110 Summer Movies

Happy 1st day of Summer! I wanted to share with you something my husband and I have been putting together for some time. When we were young and broke, we would make a summer movie list and go check movies out at the library. It was fun to see what we could find and maybe even share with each other movies we haven’t seen. Over time, the written list would get lost and rewritten until one year I finally put it on my computer for safe-keeping.

This list is cut and pasted from my master list. I add to it as time passes and more movies are made. It is also movie specific, so loved TV shows are not on here like, The Lake or Stranger Things.

We each have movies we love, Levi must watch Field of Dreams each Spring, and for me, The Parent Trap (1961).

So enjoy the list, hopefully you find some inspiration! While many can be purchased online, if you want to save a few dollars, support your local library and see if they have any there. Our library has a wonderful selection of older movies to choose from! Enjoy!

1.       The Parent Trap

2.       Sandlot

3.       My Girl/My Girl 2

4.       Friday the 13th

5.       Dazed & Confused

6.       Swiss Family Robinson

7.       Bull Durham

8.       She’s All That

9.       Caddy shack

10.   I know what you did last summer

11.   Jaws

12.   Independence Day

13.   The Great Outdoors

14.   National Lampoon’s Vacation

15.   Dirty Dancing

16.   Summer School

17.   Indian Summer

18.   Under the Tuscan Sun

19.   Wet Hot American Summer

20.   Troop Beverly Hills

21.   Grumpier Old Men

22.   Inventing the Abbotts

23.   The Notebook

24.   Safe Haven

25.   Overboard

26.   The Graduate

27.   Summer Catch

28.   A League of their Own

29.   Stand By Me

30.   American Graffiti

31.   Before Sunrise

32.   Dog Day Afternoon

33.   Now & Then

34.   Weekend at Bernies

35.   Goodies

36.   Grease

37.   Top Gun

38.   Summer Rental

39.   Mystic Pizza

40.   Point Break

41.   Blue Crush

42.   Bottle shock

43.   Bad News Bears

44.   Bad Boys

45.   Cool Hand Luke

46.   Castaway

47.   Deliverance

48.   Field of Dreams

49.   For the Love of the Game

50.   The Outsiders

51.   Major League/2

52.   Rookie of the Year

53.   Matilda

54.   Sideways

55.   Transformers

56.   The Babe

57.   The Natural

58.   Eight Men Out

59.   Fear Street

60.   American Pie/2

61.   Camp Nowhere

62.   Sleepaway Camp

63.   Meatballs

64.   Heavyweights

65.   Little Darlings

66.   Poison Ivy

67.   ET

68.   Cabin in the Woods

69.   IT

70.   Moonrise Kingdom

71.   The Final Girls

72.   Make a Wish (1937)

73.   Forrest Gump

74.   The Lost Boys

75.   The Burbs

76.   To Kill a Mockingbird

77.   50 First Dates

78.   To Gillian on her 37th Birthday

79.   My Father the Hero

80.   Joe vs the Volcano

81.   French Kiss

82.   Only You

83.   Blue Lagoon

84.   Fool’s Gold

85.   Failure to Launch

86.   Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

87.   The Birdcage

88.   Spanglish

89.   The Descendants

90.   The African Queen

91.   Key Largo

92.   Muscle Beach Party

93.   Bikini Beach

94.   Beach Blanket Bingo

95.   Beach Party

96.   Beaches

97.   Ace Ventura/2

98.   The Mummy/2

99.   The Legend of Billie Jean

100.                       Medicine Man

101.                       Pirates of the Caribbean

102.                       Hope Floats

103.                       The Odd Couple

104.                       True Lies

105.                       The Help

106.                       Tin Cup

107.                       Legend of Bagger Vance

108.                       Thelma & Louise

109.                       Summer Rental

110.                       Barbie