Quick, pack your bags and slather on your sunscreen, because the clock is ticking on the summer of 2025. With less than a month to go until another school year begins, this is your last chance to make an escape before the responsibilities of steady September insist on being met.

But if you’ve already maxed out your vacation days (or your vacation budget or your vacation energy), you can still sneak in one last getaway without spending all the time, money, and effort involved in taking an actual trip. Get out of town from the comfort of your own home with these movies and shows all about going away for a while. Choose between an artful film about teenagers on a summer adventure, a pair of twin titles about vacationing in middle age with friends, or a docuseries that crosses oceans and generations with multiple seasons of family travel. Now go set your streaming itinerary, and bon voyage!

But first, what’s new on Netflix?

A return to Nevermore. Wednesday, created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, is here again with Season 2, Part 1, which sees Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams heading back to school for a deliciously creepy new adventure. Too woeful for you? Try falling for Love Life, the rom-com anthology series created by Sam Boyd that documents one character’s (Anna Kendrick in Season 1 and William Jackson Harper in Season 2) entire romantic history. Both seasons of the HBO Max series, which premiered in 2020, are now streaming. Not loving it? Maybe this will steal your attention: Mark Lewis’s new documentary Stolen: Heist of the Century investigates the infamous 2003 heist of Antwerp’s Diamond Center. 

If you have just a night … 

Hit the road. In Alfonso Cuarón’s 2001 coming-of-age dramedy Y Tu Mamá También, two teenage best friends (Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna) impulsively invite an older woman (Maribel Verdú) to drive with them from Mexico City to a mythical beach. When she unexpectedly accepts their offer, the three embark on the trip of a lifetime. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the sexy, surprising film now ranks as a modern classic. 

If you have a whole day … 

Don’t stop at summer vacation. Move through the whole calendar — twice! — with a spin of the 2025 series The Four Seasons, created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, as well as Alan Alda’s 1981 film of the same name, which inspired the show. Both comedies follow a group of friends (with casts including Fey, Will Forte, Steve Carell, and Colman Domingo in 2025 and Alda, Carol Burnett, and Len Cariou in 1981) who take quarterly vacations with each other over the course of one year, depicting the changing dynamics and personal evolutions that happen among them.  

If you have the entire weekend … 

Make it a family affair. Across five seasons and four continents, comedian Jack Whitehall and his father, Michael, serve up international father-son hilarity in the travel docuseries Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father. Originally airing from 2017–2021, the series follows the pair of witty Brits as they explore Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the American West, and more, and — as is so often the case when traveling with family — the further they go, the closer they get. 

Don’t forget, you have one last chance … 

To lease it. Ballers, the HBO sports dramedy created by Stephen Levinson, stars Dwayne Johnson as an NFL player who pivots to managing other athletes after an injury forces him into early retirement. Next week, all five seasons will retire, too.