A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she has recorded her deepest thoughts and fantasies.

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

1953

French

7.3

♡ 10

Jacques Tati Director

André Dino as Hotel Guest

Lucien Frégis as Hotel Proprietor

Jacques Tati as Monsieur Hulot

Édouard Francomme as Restaurant Patron

Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.

Psycho Beach Party

2000

English

6.1

♡ 16

54%

Robert Lee King Director

Michael Manasseri as Boy

Jenica Bergere as Cookie

Reggie Lee as Dancer

Amy Adams as Marvel Ann

Chicklet is a sixteen-year old tomboy who's desperate to be part of the in-crowd of Malibu beach surfers. She's the typical American girl - except for one little problem: her personality is split into more slices than a pepperoni pizza.

Submergence

2017

English

5.4

♡ 57

22%

31%

Action

africa

based on novel or book

Wim Wenders Director

Alicia Vikander as Danielle Flinders

James McAvoy as James More

Thibaut Evrard as René

Godehard Giese as Wolfgang

While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.

Sahara

2005

English

6.1

♡ 61

37%

53%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Breck Eisner Director

William H. Macy as Admiral Jim Sandecker

Steve Zahn as Al Giordino

Matthew McConaughey as Dirk Pitt

Penélope Cruz as Eva Rojas

Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.

Under the Sand

2000

French

7.0

♡ 17

93%

husband wife relationship

Mystery

sadness

François Ozon Director

Alexandra Stewart as Amanda

Bruno Cremer as Jean Drillon

Charlotte Rampling as Marie Drillon

Fabienne Luchetti as Pharmacist

When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

Ava

2017

French

♡ 6

97%

Léa Mysius Director

Nolan Dos Santos as Doublure Inès

Thiméo Méric Guarese as Doublure Inès

Mila Cheuzzi as Inès

Laure Calamy as Maud

Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run...

The Beach House

2019

English

5.3

♡ 27

81%

Jeffrey A. Brown Director

Liana Liberato as Emily

Maryann Nagel as Jane

Jake Weber as Mitch

Noah Le Gros as Randall

A romantic getaway for two troubled college sweethearts turns into a struggle for survival when unexpected guests – and the surrounding environment – exhibit signs of a mysterious infection.

A Summer's Tale

1996

French

7.6

♡ 26

98%

Éric Rohmer Director

Melvil Poupaud as Gaspard

Franck Cabot-David as Le cousin

Amanda Langlet as Margot

Gwenaëlle Simon as Solène

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends—and flirts heavily with—two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

My Uncle

2016

Japanese

6.3

♡ 2

beach

Comedy

uncle nephew relationship

Nobuhiro Yamashita Director

Shinobu Terajima as

Ryûhei Matsuda as

Erika Toda as

Yôko Maki as Eri

Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.

When the Whales Came

1989

English

6.2

♡ 1

60%

83%

Action

based on children's book

Clive Rees Director

Dexter Fletcher as Big Tim

Helen Mirren as Clemmie Jenkins

David Threlfall as Jack Jenkins

John Hallam as Treve Pender

A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.

Malibooty!

2003

English

3.1

♡ 2

Barry Bowles Director

Denyce Lawton as Beautiful Girl on Beach

Brian White as Marco

Mari Morrow as Miranda

Sticky Fingaz as Raymond

Three friends in need of an escape from reality take a hilarious road trip to Malibu for a wild beach party.

My Life in Ruins

2009

English

5.9

♡ 9

10%

Donald Petrie Director

Ian Gomez as Hotel Clerk

Richard Dreyfuss as Irv

Brian Palermo as Marc

Ian Ogilvy as Mr. Tullen

A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.

A Wild Stream

2018

Spanish

6.6

♡ 2

Nuria Ibañez Director

Chilo and Omar seem to be the only two men on earth. They live on a solitary beach and their constant activity is fishing to survive. Their friendship, surrounded by sensuality, becomes a kind of a love story. Through their conversations and their relationship, the film explores and portraits human condition.

Come Undone

2000

French

6.7

♡ 9

79%

relationship problems

Romance

southern france

summer vacation

Sébastien Lifshitz Director

Salim Kechiouche as

Valérie Donzelli as (as Valerie Donzelli)

Anne-Sophie Bozon as Figurant

Jérémie Elkaïm as Mathieu

Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy 18-year-old Mathieu is on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning himself at the beach, until he spies the handsome Cédric and falls in love.

Drillbit Taylor

2008

English

5.7

♡ 39

26%

parent child relationship

prison

Steven Brill Director

Vincent Laresca as Fence

Katie Gill as Hot Girl

Leslie Mann as Lisa

Kevin Hart as Pawn Shop Employee

Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them, not realizing he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.