Earth Songs (2012), Riding Giants (2004), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Endless Summer (1966), The Endless Summer II (1994), Sons of the Desert (1933), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Point Break (1991) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Hawaii movies.
Storyline: Action sports documentary that follows the industry's best big wave surfers as they travel the world searching for the largest waves that nature has to offer. The journey spanned 18 months, 6 continents and produced up to 70 foot waves.
Plot Keywords: surfer, athlete, thrilling, incredible, intense, ocean, california ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "High Water" is an action-packed adventure centered around surfing's Triple Crown competitions,the professional surfing tour's final three competitions held each year on the North Shore of Oahu. Starting on Halloween and ending around Christmas, it attracts the sport's best surfers to the legendary North Shore, known for its huge waves and unparalleled surf. The Triple Crown is the ultimate proving ground for world class surfers, but the events also lure amateurs, surfers young and old, and hopefuls to the North Shore; where population, tension and commerce swell during the competition. Real life drama, humor, death-defying waves, rivalries, parties, heart-break, romance, injuries, and humanity all collide during the nearly two month competition on Hawaii's "7 Mile Miracle". The film will follow multiple story lines over the course of the entire competition and will rely upon Dana Brown's unique ability to take cinematic events and populate them with heroes and everyday people to construct a moving story.—Chris Purse
Plot Keywords: director, martin scorsese, filmmaker, engaging, well, hawaii, contest ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Henry Roth lives in a Hawaiian paradise with the company of endless women with no strings attached. This is until he meets Lucy Whitmore. Both Henry and Lucy enjoy the company of each other and feel the start of a serious relationship occurring. Approaching Lucy the next day, Henry is confused when Lucy fails to recognize him. This is the moment Henry discovers that Lucy actually suffers from short term memory loss and can't remember each individual day. Henry won't let this stop him and is prepared to make her fall in love with him all over again, each and every day.
Plot Keywords: marine biologist, playboy, friend, stoner, girlfriend, father, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Reverend Abner Hale (Max Von Sydow), a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley (Dame Julie Andrews) and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding, there comes tragedy.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: minister, wife, native, ex-lover, sailor, emotional, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in the early '40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Mamie settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life. Though her prospects look good when she falls in love with a science-fiction writer who treats her with the respect she deserves, the dawning war and the fallacies of her previous lifestyle complicate their budding romance. Mamie cannot fully remove herself from her former profession, and provides some of her old services to the sailors stationed in town. Searching for another means of financial security, Mamie invests in several pieces of real estate and becomes quite wealthy, though her bad reputation has not been forgotten by the locals.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: prostitute, writer, friend, manager, sailor, emotional, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of 16-year-old Riyo who journeys to Hawaii in 1918 to marry a man she has never met, except through photographs and letters they have exchanged. Hoping to escape a troubled past and to start anew, Riyo is bitterly disappointed upon her arrival: her husband is twice her age and Hawaii is not the paradise she expected. As Riyo comes to terms with her new home, she discovers a land full of hardship, struggle--and unexpected joy.—<raq@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, friend, boss, spokeswoman, engaging, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney head to the tropical islands of Hawaii. While journeying through the paradisaical countryside the couple encounters Kale and Cleo, two disgruntled hitchhikers and Nick and Gina, two wild but well-meaning spirits who help guide them through the lush jungles. The picturesque waterfalls and scenic mountainsides quickly give way to terror when Cliff and Cydney learn of a grisly murder that occurred nearby and realize that they're being followed by chance acquaintances that suspiciously fit the description of the killers.
Plot Keywords: newlywed, wife, man, woman, killer, creepy, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.—Martin H. Booda <booda@datasync.com>
Plot Keywords: naval officer, lieutenant, submarine officer, woman, girlfriend, japanese soldier, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Catherine is a black widow. "She mates and then she kills". Black Widow is the story of a lady (Catherine) who marries lonely millionaires, waits until they've changed their will to leave all to their beloved wives and then murders them to inherit the fortune. With each man Catherine marries, she changes her appearance to suit the mans personality. Only there's one problem. Alexandra is a smart cookie and has found a link between these unexplained mysterious deaths and the partners wives. But now her only problem is proving that a killer is on the loose and saving herself from the deadly Black Widow.—Michael Feller <reb@magna.com.au>
Plot Keywords: black widow, murderer, femme fatale, federal agent, serial killer, millionaire, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing detective. The two soon develop a shipboard romance. Will Sam be able to bring Kay back to the States and likely imprisonment?—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: detective, womanizer, sister, woman, suspect, victim, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A dramatization of Mark Chapman's plan to murder John Lennon.
Plot Keywords: mother, wife, assassin, creepy, disturbing, new york city, central park ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A timeless tale that takes place against the backdrop of the segregated coffee fields in 1920s Hawaii - a coming-of-age journey about a young man who transcends the boundaries of race and class in pursuit of a forbidden love.
Plot Keywords: man, woman, doctor, engaging, emotional, powerful, hawaii ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The intertwined lives of two kindred souls with ambition begins when Captain Whip Hoxworth discovers that Nyuk Tsin has been smuggled aboard as part of cargo on The Carthaginian, which he captains, a cargo supposed to consist of only male Chinese workers bound for Hawaii. Nyuk Tsin was kidnapped from her Haaka village to be sold to a Honolulu brothel. She is spared when Mun Ki claims she is his wife, and Hoxworth goes along with his wife's suggestion that they can work in the Hoxworth household as domestic servants. Nyuk Tsin becomes known to all as Wu Chow's Auntie (Aunt of Five Continents) when her five sons are named after continents (with Mun Ki's wife in China regarded as their official mother). Whip founds an empire in pineapples, using Japanese laborers, after smuggling his first seed crop from French Guiana as Wu Chow's Auntie grows a family business in Honolulu around her sons.—Brian Greenhalgh
Plot Keywords: plantation owner, laborer, wife, mistress, engineer, queen, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pearl Harbor is a classic tale of romance set during a war that complicates everything. It all starts when childhood friends Rafe and Danny become Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn, a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and he and Evelyn and Rafe hook up. Then Rafe volunteers to go fight in Britain, and Evelyn and Danny get transferred to Pearl Harbor. While Rafe is off fighting, suddenly one morning comes the air raid we now know as "Pearl Harbor."
Plot Keywords: pilot, pretty woman, friend, franklin delano roosevelt, nurse, military officer, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Larry Donner is an author and writing professor who tutors people that want to write books. Larry's life has become a misery when his ex-wife Margaret has published a book he wrote under her name and has gotten rich over it. Owen Lift, one of Larry's students, offers Larry to kill Margaret, and in return Owen, wants Larry to kill his horrible mother. Larry thinks it's a joke, until he learns Owen killed his ex-wife. And Larry has now become the prime suspect.
Plot Keywords: teacher, student, mother, ex-wife, girlfriend, author, hilarious ...
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