Night Tide (1961), The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), A Monkey in Winter (1962), A Summer's Tale (1996), Tiger Bay (1959), Quadrophenia (1979), Flashbacks of a Fool (2008), That'll Be the Day (1973) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Seaside Town movies.
Storyline: A sailor (Dennis Hopper) falls in love with a sideshow mermaid (Linda Lawson) who believes she really is a mermaid.
Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, fantasy, film noir, romance, supernatural, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris once month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close... A film whose scenario is much less important than its feeling of euphory, according to the director Jacques Demy.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: musical, french film, romance, dance, color film, 1960s, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife survived the war. They did, and the reformed alcoholic keeps his vow. But times have changed and soon after the war, Albert comes in contact with Gabriel, a young man prone to heavy bouts with the bottle. Gabriel is conflicted over visiting his young daughter in a nearby school and in a moment of nostalgia, Albert takes off with him on one major binge -- and havoc results.—EuropaCorp
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, french film, black and white, 1960s, novel adaptation, alcohol ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While having strong romantic feelings for one woman, a young man finds himself being drawn to a few others.
Plot Keywords: romance, youth, coming of age, french film, summer, beach, love triangle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Gille Jenkins (Hayley Mills), a twelve-year-old tomboy and compulsive liar living in a sordid tenement with her single parent mother, witnesses the murder of an immigrant Polish woman living in an nearby apartment by her former boyfriend, Bronislaus Korchinsky. The young merchant marine becomes distraught when he discovers that she has become the mistress of a married British sports announcer and shoots her with her own gun. Gillie lies about the circumstances in order to keep the gun which she discovers where Korchinsky hid it. She ultimately bonds with him and misleads the police in their investigation.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, british film, black and white, child protagonist, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division. Only when he's together with his friends, a 'Mod' clique, cruising London on his motor-scooter and hearing music such as that of 'The Who' and 'The High Numbers', does he feel free and accepted. However, it's a flight into an illusionary world.
Plot Keywords: musical, youth, rebellion, british culture, identity, 1960s, nostalgia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into an extended flashback to a sea-side town in 1970's Britain. Hollywood star Joe is now a teenage boy in a tentative relationship with a school-girl called Ruth. Further, his mother's friend, Evelyn, is attempting to seduce him. Engulfed by guilt at the unintended, tragic consequences of his subterfuge, he leaves home. The movie then switches back to contemporary Hollywood. Joe confronts his fear and returns to England for a difficult meeting with Ruth, who had gone on to marry Boots and has been a left a poor widow.
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, memory, midlife crisis, self-discovery, hollywood, childhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Abandoned by his father at an early age, Jim MacLaine (David Essex) seems to have inherited the old man's restlessness. Despite his apparent intelligence, Jim decides not to take the exams that would pave his way to university. He lives, for a time, a life consisting of dead-end jobs and meaningless sex, before returning home to work in his mother's shop. But still he can't settle down. He begins to think that the life of a pop musician might be the thing for him.—George S. Davis <mgeorges@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: musical, coming of age, youth, rebellion, 1950s, british film, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A three-tiered story centered on a trio of French tourists visiting the same seaside resort.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, independent film, art film, multi-narrative, female perspective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dark comedy about a seaside Punch and Judy man driven to distraction by his social climbing wife and his hatred for the snobbery of local government. He is persuaded to go to the Mayor's gala evening but it's all too much for him.
Plot Keywords: comedy, british film, 1960s, black and white, seaside town, social satire, marital relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Gymnastics school teacher Caroline Trewella (Glynis Johns) inherits a house on the Cornwall coast. In the basement/smuggler's cave, she discovers mermaid Miranda (Glynis Johns). The young women share a common ancestor and are remarkably alike in looks. While Caroline is away on a bicycling tour, Miranda has fun taking her place on land. With the help of her friend Nurse Carey (Dame Margaret Rutherford), Miranda feigns an injury that keeps her wheelchair-bound... or more often needing to be carried by a man. And the ever flirtatious Miranda certainly knows how to attract all of the men of the village.—L. Hamre
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, fantasy, musical, british film, 1950s, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, vacation, beach, humor, summer, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, coming of age, british film, independent film, mother-daughter relationship, mental health ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An adaptation of Graham Greene's classic novel about a small-town hood who marries a waitress who deduced that he killed a rival thug in order to keep her quiet. As his gang begins to doubt his abilities, the man becomes more desperate and violent.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, film noir, british, violence, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Buff sailor man Popeye arrives in an awkward seaside town called Sweethaven. There he meets Wimpy, a hamburger-loving man; Olive Oyl, the soon-to-be love of his life; and Bluto, a huge, mean pirate who is out to make Sweethaven pay for no good reason. Popeye also discovers his long-lost Pappy in the middle of it all, so with a band of his new friends, Popeye heads off to stop Bluto, and he's got the power of spinach, which Popeye detests, to bust Bluto right in the mush. Watch as Popeye mops the floor with punks in a burger joint, stops a greedy taxman, takes down a champion boxer, and even finds abandoned baby Swee'pea. He's strong to the finish 'cause he eats his spinach.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, fantasy, robin williams, iconic character, humor, song and dance ...
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