Back in the 1950s there was the movie Picnic, based on William Inge's play and directed by Joshua Logan. William Holden plays a drifter stud who comes to a small town on the Fourth of July and electrifies the women! Holden was a bit too old for the role, but it's still a fun film, in a very '50s sort of way. The best scene was him and Kim Novak doing this sexy dance.
I've also seen Picnic at Hanging Rock, an Australian movie directed by Peter Weir. It's about a Victorian girl's school having a picnic on this Australian hill, and several of the girls disappear forever. (The mystery never gets explained.) It's kind of about the repressed sexuality of Victorian times. I particularly remember this shot near the end, of a poster with photos of the missing girls, being worn away by the elements.
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