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The Best Way to Walk (1976)
, 1h22Directed by Claude Miller
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Le thème des vacances, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Films about psychiatry, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Patrick Dewaere, Patrick Jean Marie Bouchitté, Christine Pascal, Claude Piéplu, Michel Blanc, Marc Chapiteau
Marc and Philippe are two teenage summer-camp counselors at a vacation camp somewhere in the French country in 1960. Marc is very virile, while Philippe is more reserved. One night, Marc surprises Philippe dressed and made-up like a woman. From now on, he will keep on humiliating Philippe. Despite their late-adolescent rivalries and sexual confusion, each of them achieves some sort of awakening.
The Swimming Pool (1969)
, 2hDirected by Jacques Deray
Origin France
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Psychologie, Le thème des vacances
Actors Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet, Steve Eckhardt
Jean-Paul, a writer and Marianne, his girlfriend of just over two years, are holidaying at a friend's villa. There is a tension in their relationship which excites Marianne: the film begins with a scene in which they are together beside the villa's swimming pool and she urges him to claw her back. He does as she asks, but then throws her into the pool and jumps in after her. In a later scene he takes a branch and uses it to lash her bare buttocks, playfully but with a force that increases as the scene cuts away.
The Beach (2000)
, 1h55Directed by Danny Boyle
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Le thème des vacances, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, Robert Carlyle, Tilda Swinton, Paterson Joseph
Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio), a young American man with a love of world travel, arrives in Bangkok, Thailand in search of adventure. At his guesthouse he briefly meets Daffy (Robert Carlyle), a mentally disturbed Scottish traveler who tells him of a pristine island in the Gulf of Thailand, uninhabited and forbidden, on which there lies a beautiful hidden beach and lagoon - walled in by cliffs and untouched by the tourist industry. He explains in vague terms that he settled there in secret with a group of others, but that difficulties arose and he chose to leave. Later, Richard finds a hand-drawn map showing the island's location left for him; he then enters Daffy's room to find him dead by suicide.
The First Star (2009)
, 1h30Directed by Lucien Jean-Baptiste
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Le thème des vacances, Sports d'hiver, Ski
Actors Firmine Richard, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Anne Consigny, Loreyna Colombo, Michel Jonasz, Gilles Benizio
Jean-Gabriel Élisabeth, d'origine antillaise, marié à une métropolitaine et père de trois enfants, vit à Créteil de petits boulots et passe son temps au bar PMU du coin. Un jour, pour faire plaisir à sa fille, il promet un peu vite à toute la famille de les emmener en vacances au ski. Seul problème : cette fois-ci, s'il ne tient pas sa promesse, sa femme le quitte. Il va devoir faire preuve d'une imagination sans limites pour y parvenir puis affronter un milieu alpin qui lui est peu familier.
Camping Cosmos (1996)
, 1h26Directed by Jan Bucquoy
Origin Belgique
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Le thème des vacances, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Lolo Ferrari, Noël Godin, Arno Hintjens, Jan Decleir, Jan Bucquoy, Claude Semal
On a campsite at the Belgian coast - where everybody wants to live in complete freedom and forget the obligations of everyday life - Jan Bucquoy, the delegate of the Ministry of Culture, must bring culture nearer to the working class. He presents things like Bertolt Brecht's play, Mother Courage and Her Children or an interview with the famous writer Pierre Mertens, but the vacationers at this caravan park are more interested in
The Old Maid (1972)
, 1h25Directed by Jean-Pierre Blanc
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Le thème des vacances
Actors Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Marthe Keller, Édith Scob, Catherine Samie, Michael Lonsdale
Muriel (Annie Girardot) is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. But Muriel finally gets a glimpse of romance when Gabriel (Philippe Noiret) walks into the seaside hotel she is vacationing in. His car has broken down, and he has to stay there for a few days while it is repaired. Hers is the only dinner table with room at it, and Gabriel cannot prevent himself from charming women. She is stiff with him at first, but soon they develop a friendship.
Round Da Way (2009)
, 1h36Directed by Emmanuel Klotz
Origin German
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes La banlieue française, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Le thème des vacances
Actors Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Omar Sy, Fred Testot, Gilles Lellouche, Frédérique Bel
À Condé-sur-Ginette, situé en Seine-Saint-Denis, Tony Merguez et José Frelate, deux potes de banlieue, sont prêts à partir en vacances d'été à Santo Rico, mais se font arnaquer et ne pourront pas passer leur vacances comme ils voulaient, et devront rester à Condé-sur-Ginette. Pour rattraper le coup, Tony va tenter de se faire de l'argent en travaillant pour Zoran, la brute épaisse du quartier. Ce dernier l'engage pour vendre de l'herbe. De son côté, José, hébergé chez sa cousine Jenny, se voit proposer par cette dernière de travailler pour le juge Santiépi, le père de Clémence, en effectuant des travaux dans le manoir de celui-ci. Pendant ce temps, Narbé et Sammy partent en vacances, mais pas à Santo Rico. À l'aéroport, les deux amis sont maîtrisés par les agents de sûreté, puis se retrouvent dans un parc aquatique.
Le Chaud Lapin (1974)
Directed by Pascal Thomas
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Le thème des vacances
Actors Bernard Ménez, Charles Barrois, Daniel Ceccaldi, Brigitte Gruel, Élisa Servier, Clément Thomas
William est un citadin habitué à son métier de conseiller clientèle dans une banque, mais également aux aventures d'un soir faciles et rapidement prolifiques. Sûr de lui, il ne manque jamais une occasion de séduire les demoiselles qui l'entourent. Mais ses retrouvailles avec un vieux copain d'études pris en flagrant délit d'adultère par sa femme, et des vacances aussi imprévues que campagnardes, au cœur d'une famille de quatre sœurs, de leurs conjoints respectifs, de leur ribambelle d'enfants et de quelques autres pièces rapportées, vont le mettre à rude épreuve et faire chavirer ses certitudes sur son pouvoir de séduction.
, 1h30Directed by Djamel Bensalah
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes La banlieue française, Le thème des vacances
Actors Jamel Debbouze, Stéphane Soo Mongo, Lorànt Deutsch, Julien Courbey, Olivia Bonamy, Ludivine Sagnier
Quatre amis de Saint-Denis quittent leur banlieue pour passer trois semaines de vacances à Biarritz gagnées lors d'un concours. Drague, plage et délire vont bon train, mais la bande de jeunes se dissout et commence très lentement à s'ennuyer loin de la cité...
The Gendarme of St. Tropez (1964)
, 1h30Directed by Jean Girault
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller
Themes French war films, Fiction sur la gendarmerie, Naturisme, La provence, Le thème des vacances, The Troops of St. Tropez
Actors Louis de Funès, Guy Grosso, Claude Piéplu, Geneviève Grad, Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre
Ludovic Cruchot (played by Louis de Funès), a gendarme in a small French village, has been re-assigned to the seaside commune of Saint-Tropez under the orders of command sergeant major Gerber (played by Michel Galabru).
Claire's Knee (1970)
, 1h45Directed by Éric Rohmer
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Le thème des vacances
Actors Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Aurora Cornu, Fabrice Luchini, Michèle Montel
The story happens between 29 June and 29 July, presumably in 1970. (Inter-title cards of the dates are displayed before the daily events are shown.)
The Grand Highway (1987)
, 1h44Directed by Jean-Loup Hubert
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Le thème des vacances
Actors Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Antoine Hubert, Christine Pascal, Vanessa Guedj, Pascale Roberts
Louis, a sickly nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she is having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year-old girl next door, and learns from her about life. His subsequent adventures run the gamut from delightful to terrifying, with a little "coming of age" (via a few glimpses of nudity) thrown in. Also animal brutality.
The Blue Lagoon (1980)
, 1h44Directed by Randal Kleiser
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about families, Pregnancy films, Seafaring films, Naturisme, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Le thème des vacances, La sexualité des mineurs, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents, Films about virginity
Actors Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels, Alan Hopgood, Gus Mercurio
In the Victorian period, two young cousins, Richard and Emmeline Lestrange, and a galley cook, Paddy Button (Leo McKern), survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific and reach a lush tropical island. Paddy cares for the small children and forbids them by "law" from going to the other side of the island, as he found evidence of remains of bloody human sacrifices. He also warns them against eating a scarlet berry which is apparently deadly.
The Blue Lagoon (1923)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Naturisme, Transport films, Le thème des vacances
Actors Molly Adair
The Go-Between (1971)
, 1h58Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Le thème des vacances
Actors Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Edward Fox, Dominic Guard, Michael Redgrave
The story follows a young boy named Leo Colston (Dominic Guard), who in the year 1900 is invited by a school friend, Marcus Maudsley (Richard Gibson), to spend the summer holidays at a Norfolk country house occupied by his family. While Leo is there, Marcus is taken sick, and Leo finds himself becoming a messenger (go-between) carrying messages between Marcus's older sister, Marian Maudsley (Julie Christie), and a farmer neighbour, Ted Burgess (Alan Bates) with whom she is secretly in love. However, her parents want her to become engaged to the owner of the house and estate, Hugh, Viscount Trimingham (played by Edward Fox). A heatwave leads to a thunderstorm, which coincides with Leo's birthday party and the climax of the film, when Marion's mother and Leo find Marion and Burgess making love in an outbuilding. This event has a long-lasting impact on Leo, and Burgess shoots himself with his own gun in his farmhouse kitchen.