Teen Beach Movie (2013), Adventures in Wild California (2000), Riding Giants (2004), The Endless Summer (1966), Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001), The Endless Summer II (1994), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), Point Break (1991) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Surfing movies.
Storyline: Two brothers and their surfing buddies face new challenges and adventures over the course of a memorable summer.
Plot Keywords: youth, coming of age, surfing, family, friendship, brotherhood, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: STORM SURFERS 3D is an epic, character-driven adventure documentary following two best friends on their quest to hunt down and ride the biggest and most dangerous waves in Australia. Aussie tow-surfing legend Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time world champion Tom Carroll enlist the help of surf forecaster Ben Matson and together they track and chase giant storms across the Great Southern Ocean. Braving enormous waves, freezing conditions and near-death experiences, the film follows all of Ross, Tom and Ben's adventures over the 2011 winter big-wave season, all in stunning 3D. Along the way they join forces with big wave chargers Paul Morgan, Mark Mathews and Paul 'Antman' Paterson to conquer waves in Western Australia, on the east coast and in Tasmania, with a special appearance by the greatest surfer of all time, Kelly Slater. The holy grail for this team of big wave hunters is to discover and ride new waves that have never been surfed. This year, Ross, Tom and Ben get the chance of a lifetime when they embark on the biggest and most dangerous mission of their lives to a wave that has never been ridden, 75km from land.—Production
Plot Keywords: surfing, extreme sports, documentary, ocean, australia, adventure, nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: With a name like Hoops McCann, he's bound to get that basketball scholarship after high school, right? Wrong! What Hoops really wants to do is write and illustrate a love story. To help him find his way, his friend George invites Hoops to come with him and his sister to spend the summer on Nantucket. The friends Crazy Summer begins when they pickup Cassandra on the way--she's being chased by a motorcycle gang. From here on in, it only gets crazier. Once on the island, Hoops and George, along with George's island friends the Stork twins and Ack-Ack (son of a marine), must help Cassandra save her grandfather's house from the greedy Beckersted Family. Along the way, Hoops must find a way to write his cartoon love story - and maybe a real one of his own.
Plot Keywords: comedy, teen, adventure, romance, summer, friendship, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mitchell Goosen is a California teenager who loves to surf and rollerblade. When his zoologist parents are given a grant to work in Australia, they can't take Mitchell so they send him to Cincinnati, Ohio to stay with his aunt, uncle, and cousin Wiley--who will be his roommate for the next six months. At his new school Mitchell gets on the bad side of the high-school hockey players, so he and Wiley endure weeks of torture from them. Until they all must learn to get along and team up to beat the Central High School rivals in a competition down the Devil's Backbone.—Meagan Olds<morning_star_s_darkmist@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, comedy, sports, teen, surfing, brotherhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the taut thriller The Shallows, when Nancy (Blake Lively) is surfing on a secluded beach, she finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of Nancy's ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.
Plot Keywords: thriller, survival, shark, horror, ocean, isolation, tension ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Spoof of 1960s Beach Party/Gidget surfing movies mixed with slasher horror films. Florence Forrest, a not-so-innocent girl in 1960s Malibu, becomes "Chicklet", the first girl surfer at Malibu Beach. Only Florence suffers from dissociative identity disorder and, occasionally, her alter ego "Ann Bowman", a sexually aggressive, foul-speaking girl, comes out, during which time several beach goers are found murdered. The suspects include Chicklet herself, surfer Kanaka, exchange student Lars, and even Chicklet's own mother.—Matthew Patay
Plot Keywords: comedy, horror, beach, surfing, teen, cult, parody ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chad Gates (Elvis Presley) has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surfboard, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend. His father wants him to go to work at the Great Southern Hawaiian Fruit Company, but he is reluctant. So he goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.—Pat McCurry <ccgrad97@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, elvis presley, song and dance, love, beach ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: New York tourist Tony Curtis falls asleep on a Southern California beach on his first night in the West and wakes up to The New Phantasmagoria--catamarans, surfers (including a dog), bodybuilders, acrobats, motorcycle chicken races, a nut fishing in the shallows . . . and Sharon Tate as a skydiver named Malibu who gives Curtis the rapture of artificial respiration when he is conked on the head by a flying surfboard. This is the '60s American Dream: youth and beauty and money and sex in Southern California. Go west, all men.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, beach, 1960s, american film, surfing, light comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of friends go to Hawaii in order to practice surfing, their favorite sport. But this is not all they do there - they also find love...—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: surfing, beach, youth, adventure, romance, competition, sports ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Francine (Gidget) is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggie" is home from College. When he suggests she go for it, she's even more in panic - doesn't he care to be with her? So she sets out for Hawaii in the worst mood. On the plane she meets the sociable Abby, who gives her the advice to forget about Jeff - and regrets it shortly after, when Francine follows the advice and steals her boyfriend Eddie, a famous dancer. But then Jeff discovers he's missing Francine...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: teen, comedy, beach, surfing, romance, music, dance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A law student transplanted to Southern California, Monroe Clark (C. Thomas Howell) serves eviction papers to Zack Barnes (Peter Horton), a former volleyball star. When Barnes learns that Monroe is a recreational player, he offers a few pointers. Monroe and his teammate, Wiley (Christopher Rydell), plan to compete in an upcoming tournament. But when Wiley is injured, Monroe partners with Zack. They're underdogs in a tough field of competitors, but Monroe and Zack feel they're up to the challenge.
Plot Keywords: sports, youth, comedy, inspirational, beach, california, competition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the Mason family moves to idyllic Palos Verdes, Calif., the father, Phil, loves it but the mother, Sandy, feels out of place among the fake tans and tennis skirts. Phil and Sandy's daughter, Medina, is a loner and outcast at school, while her charismatic brother, Jim, is effortlessly popular. When Medina and Jim take up surfing, they must prove their right to share the waves with the tough Bayboys gang that monopolizes their stretch of beach.
Plot Keywords: family, coming of age, drama, teen, surfing, california, divorce ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The first of the five official American-International "Beach Party" movies. Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones. Look for Big Daddy's surprise cameo.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, youth, beach, dance, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A romantically hapless young man (Scott) has his life changed when he finds the proverbial genie-in-a-bottle, in this case a very comely lass (Jeannie). With Jeannie granting wishes left and right, Scott soon has a fine house, a wonderful car, and a chance to impress the girl of his dreams. But is this the way to true happiness?—Rick Munoz <rick.munoz@his.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, teen, beach, summer, romance, adventure, american movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In God's Hands is the story of big wave riders that go all over the globe searching to ride bigger and bigger waves. The story mostly follows Shane Dorian and his obsession with surfing. It also follows how they train for waves like that.—<SurferChick@alloymail.com>
Plot Keywords: sports, surfing, adventure, drama, travel, ocean, extreme sports ...
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