Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Violent Summer

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

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#1
Caught by a Wave

Caught by a Wave

2021★ 6.6

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

A summer fling born under the Sicilian sun quickly develops into a heartbreaking love story that forces a boy and girl to grow up too quickly....

#2
The History of Love

The History of Love

2016★ 6.4

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

The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness....

#3
Le Notti Bianche

Le Notti Bianche

1957★ 7.4

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

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return....

#4
Identification of a Woman

Identification of a Woman

1982★ 5.9

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

Movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him and disappears while search...

#5
Dear John

Dear John

2010★ 6.8

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

While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eve...

#6
Private Peaceful

Private Peaceful

2012★ 6.6

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

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and t...

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