Apocalypse Now (1979), The Biggest Little Farm (2018), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Beaches of Agnès (2008), Riding Giants (2004), Shelter (2007), Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001), Despicable Me (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Surfing movies.
Storyline: This time Zucker and Abrahams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, a handsome American 50s-style rock and roll singer. While performing in East Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.
Plot Keywords: reverse footage, cow, spoof, rock star, plane, gunfight, firing squad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a place far, far away, illegal genetic experiment #626 is detected: Ruthless scientist Dr. Jumba Jookiba has created a strong, intelligent, nearly indestructible and aggressive being with only one known weakness: The high density of his body makes it impossible for the experiment to swim in water. The scientist is sentenced to jail by the Grand Council of the Galactic Federation. The experiment is supposed to be transported to a prison asteroid, yet manages to escape Captain Gantu, who was supposed to deliver him there. With a stolen police cruiser (the red one), the destructive being races towards a little and already doomed planet: Earth. Stranded on Hawaii, experiment #626 can't actually do much harm: water all around, no big cities and two well-equipped representatives of the Galactic Federation already following close behind to catch him again. But Dr. Jookiba and the Earth expert Pleakley never could have guessed that earth girl Lilo adopts the experiment as dog, gives him ...
Plot Keywords: hawaii, cross dressing, interspecies friendship, self sacrifice, sister sister relationship, animal shelter, disney ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The inspirational true story of real life surfing phenomenon Jay Moriarity. When 15 year old Jay discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, is not only real, but exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it. As Jay and Frosty embark on their quest to accomplish the impossible, they form a unique friendship that transforms both their lives, and their quest to tame Mavericks becomes about far more than surfing.
Plot Keywords: bare chested male, death of wife, absent father, father son relationship, mother son relationship, year 1987, two word title ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend.
Plot Keywords: fight, cake, bus, broken window, black eye, bicycle, beer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Peter is a composer and a likable sad sack who's devastated when his girlfriend of five years, Sarah Marshall, the star of a cheesy CSI-style crime show, dumps him. He weeps, he rails, he mopes. Finally, his step-brother Brian suggests a vacation, so Peter heads for a resort on Oahu where, as he's checking in, he sees Sarah and her new beau, Aldous, a perverse English rocker. The weeping and moping start again, until Peter is rescued by Rachel, a thoughtful hotel clerk who invites him to a luau and to hang out. Although he constantly runs into Sarah and Aldous, Peter starts to come alive again. Will Sarah realize what she's lost, and what about Rachel?
Plot Keywords: hawaii, no panties, penis, cheating on girlfriend, female nudity, sex scene, masturbation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 13 year-old Bethany Hamilton is a champion surfer who was born to be in the water. But after a fun night out night surfing and what should be a fun day in the water, she is attacked by a shark and loses her arm. Rushed to the hospital, she remains calm, and maintains her faith in God. Now she has to re-learn how to do everything with only one arm - including how to surf. It will take her friends, family, and her Christian faith to get her back into the water, but if that is where she is meant to be, she will find a way to get there.
Plot Keywords: shark, hawaii, based on autobiography, christian film, surfing, christian, surfer ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: singing, sunglasses, casino, slot machine, argument, suitcase, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend, Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby, with a group of willing and unwilling participants in a small Florida town. In the midst of their plotting, they find themselves contemplating with the possible aftermath of what could happen.
Plot Keywords: cruelty, male frontal nudity, male nudity, blow job, oral sex in a car, based on true story, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Early in the morning three surfers draw out to sea to brave the waves. On the road they get an accident. The nineteen-year-old Simon Limbres is transported to the hospital in a comatose state, where the doctor finds that his brain is dead. He is kept alive by machines. His parents must quickly make a difficult decision about possible organ donation.—Dimitri Dimos
Plot Keywords: car crash, hospital, doctor, death, flashback, kiss, girlfriend ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The cynical and skeptical writer Mike Enslin writes books evaluating supernatural phenomena in hotels, graveyards and other haunted places, usually debunking the mystery. While writing his latest book, he travels from Los Angeles to New York to spend one night in the Dolphin Hotel's posessed room 1408, which is permanently unavailable for guests. The reluctant manager Mr. Gerald Olin objects to his request and offers an upgrade, expensive booze and finally relates the death of more than fifty guests over decades in the cursed room. However Mike threatens Mr. Olin, promising to sue the hotel, and is finally allowed to check into the room. Later in the night, he finds that guests of room 1408, once they have checked in, might never leave the room alive.
Plot Keywords: paranormal phenomena, death of daughter, self sacrifice, writer, hotel, haunting, hotel room ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled intimacy and access, ALL THIS PANIC is a feature length documentary that takes an intimate look at the interior lives of a group of teenage girls as they come of age in Brooklyn. A potent mix of vivid portraiture and vérité, we follow the girls as they navigate the ephemeral and fleeting transition between childhood and adulthood.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: three word title, teen angst, beach, handheld camera, lesbian, title directed by female, 2010s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.
Plot Keywords: gang, violence, police shootout, female frontal nudity, pubic hair, m 16, shotgun ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This story follows a teenage rock hopper penguin named Cody Maverick from his hometown of Shiverpool, Antarctica, where all of the other penguins think he's nothing but a surfing fool, to the "Big Z Memorial Surf Off" on Pen Gu Island. Young Cody is determined to win the most important competition in the world of penguin surfing in honor of "Big Z," a deceased surfing legend whom he has idolized since childhood. But the waves in Pen Gu are different than in Shiverpool, and the competition is steep. The current champ, egotistical Tank Evans, isn't just about to let this little penguin knock him from first place without a fight. When Cody wipes out and encounters Geek, a recluse aging former surfer, living in the jungle, he learns some important lessons about life and surfing, and even teaches Geek a thing or two.
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, surfboard, ukulele, whale, lifeguard, rescue from drowning, single mother ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on Tim Winton's award-winning and international bestselling novel set in mid-70s coastal Australia. Two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer who pushes them to take risks that will have a lasting and profound impact on their lives.—See PIctures and Gran Via Productions
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, australia, friendship, extramarital affair, plastic bag, school dance, dog ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggy. She's fascinated of his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf. Soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggy.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: summer, title spoken by character, character name in title, based on novel, teenager, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
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