Why cry in the sun when you can sulk in the pool? For the second year running, Zodiac Film Club brings you a programme of summer-set films with a dark side. Escape 2026’s spate of increasingly alarming heatwaves and dive with us into the blue, melancholy depths of sad swimming pool cinema.

Jean-Paul and Marianne are the perfect couple - beautiful, stylish and extremely hot for one another. On an idyllic holiday in St Tropez, their couply dynamic is shattered when Marianne’s ex arrives unannounced with a surprise: the teenage daughter he just found out about. Quelle quartet!

New York Times film critic Richard Brody declared La Piscine a 'faux-hip empty shell of faux modernity,' which, frankly, is just what we’re looking for in the perfect summer watch. It’s true that there are few films more gorgeous than this one. Come to wallow in its sublime shallows - achingly beautiful cast, dreamy setting and slick, stylish sense of doom.