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Movies: Best "surfing" Movies

Surf movies fall into three distinct genres: The surfing documentary — targeting the surfing enthusiast.The 1960s beach party films — targeting the broader community.Fictional feature films with a focus on the reality of surfing. ()
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Point Break(1991)

R
| 2h 2min | Action, Thriller, Crime
3.6/5 (with 1,519 votes)

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow - With Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty, John C. McGinley, James LeGros, ...
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Barbie in A Mermaid Tale(2010)

G
| 1h 15min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 321 votes)

Barbie stars as Merliah, a surfer who learns a shocking secret: she's a mermaid! She and her dolphin friend set out for an undersea adventure to rescue her mother, the queen of Oceana.

Directed by Adam Wood
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Ride Your Wave(2019)

1h 35min | Animation, Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 128 votes)

Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love. Just as they become inseparable, Minato loses his life in an accident at sea. Hinako is so distraught that she can no longer even look at the ocean, but one day she sings a song that reminds her of their time together, and Minato appears in the water. From then on, she can summon him in any watery surface as soon as she sings their song, but can the two really remain together forever? And what is the real reason for Minato's sudden reappearance?

Directed by Masaaki Yuasa

Top Secret!(1984)

PG
| 1h 30min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 492 votes)

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.

Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker - With Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, Jeremy Kemp, ...
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Rip Tide(2017)

NR
| 1h 25min | Kids & Family, Drama
3.1/5 (with 215 votes)

There comes a point in everyone’s life when you have to make a decision about the direction you’re going to take. For newly-18 American fashion model Cora, that time is now. She’s moved to an Australian coastal town to be with her favourite aunt, after a 'fashion faux pas’ back home.

Directed by Rhiannon Bannenberg - With Debby Ryan, Naomi Sequeira, Aaron Jeffery
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Chasing Mavericks(2012)

PG
| 1h 57min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 246 votes)

Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

Directed by Curtis Hanson, Michael Apted - With Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue, Abigail Spencer, Leven Rambin, Taylor Handley, Jonny Weston, ...
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Big Wednesday(1978)

PG
| 2h | Drama, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 76 votes)

Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.

Directed by John Milius - With Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Lee Purcell, Darrell Fetty, Patti D'Arbanville, ...
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Johnny Tsunami(1999)

G
| 1h 28min | Kids & Family, TV Movie, Drama
2.9/5 (with 59 votes)

A Hawaiian teenage surfer shows off his skills when he takes to the snow slopes in Vermont.

Directed by Steve Boyum - With Brandon Baker, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Mary Page Keller, Yuji Okumoto, Lee Thompson Young, Cylk Cozart, ...
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A Scene at the Sea(1991)

1h 41min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 70 votes)

The lives of a young, hearing-impaired and gloomy couple are fulfilled after the boy holds interest in surfboarding.

Directed by Takeshi Kitano - With Claude Maki, Susumu Terajima

The Tribes of Palos Verdes(2017)

R
| 1h 44min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 33 votes)

When the situation at her idyllic Palos Verdes home turns volatile, young Medina attempts to surf her way to happiness.

Directed by Brendan Malloy, Emmett Malloy - With Stephanie, Cody Fern, Jennifer Garner, Justin Kirk, Noah Silver, Alex Neustaedter, ...
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Shelter(2007)

R
| 1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 220 votes)

Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach suddenly finds himself drawn into a relationship he didn't expect.

Directed by Jonah Markowitz - With Trevor Wright, Brad Rowe, Tina Holmes, Ross Thomas, Jackson Wurth, Matt Bushell, ...

Blue Crush(2002)

PG-13
| 1h 44min | Adventure, Romance / Love, Drama
3.0/5 (with 231 votes)

Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters competition. Having transplanted herself to Hawaii with no one's blessing but her own, Anne Marie finds all she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene - until pro quarterback Matt Tollman comes along...

Directed by John Stockwell - With Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, Matthew Davis, Sanoe Lake, Mika Boorem, Bruce Irons, ...
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Breath(2017)

1h 55min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 32 votes)

A pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.

Directed by Simon Baker - With Elizabeth Debicki, Simon Baker, Richard Roxburgh
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Open Graves(2009)

R
| 1h 28min | Horror, Thriller
2.4/5 (with 47 votes)

One day, Jason finds an unusual board game called Mamba. When his surfer friends start to play, the games unleashes its deadly curse, killing the losers in a gruesome fashion. Supposedly it will grant the winner a wish. As his companions die off, Jason decides that the only way he can reverse the tragedy is by continuing to play. With his girlfriend, Erica, Jason rolls the dice and hopes to make his wish before one of them suffers a horrible fate.

Directed by Álvaro de Armiñán - With Eliza Dushku, Mike Vogel, Naike Rivelli, Ethan Rains, Martxelo Rubio

Ride(2014)

R
| 1h 33min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 61 votes)

A mother travels cross-country to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer.

Directed by Helen Hunt - With Helen Hunt, Brenton Thwaites, Robert Knepper, Luke Wilson, Leonor Varela, Callum Keith Rennie, ...
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Surfer, Dude(2008)

R
| 1h 25min | Comedy
2.3/5 (with 42 votes)

A wave twisting tale of a soul searching surfer experiencing an existential crisis.

Directed by S. R. Bindler - With Matthew McConaughey, Alexie Gilmore, Scott Glenn, Jeffrey Nordling, Willie Nelson, Woody Harrelson, ...

Blue Crush 2(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 53min | Adventure, Drama
3.0/5 (with 46 votes)

Haunted by the memory of her deceased mother, Dana leaves Malibu behind and heads to South Africa to fulfill her mother's dream of surfing Jefferys Bay.

Directed by Mike Elliott - With Sasha Jackson, Sharni Vinson, Gideon Emery
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Surf Ninjas(1993)

PG
| 1h 27min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
2.5/5 (with 58 votes)

Two Asian-American "surfer-dude" brothers discover they are the long lost princes from a China Sea Island. Part of their inheritance includes magically-induced martial arts prowess and seeing the future. Using their new powers, they act to overthrow the island's current dictator, a despotic madman with a metal face!

Directed by Neal Israel - With Ernie Reyes, Rob Schneider, Leslie Nielsen, Neal Israel, Keone Young, Tone Lōc, ...

Krocodylus(2000)

R
| 1h 24min | Comedy, Horror, Action, Thriller
2.4/5 (with 17 votes)

A sleazy producer develops a concept he dubs "blood surfing" -- tossing bloody fish remains into the water to lure sharks and then surfing through the animals as they chomp about. Along with his camerawoman, the producer brings two thrill-seeking surfers to the coast of Florida to capture some gnarly footage. But, as they blood surf, they encounter something even more deadly: a colossal prehistoric crocodile intent on devouring them.

Directed by James Hickox - With Kate Fischer, Duncan Regehr, Joel West, Matt Borlenghi, Óscar Navarro
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Drift(2013)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 59 votes)

In the 70s two brothers battle killer waves, conservative society and ruthless bikers to kick-start the modern surf industry.

Directed by Morgan O'Neill - With Sam Worthington, Xavier Samuel, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Myles Pollard, Robyn Malcolm
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The Endless Summer(1966)

PG
| 1h 31min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 44 votes)

Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they travel the world during California’s winter (which, back in 1965 was off-season for surfing) in search of the perfect wave and ultimately, an endless summer.

Directed by Bruce Brown - With Robert August, Miki Dora
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Blue Juice(1995)

R
| 1h 30min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.0/5 (with 13 votes)

JC is the hero of the Cornish surfing community. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the wave that has carried him through a prolonged adolescence is heading for the rocks as his girlfriend pressures him for commitment and his friends contemplate growing up.

Directed by Carl Prechezer - With Sean Pertwee, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ewan McGregor, Steven Mackintosh, Heathcote Williams, Keith Allen, ...
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Kill Speed(2010)

1h 53min | Crime, Action, Thriller
2.2/5 (with 12 votes)

KILL SPEED is a high-octane, youth oriented, TOP GUN meets FAST & FURIOUS tale about best friends who fly home-built, high-tech planes to deliver Mexican manufactured crystal meth throughout rural California in order to fund their Hollywood, rock-star lifestyle.

Directed by Kim Bass - With Andrew Keegan

Hawaiian Holiday(1937)

G
| 8min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 33 votes)

Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto experience all that Hawaii has to offer. Donald tries hula dancing, Pluto explores the beach and Goofy takes up surfing!

Directed by Ben Sharpsteen
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North Shore(1987)

PG
| 1h 36min | Romance / Love, Action, Drama
2.9/5 (with 19 votes)

On a small stretch of coastline as powerful as a man's will, Rick Kane came to surf the big waves. He found a woman who would show him how to survive, and a challenge unlike any other.

Directed by William Phelps - With Matt Adler, Nia Peeples, Gerry Lopez, John Philbin, Gregory Harrison
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National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer(2009)

1h 27min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 15 votes)

From National Lampoon, the masters of raunchy comedy, comes a summer tale of beers, babes, and bros! In the surf town of Ventura, California, JD's surf board is stolen by a surfer from Los Angeles...a crime that cannot go unpunished. Gathering his friends and the local surf hero, Mike Mooney, they take a road trip to LA to get the surfboard back, then return to Ventura for the wildest summer party ever!

Directed by Sam Pillsbury - With Jim Piddock
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Flirting with Forty(2008)

PG
| 1h 27min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
2.7/5 (with 24 votes)

A divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.

Directed by Mikael Salomon - With Heather Locklear, Robert Buckley, Vanessa Estelle Williams, Cameron Bancroft, Chelah Horsdal, Stefanie von Pfetten, ...
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Surf School(2006)

1h 23min | Comedy
1.6/5 (with 13 votes)

A rag-tag bunch of seniors, complete outsiders at their surf-crazed Laguna Beach High School, decide to crash the biggest team surf contest. In order to prevail, however, they must do one important thing...learn to surf! We're taking your classic Cinderella story into the world of surfing, complete with hi-jinx and the aesthetic beauty of surf mecca Costa Rica, our spectacular set location.

Directed by Joel Silverman - With Corey Sevier
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Step Into Liquid(2003)

PG-13
| 1h 27min | Documentary, Drama
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

No special effects. No stuntmen. No stereotypes. No other feeling comes close. Surfers and secret spots from around the world are profiled in this documentary.

Directed by Dana Brown
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Muscle Beach Party(1964)

1h 34min | Comedy, Music
2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.

Directed by William Asher - With Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Luciana Paluzzi, John Ashley, Don Rickles
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