Les Bronzés

A (huge) piece of French culture today. Le Splendid is a theater company that emerged in the 70s. Their first movie, "Les bronzés", adapted from their successful play depicting the adventures of a group of friends in a Club Med vacation camp, quickly became a cult movie. Having seen the movie and knowing at least 10 quotes from it is a requirement for becoming a French citizen (ok, maybe not, but it should be).

The movie was followed by a sequel ("Les bronzés font du ski", same group of friends, this time on a ski vacation in the French Alps), and another cult adaptation of one of the Splendid plays, "Le Père Noël est une ordure" ("Santa Claus is a bastard"). Only Les bronzés seems to have made it to the English-speaking world, under the interesting title "French fried vacation".

27 years after the last movie, the same actors recently reunited to complete the trilogy with "Les Bronzés 3, amis pour la vie" (Friends forever). See the trailer , courtesy of Yahoo! France

Also, see some video clips of classic scenes from the first two movies.