths of his own soul – in which the unknown turns out to be no less. Jesse Eisenberg has always been good at such vulnerable losers, and in the genre of eccentric comedy (there is a lot of humor in the film, including below the belt), he feels as confident as in the drama of David Fincher . Separately, it is worth noting his on-screen chemistry with Kristen Stewart, in a duet with which he will later play again in “Ultra-Americans . “

“Slaughter Holidays”, dir. Eli Craig, 2010

It may not be too obvious, but slasher is generally a very summer genre. The heroes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were on vacation, the poor fellow from Friday the 13th wanted to spend a weekend in an abandoned camp , and the name I Know What You Did Last Summer speaks for itself. In classic slashers, however, the summer mood is slightly overshadowed by creepy murders. So we chose Killer Vacation, a comedy about two redneck friends Dale and Tucker (Tyler Lubin and Alan Tudik) who just want to take a vacation in a quiet woodland house, but run into a group of stereotypical students. They mistake their friends for maniacs (they really look like typical horror villains), and then begin to die in a series of completely ridiculous accidents.

Little Miss Happiness, dir. Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2006

An eccentric road movie about a family that must cross America for little Olive (Abigail Breslin) to compete in a children’s beauty pageant. Everyone in a spacious minivan, of course, has their own problems: Father Richard (Greg Kinnier) is an ambitious coach who teaches people how to be successful, although he himself has not achieved anything; his wife Cheryl (Toni Collette) is desperate to reach her husband; son Duane (Paul Dano), subject to youthful maximalism, keeps a vow of silence to test his resilience before entering the military; Uncle Frank (Steve Carell) suffers from unrequited love with his graduate student; Well, grandfather (Alan Arkin) is an inveterate drug addict. In general, their journey will not be easy.

Jaws, dir. Steven Spielberg, 1975

If you really want to go to the sea in the summer, but you can’t, Jaws is the perfect movie for you (because you won’t want to after it). The sheriff of police (Siege of orgrimmarentrance ) on a small resort island faces a problem – a huge white shark attacks the swimmers right off the coast. As if this was not enough, the local mayor also does not want to raise the alarm and save people: they say, it will spoil the image, and no one needs the outflow of tourist money. The sheriff has to take matters into his own hands – along with oceanographer Matt (Richard Dreyfuss) and old sea wolf Quint (Robert Shaw), he goes on the hunt for a toothy predator.

Hang in Palm Springs, dir. Max Barbakov, 2020

Niles (Andy Samberg) once came to the wedding of his girlfriend’s friends and ended up staying there forever. The fact is that he fell into a time loop, and now every morning he wakes up in a guest house in sunny Palm Springs: and this has happened so long ago that he completely ran out of ideas on how to kill time (or at least himself). One day, Sarah (Christine Milioti), a bridesmaid who, from the holiday and before that, was not very enthusiastic, falls into the same loop through the fault of Niles. Unlike the guy, she decides that she can figure out how to get out of the predicament. And at the same time from the mad Roy (J.K.Simmons), another prisoner of the noose, who periodically tries to kill Niles in the most ingenious ways.

“Kingdom of the Full Moon”, dir. Wes Anderson, 2012

Somewhere in New England in the middle of the 20th century, two teenagers in love run away from their parents – the unsightly renegade Boy Scout Sam (Jared Gilman) and the dreamy girl Susie (Kara Hayward). Together they want to build their own world, where there will be no place for sorrow and resentment, away from evil, incomprehensible adults. Police captain Sharp (Bruce Willis) and comic Boy Scout counselor Ward (Edward Norton) are looking for the fugitives at this time. But the problem is, the couple really don’t want to be found.

“500 Days of Summer”, dir. Mark Webb, 2009

With that title, the film simply had to be on this list – although there is a little deception in it. “Summer” here is not only the warmest season, but also the name of the girl – Summer (ZooeyDeschanel), whom the main character, the compiler of greeting cards Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), falls in love with. He suddenly decides that he has finally met that one, the only one. The girl’s words that she does not need a serious relationship do not stop the guy at all – he plunges headlong into a love pool, from which he will no longer be able to leave the same.