Movies Like The Hottest Summer
If you liked The Hottest Summer (2023), a comedy and romance movie directed by Matteo Pilati, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Star Maker (1995)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceIn 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 wants to change her life and falls for…
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Somebody to Love (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also romance and comedyOn a first date in Rome, the inner voices of recently separated Piero and furniture restorer Lara speak aloud, exposing the true thoughts and anxieties hidden behind their conversation.
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Golden Door (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceThe 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 mother. Before they embark, they meet…
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Diva Futura (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceIn 1980s - 1990s Italy, Riccardo Schicchi’s agency Diva Futura turns free love into porn, making stars of Ilona Staller, Moana Pozzi and others known around the world. Their fame leads to Cicciolina’s election and…
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Call Me by Your Name (2017)
★ 8.1/10Also romance and dramaIn 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-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver…
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Stealing Beauty (1996)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceLucy 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 and exchanged a kiss with an Italian…
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Don't Move (2004)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceWhile waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and passion for Italia, a simple woman from slums in the periphery of the…
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Fire with Fire (1986)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceA 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, they must fight the prison…
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Voicemails for Isabelle (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also romance and comedyA young woman's hilariously confessional voicemails to her late sister are unknowingly redirected to a stranger, who begins to fall in love from afar.
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The Best Years (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also romance and dramaItaly from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.
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Once Around (1991)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaA struggling woman finds unexpected love with a charismatic older salesman at a real estate seminar. Their passionate relationship clashes with the values of her family, particularly her father.
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Boccaccio '70 (1962)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and romanceAn anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife…
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A Bigger Splash (2015)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceAn American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover and his teenage daughter to visit, which leads to jealousy and dangerous sexual scenarios.
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Why Did I Get Married Again? (2026)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and romanceThe couples reunite for the destination wedding of Marcus and Angela's daughter, bringing drama old and new as they ask, "Why did we get married again?"
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The Last Summer (2019)
★ 6/10Also romance and comedyStanding on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.
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Caterina in the Big City (2003)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaWhen her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships…
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Love in the Villa (2022)
★ 6/10Also romance and comedyA young woman takes a trip to romantic Verona, Italy, after a breakup, only to find that the villa she reserved was double-booked, and she'll have to share her vacation with a cynical British man.
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Who's That Knocking at My Door (1968)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceA Catholic New Yorker falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her, but he struggles to accept her past and what it means for their future.
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To Rome with Love (2012)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and romanceFour tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a…
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The Best You Can (2025)
★ 7/10Also comedy and romanceCynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside…