In the film list below, the summer season is the common background to stories and characters very different from one another, with different results. If you love summer-set movies, take note of this Italian-inspired list.

Roman Holiday – William Wyler (1953). Filmed at the Cinecittà studios and on location around Rome during the "Hollywood on the Tiber" era, Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy directed by William Wyler, starring Gregory Peck as a reporter and Audrey Hepburn as a royal princess out to see Rome on her own. Many of Rome’s iconic locations, including the Mouth of Truth, Castel Sant'Angelo, the Trevi Fountain, Piazza di Spagna, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Tiber river and the Via dei Fori Imperiali, are shown in the film as the two protagonists wander around Rome on a Vespa.