Movies Like Summer Villa (2016)

Summer Villa is a 2016 comedy, romance, tv movie film from Pat Kiely with a MovieMagicScore of 6.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Cooking with Love and Just My Type.

Comedy Romance TV Movie

Cooking with Love

2018

Optimistic and cheerful TV producer, Kelly, doesn’t have time for love. Bad boy celebrity chef, Stephen, doesn’t have time for anything besides cooking. Fun with a side of love ensues as Kelly and Stephen are paired on a children's cooking show.

6.4

MagicScore

Just My Type

2020

Pop culture writer and aspiring novelist Vanessa Sills lands the interview of a lifetime with the illustrious, elusive and reclusive mystery author Martin Clayborne in his quaint rural town only to realize her own aspirations, dreams and romantic life have taken a back seat along the way. When Vanessa returns home to Portland and a mysterious gift arrives from Martin, she then makes a surprise decision, and finally takes her own advice to “go boldly in the direction of your dreams and live the life you imagine.”

6.6

MagicScore

Recipe for Love

2014

Lauren Hennessey has always loved to cook and is a proud perfectionist at her job at "Food & Entertainment Magazine's" test kitchen while she dreams of being able to finally afford culinary school in Paris. When her boss offers her a bonus if she agrees to ghostwrite the cookbook of a difficult celebrity chef, Lauren sees her dream becoming a reality as soon as she can tame the notorious bad boy chef in question, Dexter Durant. Slowly peeling back the layers of Dexter's tough-guy persona, she starts seeing a different, vulnerable side to this big-shot chef. Suddenly, their dueling culinary styles become the perfect complement in the kitchen and an attraction between them starts to boil over.

5.9

MagicScore

Afire

2023

Self-important author Leon joins his best friend on a summer holiday near the Baltic Sea to complete his novel. When they arrive, they find their house is already occupied by a carefree woman who challenges Leon to open up. Meanwhile, forest wildfires rage around them and impending disaster looms.

6.8

MagicScore

Tony

2026

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

7.6

MagicScore

You, Me & Tuscany

2026

When a woman crashes at an empty Italian villa, posing as the owner's fiancée, she discovers an unexpected romance that could transform her life.

7.4

MagicScore

Under the Tuscan Sun

2003

After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.

6.9

MagicScore

Come September

1961

Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.

6.8

MagicScore

L'Âge d'or

1930

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

6.7

MagicScore

#10

La Dolce Villa

2025

When his daughter decides to buy a crumbling Tuscan villa, Eric rushes to Italy to talk her out of it — and instead finds beauty, romance and new purpose.

6.3

MagicScore

#11

Love in the Villa

2022

A young woman takes a trip to romantic Verona, Italy, after a breakup, only to find that the villa she reserved was double-booked, and she'll have to share her vacation with a cynical British man.

6.0

MagicScore

#12

To Catch a Thief

1955

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.

7.3

MagicScore

#13

Downton Abbey: A New Era

2022

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to film his latest production at Downton.

7.2

MagicScore

#14

Contempt

1963

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

7.1

MagicScore

#15

5 Sundarikal

2013

Five women, Anikha, Isha, Gauri, Kullante and Aami, undergo life-changing experiences with regard to love.

6.9

MagicScore

#16

Intimate Lighting

1965

A musician and his girlfriend visit an old musician friend of his and his family.

6.6

MagicScore

#17

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

1968

When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...

6.0

MagicScore

#18

The House of Witchcraft

1989

A man discharged from the hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown is taken to a remote Italian villa by his strangely-behaving wife. But he has strong premonitions that the house is possessed by some force of witchcraft, which he has been experiencing in his recurring nightmare.

5.8

MagicScore

#19

We Will Go to Deauville

1962

Comical adventures of two pairs of friends during their stay in Deauville, Normandy.

5.6

MagicScore

#20

Schoolgirl Hitchhikers

1973

Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.

3.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Summer Villa?

The top films similar to Summer Villa by MovieMagicScore are Cooking with Love (6.4), Just My Type (6.6), Recipe for Love (5.9). Each shares comedy/romance/tv movie themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Summer Villa worth watching?

Summer Villa holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.3/10 from 96 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Summer Villa?

Summer Villa (2016) is a comedy, romance, tv movie film directed by Pat Kiely, starring Hilarie Burton, Emorphia Margaritis, Victor Webster.

Where can I find more recommendations like Summer Villa?

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About movies like Summer Villa

This ranked list pairs Summer Villa (2016), a comedy and romance and tv movie film from Pat Kiely, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Hilarie Burton take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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