Hallmark Summer Movies

Travel gives these characters room to reconsider home and love.

Summer Villa poster
2016

Summer Villa

A celebrity chef who is getting over a bad review and a romance novelist who can't seem to get her next book started meet accidentally at a French villa.

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    Summer Villa

    Summer Villa

    2016 · 85 min★ 6.7
    Story setting: RestaurantInternationalParent lead

    A romance novelist struggling to write and a celebrity chef stung by a bad review end up at the same French villa for the summer. The shared stay brings their separate setbacks together.

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    Sailing Into Love

    Sailing Into Love

    2019 · 84 min★ 6.5
    Story setting: Beach TownSmall TownCareer versus family priorities

    Biology teacher Claire is busy juggling her duties as bridesmaid to three friends, as well as teaching a summer enrichment class at her most favorite place in the world: Blue Island.

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    Generation Gap

    Generation Gap

    2008 · 95 min★ 6.5

    A troubled teenager (Alex Black) spends the summer with his grandfather.

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    Summer Love

    Summer Love

    2016 · 83 min★ 6.4
    Story setting: OfficeBig CityBusiness at stake

    A widowed mom gets a summer internship at a tech company and draws the attention of two very different executives while learning about about accounting, app designs and finding love.

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    Summer in the Vineyard

    Summer in the Vineyard

    2017 · 82 min★ 6.2
    Story setting: WineryRural/FarmBusiness at stake

    Winemakers Frankie and Nate prepare to launch a new wine at their town’s biggest summer festival. The event puts their business and relationship under the same pressure.

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    My Summer Prince

    My Summer Prince

    2016 · 87 min★ 6.1
    Story setting: Inn/B&BSmall TownJuly 4th setting

    An aspiring publicist arrives in Greenbriar to manage Prince Colin’s public image. The assignment takes her to the town’s Fourth of July festival, a public event in the story.

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    Just for the Summer

    Just for the Summer

    2020 · 91 min★ 6.1
    Story setting: BakerySmall TownCareer versus family priorities

    Trying to evade the matchmaking efforts of their grandmothers, two former childhood sweethearts pretend to get back together for the summer.

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    Gilded Newport Mysteries: Murder at the Breakers

    Gilded Newport Mysteries: Murder at the Breakers

    2024 · 84 min★ 5.4
    Story setting: OtherResort/Vacation

    It's July 1895 and the New York elite have decamped to Newport, Rhode Island for a summer of balls, garden parties, and yacht races. Covering these events for the women's pages of the Newport Observer is Emma Vanderbilt-Cross, a fearless twenty-one-year-old writer with family ties to the wealthy Vanderbilt family.

About this list

8 movies · Updated 2026-09-26

A summer setting or activity must materially shape the plot. Eligible films follow saved IMDb average rating, highest first.

Summer changes where these characters go and who they meet. A trip, a seasonal job or time beside the water may set a relationship or mystery in motion. This list keeps the season meaningful to the story.

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