Summer Love: top 10 movies that celebrate summer romance

What's sweeter than a summer romance? This movie list has it all: beaches, camp, and hot, steamy kisses when the sun goes down.
Let us know in the comments what your favourite summer love movies are!

Southside With You
Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side.
Writer, Director: Richard Tanne
Stars: Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway

Dirty Dancing
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
Director: Emile Ardolino
Writer: Eleanor Bergstein
Stars: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach

Call Me By Your Nme
In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writers: James Ivory (screenplay by), André Aciman (based on the novel by)
Stars: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg

Gidget
A young girl discovers surfing and love (in that order) during one transitive summer.
Director: Paul Wendkos
Writers: Gabrielle Upton (screenplay), Frederick Kohner (novel)
Stars: Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson

Say Anything
A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.
Writer, Director: Cameron Crowe
Stars: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney

Moonrise Kingdom
A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.
Director: Wes Anderson
Writers: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
Stars: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Bob Balaban,
Lucas Hedges, Harvey Keitel

Roman Holiday
A bored & sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American journalist in Rome.
Director: William Wyler
Writers: Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton, Dalton Trumbo
Stars: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Gregory Peck informed the producers that, as Hepburn was certainly going to win an Oscar (for this, her first major role), they had better put her name above the title. They did and she did. The Embassy Ball sequence featured real Italian nobility, who all donated their salaries to charity. The use of the Italian Vespa 2-stroke scooter kindled interest in the vehicle. Paramount Studios presented Hepburn with her entire wardrobe from the film, including hats, shoes, bags & jewelry as wedding presents. Soon after production, Hepburn ended her engagement.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Devastated Peter takes a Hawaiian vacation in order to deal with the recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know, Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex - and she's bringing her new boyfriend.
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Writer: Jason Segel
Stars: Kristen Bell, Jason Segel, Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Mila Kunis, Bill Hader, Russell Brand, Billy Baldwin, Jason Bateman, Jack McBrayer, June Diane Raphael

My Girl
A young girl, on the threshold of her teen years, finds her life turning upside down after spending the summer with a new friend.
Director: Howard Zieff
Writer: Laurice Elehwany
Stars: Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis
The willow tree that is seen is not a willow tree. Due to issues finding a perfect pond with a willow tree by it, the creators had to find a different tree, remove its branches & replace them with fake willow tree branches.

500 Days of Summer
An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her.
Director: Marc Webb
Writers: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
Stars: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Minka Kelly, Chloë Grace Moretz, Yvette Nicole Brown
The film's blue color scheme was done to bring out Zooey Deschanel's eyes. During the office party, Summer & Tom get into a conversation about the validity of love and Summer makes a reference to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. Her line, when the idea for Tom to sing comes up, is, "I nominate young Werther here." On the screens where the numbers of the days in the relationship are shown, the coloring & mood of the background art change to reflect the status of the relationship. Good days are brighter & bad days are darker. Tom repeatedly associates the Patrick Swayze song She's Like the Wind with Summer which was originally recorded for Dirty Dancing, in which Jennifer Grey starred as the "she" that Swayze is singing about. Clark Gregg, who plays Tom's boss, married Jennifer Grey. The Adult film that Tom & Summer rent called Sweet and Shower is fictional & doesn't actually exist. When Tom's fixing his hair after a night with Summer, instead of Tom's reflection a young Harrison Ford is seen as Han Solo winking back.