Movies like Beach Party

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Beach Party (1963)
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Beach Party (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 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.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, cult classic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang, teen sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: surfing, beach, beach party, motorcycle, rock and roll, culture clash, summer, surf, young lovers, teenager, dancing, dating, ship, water, boat, fish, anthropologist, wild party, music history, revolutionary war, surfer, music, youth, rock, friends ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 80s, 1960s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, hawaii, new jersey, american

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Most similar movies to Beach Party

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, youth, teenager, friends, beach, couples and dancing mostly in Comedy, Musical and Romance genres. Some movies like Beach Party: Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Bikini Beach (1964), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), Back to the Beach (1987), How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted
Style: funny, retro, hilarious, black and white, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids
Plot: cheerleader, teenager, broadway, love, small town, dancing, theater, dating, turtle, secretary, singer, songwriter ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, washington d.c., new york, columbus ohio
Similarity:
100%
 5.4
 2K
Bikini Beach (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, slapstick, independent film, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beach party, surfing, chase, beach, culture clash, young lovers, teenage life, motorcycle, revolutionary war, wild party, music and dance, rock and roll ...
Time: 60s
Place: california, pacific ocean, new jersey, minnesota, hawaii
Similarity:
100%
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity ...
Style: grindhouse, stylized, psychotronic, funny, independent film ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: beach, surfing, beach party, surf, young lovers, motorcycle, camp, dancing, summer, revolutionary war, music history, rock and roll ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 80s
Place: california, usa
Similarity:
65%
Muscle Beach Party (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: bodybuilding, beach party, beach, surfing, bodybuilder, yacht, muscleman, wild party, revolutionary war, music and dance, rock and roll, best friend ...
Time: 60s
Similarity:
55%
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Back to the Beach (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Cowabunga! The surfing '60s ride into the new wave as Frankie and Annette star in this hip update of their old-time, good-time beach movies. With special appearances by Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Pee-Wee Herman, Jerry Mathers and other familiar ...
Style: spoof, humorous, realistic, not serious, witty ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night
Plot: surfing, beach party, satire, surf, young lovers, storytelling, camp, beach, valet, wild party, dancing, friends ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 50s, 20th century, 60s
Place: california, usa, colorado, los angeles, ohio ...
Similarity:
44%
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.
Style: grindhouse, sexy, independent film, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: surfing, beach, magic, witch, camp, motorcycle, pelican, wild party, rock and roll, satire, youth, couple relations ...
Time: 60s, 80s
Place: tahiti, france, pacific ocean, polynesia, new jersey ...
Similarity:
37%
 5.2
 215
Beach Ball (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.
Style: psychotronic, independent film, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot: rock and roll, surfing, beach party, racing, music and dance, pop music, beach, music festival, silly humor, disorder, friends, buddies ...
Time: 60s
Place: long beach california
Similarity:
31%
From Justin to Kelly (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A lonely, sexually repressed man. A depressed woman. A summer camp. On this fateful night, they will meet... and their hearts will become one.
Style: sexy, humorous, light, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: beach, dancing, music, lifestyle, best friend, youth, dance, vacation, teenager, campus, relationships, young lovers ...
Time: year 2003
Place: usa, miami, florida, pennsylvania, texas ...
Similarity:
30%
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It's a Bikini World (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Male chauvinist Mike attempts to get an intelligent burgeoning feminist Delilah into his harem. When she resists, Mike then poses as his brother Herbert, but in the process falls in love with Delilah.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beach, skateboard, beach party, photographer, swimming, rock music, car wash, surfing, rock and roll, music and dance, volleyball, harem ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: southern california, california
Similarity:
29%
 6.4
 3K
Girl Happy (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Chicago mobster hires a rock and roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Style: retro, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: elvis presley, forbidden love, love, rock and roll, spring break, gangster, nightclub, partner, twentysomething life, showbiz, adolescence vs adulthood, looking for sex ...
Time: 60s
Place: florida, usa, chicago
Similarity:
28%
Under the Boardwalk (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It is the final weekend of summer and a group of Californian teenagers are looking forward to an upcoming surf contest. Rival gangs the 'Vals' and the 'Lowks' are confident that they will take home the trophy, but things become ...
Style: sex comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beach party, surfing, summer romance, shakespeare, skater, exploitation, rivalry, beach, profanity, love and romance, hopes, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, california
Similarity:
28%
 6.4
 10K
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off ...
Style: retro, psychotronic, hilarious, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night
Plot: racing, dancing, rock and roll, elvis presley, gambling, music, auto racing, dance, race, rock, car, casino ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964, 80s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
27%
 5.0
 1K
Pajama Party (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, not serious, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: mars, martian, beach, fashion show, alien, teenager, camp, motorcycle, dancing, alien invasion, motorcycle gang, ufo ...
Time: 60s
Place: new orleans, new jersey, canada
Similarity:
27%
 7.2
 324K
Grease (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
Style: romantic, sexy, feel good, sentimental, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: high school, opposites attract, coming of age, dancing, dance, makeover, summer romance, teenage love, love story, first love, teenager, teenage girl ...
Time: 1950s, year 1959, year 1978, 20th century, year 1958 ...
Place: california, australia, los angeles, bronx new york city, usa ...
Similarity:
27%
 4.5
 768
Malibu Beach (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Day or night, it's a hot and wild summer at Malibu Beach. When the sun is high, it's Dina's (Kim Lankford) job to patrol the area. Being the hot new lifeguard on duty isn't as easy as you'd think -- there's the older, ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, sex comedy, erotic, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beach, swimming, summer, love, erotica, skinny dipping, teenager, beach party, woman in a bikini, lifeguard, surf, surfing ...
Time: 70s
Place: malibu california
Similarity:
26%
 5.2
 950
Ski Party (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Remember the beach movies of the sixties? They're back! Well, not quite, but since Avalon, Hickman, and even Funicello appear in this one, it sure feels right. This time, though, read snow instead of sand and you got it. Ski lodge, to be ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: beach party, ski, snow skiing, olympics, winter olympics, xmas, student athlete, music and dance, rock and roll, skiing, friends, switching roles ...
Time: 60s, year 1965
Place: usa
Similarity:
25%
Shag - More Dancing (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Summer of 1963. Carson is getting married to her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for one last irresponsible weekend.
Style: independent film, sex comedy, retro, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: teenager, beach party, beach, best friend, coming of age, friendship, dancing, runaway, road trip, summer, young lovers, dance contest ...
Time: 60s, year 1989, year 1963, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: south carolina, usa
Similarity:
25%
The Malibu Bikini Shop (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After inheriting a failing bikini shop, two recent grads decide to make a go of it. One, in the hopes of building it into a successful business, the other, in the hopes of getting to look at lots of women in (and out) of swimsuits. As they try more ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, not serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: beach, swimming pool, family life, teenage life, family business, family relations, youth, store, couples, brother brother relationship, party, inheritance ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, venice california, malibu california
Similarity:
25%
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 4.6
 41K
Grease 2 (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's ...
Style: sexy, romantic, cult classic, period piece, retro ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: high school, motorcycle, dancing, teenage girl, love, biker, greaser, opposites attract, secret identity, dance, teenage boy, cheerleader ...
Time: year 1961, year 1982, 60s, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: los angeles
Similarity:
25%
 6.1
 8K
Blue Hawaii (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend.
Style: stylized, intense, melancholic, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night, kids, girls' night, teens
Plot: surfing, beach, elvis presley, dancing, happy ending, tour guide, family business, love and romance, partner, parents and children, fall in love, starting over ...
Time: 60s, year 1961, 20th century, future, 80s
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania, polynesia, honolulu hawaii ...
Similarity:
25%
It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes ...
Style: retro, cult classic, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: elvis presley, rock, passionate kiss, bike, youth, fall in love, gambling, disorder, friends, chase, orphan, starting over ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: seattle, washington state, usa
Similarity:
24%
 5.9
 84K
Rock of Ages (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
Style: sexy, entertaining, feel good, visually appealing, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: rock, teenager, broadway, rock and roll, sex scene, dancing, music, nightclub, love story, fall in love, rock star, musician ...
Time: 80s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
24%
 6.5
 68K
Cry-Baby (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Style: humorous, sentimental, satirical, light, parody ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: rock and roll, gang, forbidden love, youth, satire, music, couples, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, biker, juvenile delinquent, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1954, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: maryland, baltimore, usa
Similarity:
24%
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Frankie and Johnny (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Elvis plays Johnny, a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. Donna Douglas plays Johnny's girl, Frankie. A fortune teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck. Enter a new lady luck played by Nancy Kovack and the cat fight begins.
Style: psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: elvis presley, music, gambling, dancing, boat, twins, love triangle, down on your luck, rock, showbiz, couples, love and romance ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: mississippi, new york, manhattan new york city, louisiana, new orleans ...
Similarity:
24%
Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Francis is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggy" is home from College. When he suggests her to go for it, she's even more in panic - ...
Style: black and white, realistic, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic
Plot: beach, surfing, beach party, dancing, surf, youth, best friend, satire, disorder, family relations, airplane, friends ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: hawaii, california
Similarity:
23%
Teen Beach Movie (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Cowabunga! Catch a perfect wave of fun in the sun, splashed with excitement, surprises and budding romance. Life's a beach for surfers Brady (Ross Lynch) and McKenzie (Maia Mitchell) – until a rogue wave magically transports them inside the ...
Style: teen, humorous, semi serious, feel good, light ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick
Plot: teenage life, teenage love, surfing, teenager, beach, summer, rivalry, getting home, surfer, teen romance, self confidence, disorder ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 2010s, year 1962, 21st century
Place: usa
Similarity:
23%
 4.9
 4K
Spring Break (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two sets of two college guys spend a spring break together in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. There they have lots of fun in and out of the sun.
Style: teen sex comedy, cult classic, raunchy comedy, erotic, sexual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sex, college, voyeur, attraction, teenager, beach, beach party, spring break, drinking, hotel, beer, female nudity ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 21st century
Place: florida, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
23%
 5.6
 3K
Speedway (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.
Style: psychotronic, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: racing, elvis presley, auto racing, car, music, speed, rock and roll, car racing, motor racing, car chase, race, gambling ...
Time: 60s
Similarity:
23%
 6.4
 21K
Valley Girl (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.
Style: feel good, slang, light, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: coming of age, high school, party, teen romance, obsessive love, teenager, friendship, friends, young lovers, dancing, teenage protagonist, female protagonist ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: los angeles, usa, southern california, california, australia
Similarity:
23%
 3.7
 640
Bikini Summer (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of friends are hired to redecorate a beach house while the elderly owners are out of town for the summer. Redecorating is the last thing on their minds, and a wild bikini filled summer is had by all. An imposter-photographer, a bikini ...
Style: sex comedy, sexy, erotic, independent film, not serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: beach, beach party, skinny dipping, erotica, seductive woman, teenager, teenage girl, topless woman, women, surfing, seductive, summer vacation ...
Time: 90s
Similarity:
22%