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10 Best Movies Like The Hottest Summer

If you loved The Hottest Summer, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Malena

Malena

2000★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Hottest Summer for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. T...

#2
The Star Maker

The Star Maker

1995★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Hottest Summer for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1950s Sicily, con artist Joe Moretti does screen tests for the big studios, accepting money or favours for his efforts. A young illiterate novitiate named Beata desperately want...

#3
Fire with Fire

Fire with Fire

1986★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Hottest Summer for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, ...

#4
Golden Door

Golden Door

2006★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Hottest Summer for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old ...

#5
Stealing Beauty

Stealing Beauty

1996★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Hottest Summer for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier...

#6
Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name

2017★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Hottest Summer for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-...

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