Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman, and The Rolling Stones in Gimme Shelter (1970)

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in Twilight (2008)

John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Monty Python in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Sunshine through lush foliage, rustling breezes, cicadas and crickets, hazy vistas, languid days... I love and search for these films.

Must have: a significant part of the film or at least a critical scene with the "dappled summer" criterion of sunshine amidst greenery.

Usually: filmed in natural daylight, outdoors in nature in the spring or summer, with a soundtrack with field recordings of insects and wind through leaves.

Excludes: urban, dry or treeless settings (no desert, scrubland, grassland, savanna, tundra..) and most beach movies with a few honourable exceptions. Also fiction preferred to documentaries, mainly, and colour to black & white almost always.

Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, and Ulrich Mühe in The Lives of Others (2006)

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sandahl Bergman in Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Oaklee Pendergast, Tom Holland, and Samuel Joslin in The Impossible (2012)

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