12/05/2025
With summer in the air, I couldn’t help but put together a little list of 10 films that spark the feeling of sun-dappled daydreams….
Save this list for your next golden-hour watch… 📖☀️
Which have you seen?! 🫶
1. The Secret Garden (1993)
A tale of hidden magic, grief, and blooming friendships. Set in the English countryside, it’s the perfect film for anyone who believes in the healing power of nature and a good mystery behind a locked door.
2. Little Women (2019)
Greta Gerwig’s adaptation glows with sisterhood, ambition, and golden light. It feels like reading your favourite novel on a porch swing in late summer, heart bursting with nostalgia and hope.
3. Call Me By Your Name (2017)
A slow, sun-soaked ache of a film. Peaches, books, first love and long afternoons, it’s as if summer itself had a heartbeat.
4. Amélie (2001)
A whimsical Parisian fairytale full of magical realism and tiny joys. It feels like finding a forgotten love letter in a secondhand bookshop and deciding to change someone’s life.
5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Still, burning, exquisite. A painter and her subject fall in love in silence and stolen glances. Like poetry in motion, draped in seaside cliffs and candlelight.
6. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
A haunting, sun-bleached dream. Victorian schoolgirls vanish into the Australian wilderness, and reality starts to shimmer like heat on stone. Beautiful, eerie, unforgettable.
7. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
A pastel-drenched, scout-badge-wearing, first-kiss-on-the-beach kind of adventure. Wes Anderson at his most nostalgic, with young love and stormy weather rolling in.
8. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
A gentle embrace of a film. Childhood, countryside, and friendly spirits with leafy umbrellas. It’s like curling up in a sun patch with a picture book and nowhere to be.
9. Atonement (2007)
Green dresses, typewriter keys, misunderstandings and heartache. A sweeping drama with a devastating twist, wrapped in beauty and longing.
10. Big Fish (2003)
A tall tale of love, loss, and legacy. Magic peeks in through every crack of this Southern gothic story, as a son unravels the truth behind his father’s larger-than-life stories.
