The best Summer films, TV & books

A small goat with big dreams gets one shot to compete in a fierce, high-intensity co-ed full-contact sport.

In 1939, 13-year-old Marie spends summer near Avignon and falls for a young doctor who prefers her mother.

Two fathers and their teenage daughters on the topless beaches of Saint-Tropez talk marriage and parenthood.

Young Simba grows up in the Pride Lands while his uncle Scar conspires to seize the throne through betrayal.

Through 12-year-old Renato's adoring eyes, wartime Sicily reveals beauty as both gift and burden.

Moana answers a call from her ancestors and sails with Maui into dangerous, long-lost waters of Oceania.

Three British teenage girls head to a rites-of-passage holiday that should be the best summer of their lives.

After witnessing a highway crash, a couple realises a demonic presence followed them from the scene.

High school students navigate love, friendship, drugs, trauma, and social media with unflinching intensity.

A boy's disappearance drags a small town into secret experiments and terrifying supernatural forces.

A family comedy tracing the early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.

Guests and staff at an exclusive tropical resort watch a darker complexity emerge day by day over one week.

Belly turns sixteen at the Fishers' beach house; relationships fracture and painful truths come out.

A close-knit group of teenagers navigate friendship, love, and loss from high school through college.

Twins Dipper and Mabel spend summer running a tourist trap in Gravity Falls, Oregon — a genuinely mysterious town.

Otis teams up with Maeve to run an underground sex-therapy clinic at school, with awkward results.

Seven children's summer friendships are targeted by an evil entity that exploits their deepest fears.

It's summer vacation and everyone's outside — except Greg Heffley, who'd rather stay indoors.

In 1983, 17-year-old Elio meets Oliver, a doctoral student staying at his family's villa in Lombardy.

A Gothic novel in which four children are hidden away by their mother, far from sunlight or freedom.

Ralph S. Mouse runs away from home on his motorcycle in search of adventure beyond familiar walls.

Ten-year-old Jody's ownership of a red pony on his father's ranch teaches him about life and death.

Books one through five follow a girl into the world of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series.

A Harvard freshman in the early 1990s begins a correspondence with a Hungarian mathematics student, unsettling her sense of self.