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10 Best Movies Like Hot Summer Nights

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

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#1
Miss Stevens

Miss Stevens

2016★ 6.5

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

Stuck at a crossroads in her personal life, it falls on high school English teacher Miss Stevens to chaperone three of her students — Billy, Margot and Sam — on a weekend trip to a...

#2
Summer School

Summer School

1987★ 6.4

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

A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconvention...

#3
Hotel Belgrade

Hotel Belgrade

2020★ 6.6

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

Pasha, a Serbian womanizer and entertainer, owns a luxurious hotel in Belgrade. He lives carelessly until one day he accidentally breaks a mafia kingpin’s new collectable that is w...

#4
Archenemy

Archenemy

2020★ 5.2

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

Max Fist claims he’s a hero from another dimension who has somehow landed on Earth and been stripped of his powers. Instead of treating him like a powerful champion, no one believe...

#5
Cruise

Cruise

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hot Summer Nights for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Set in the 1980s, a young Italian-American from the wrong side of the tracks falls for a Jewish girl from Long Island....

#6
The Friends At The Margherita Café

The Friends At The Margherita Café

2009★ 5.6

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

Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his ...