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10 Best Movies Like A Long Hot Summer

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

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#1
Princess

Princess

2010‱★ 5.8

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

Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945....

#2
August

August

2011‱★ 4.5

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

Summer begins, Aku graduates high school and faces a great emptiness. As his girlfriend, parents and friends all leave the city, it looks to be the dullest summer ever. Everything ...

#3
8 Days to Premiere

8 Days to Premiere

2008‱★ 4.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Long Hot Summer for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A love story set in the world of theater. Romeo and Juliet is to be the season's grand premiere. Noora, the female lead in the play, breaks her leg at the kickoff party, and Laura,...

#4
My Friends Act II

My Friends Act II

1982‱★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Long Hot Summer for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes...

#5
Blue Ruin

Blue Ruin

2014‱★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Long Hot Summer for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds ...

#6
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952‱★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Long Hot Summer for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...