Movies Like The Summer I Found Myself

If you liked The Summer I Found Myself (2025), a movie directed by Justin F. Lee, 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.

1
Wet Hot American Summer (2001)
★ 6.2/10
It's the last day of Camp Firewood's season, but there's still time for the big talent show, a little romance… and for everyone to be wiped out by the piece of NASA's Skylab that's hurtling toward Earth.
2
Taps (1981)
★ 6.7/10
Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
3
Camp Nowhere (1994)
★ 6/10
Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are…
4
Meatballs (1979)
★ 5.8/10
Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has…
5
Camp Rock (2008)
★ 6.4/10
When Mitchie gets a chance to attend Camp Rock, her life takes an unpredictable twist, and she learns just how important it is to be true to yourself.
6
Little Darlings (1980)
★ 6.5/10
Two 15-year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
7
Heavyweights (1995)
★ 6.2/10
Camp Hope is a summer retreat for overweight boys run by a kindly couple who make the campers feel comfortable with their extra pounds. But when tyrannical fitness guru Tony buys the camp, he puts the kids on a cruel…
8
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
★ 7/10
Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an…
9
Bunks (2013)
★ 6.3/10
When two trouble-making brothers scam their way into an idyllic summer camp, they find themselves leading a rag tag cabin of boys into breaking every rule in the book.
10
Stripes (1981)
★ 6.6/10
Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, enlists in the U.S. Army with his close pal, Russell Ziskey. After his barely satisfactory performance in basic…
11
The Parent Trap (1961)
★ 7/10
Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with…
12
The Last Summer (2019)
★ 6/10
Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.
13
Theater Camp (2023)
★ 6.4/10
After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.
14
Hot Shots! (1991)
★ 6.6/10
The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to…
15
Police Academy (1984)
★ 6.7/10
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy…
16
Camp Rock 3 (2026)
★ 6.5/10
When pop group Connect 3 returns to Camp Rock to search for an opening act for their reunion tour, rising tensions and fierce competition among campers test old friendships and spark unexpected romances.
17
Eating Out: Drama Camp (2011)
★ 5.8/10
Zack and Casey's relationship is in a slump, but things are about to change at Dick Dickey's Drama Camp. Zack meets gorgeous Benji, and when they get cast as lovers in a sexed-up version of The Taming of the Shrew…
18
Major Payne (1995)
★ 6.5/10
Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine, he has no idea what to do as a civilian…
19
Dangerous Minds (1995)
★ 7/10
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to…
20
Biloxi Blues (1988)
★ 6.3/10
A Jewish teenager sets three goals: lose his virginity, become a writer, and survive World War II.