Movies like A Swingin' Summer

If you like "A Swingin' Summer" you are looking for psychotronic and independent film movies about / with surfing, rock and roll, dancing, fight, abduction, psychology and rock band themes of Comedy, Musical and Romance genre shot in USA.
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A Swingin' Summer (1965)
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A Swingin' Summer (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Beach party escapade features a bookworm with glasses who learns to "groove", as she attempts to sing "Ready to Groove."
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: surfing, rock and roll, dancing, fight, abduction, psychology, rock band, beach, swimming, singer, theft, robbery, girl, lake, redhead, female singer, cigarette smoking, beach party, coca cola, ford mustang, business deal, fistfight, water skiing, bare chested male, thug ...
Place: southern california

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Most similar movies to A Swingin' Summer

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, psychotronic and semi serious films with plots about beach, love and romance, dancing, singer, music, rock and roll and fall in love mostly in Comedy, Musical and Romance genres. Some movies like A Swingin' Summer: Muscle Beach Party (1964), Beach Party (1963), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), Surf Party (1964), Liceenii Rock 'n' Roll (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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: beach party, bodybuilding, beach, surfing, music and dance, revolutionary war, rock and roll, yacht, friends, rise and fall, rivalry, coming of age ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.7
 2K
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 ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surfing, beach party, beach, motorcycle, rock and roll, culture clash, surf, summer, dancing, teenager, boat, ship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Genre: Comedy, 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 ...
Plot: surfing, beach party, beach, surf, dancing, camp, motorcycle, summer, gay, exploitation, rock and roll, music history ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 4.3
 292
Surf Party (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Arizona youth enjoy sun, surf and music in Malibu, Calif.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: beach, beach party, surfing, surf, rock and roll, surfer, coming of age, teensploitation, bare chested male, gigolo, pier
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Liceenii Rock 'n' Roll (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The adventures of high schoolers, including strict maths teachers, rock 'n' roll music, and first love experiences.
Style: teen sex comedy
Plot: children, pop music, dancing, love, sex scene, walking, teenage sex, high school, rock band, fight, guitarist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: surfing, beach, motorcycle, camp, witch, magic, rock and roll, disorder, couples, wizards and magicians, friends, nothing goes right ...
Time: 60s
Place: tahiti, france, pacific ocean, polynesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary Maggie Williams falls hard for a married newsman named Paul Barton while fighting off the advances of one of his employees. Singer Fran Hobson sets her ...
Style: heartfelt
Plot: american tourist, bare chested male, writers, doctor, airport, secretary, car accident, painting, peeping tom, cigarette smoking, dancing, beach ...
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beach, skateboard, beach party, photographer, rock music, swimming, car wash, volleyball, surfing, music and dance, rock and roll, harem ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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 5.1
 198
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, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: surfing, rock and roll, beach party, racing, music and dance, pop music, beach, music festival, friends, disorder, lifestyle, music band ...
Time: 60s
Place: long beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.1
 7K
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, light, intense, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: surfing, elvis presley, dancing, happy ending, tour guide, family business, love and romance, partner, parents and children, starting over, fall in love, love ...
Time: 60s, year 1961, 20th century
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania, polynesia, honolulu hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Follow That Dream (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their "adopted" ...
Style: psychotronic, cult classic, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: elvis presley, music, surfing, homestead, gangster, family relations, gambling, casino, adoption, twins, orphan, singer ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
From Justin to Kelly (2003)
Genre: Comedy, 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: humorous, sexy, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: beach, dancing, music, lifestyle, best friend, youth, dance, vacation, teenager, relationships, spring break, singer ...
Time: year 2003
Place: usa, florida, miami, texas, pennsylvania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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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, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: mars, beach party, martian, beach, fashion show, alien, teenager, motorcycle, camp, dancing, alien invasion, ufo ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
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
Plot: racing, dancing, rock and roll, elvis presley, gambling, music, auto racing, dance, race, rock, car, casino ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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, humorous, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, music, gambling, dancing, twins, love triangle, boat, love and romance, dishonesty, fall in love, opposites attract, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: mississippi, new york, new orleans, louisiana, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 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, slapstick, psychotronic, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: beach party, surfing, chase, culture clash, teenage life, motorcycle, auto racing, music and dance, rock and roll, revolutionary war, car racing, beach ...
Time: 60s
Place: california, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Love Is a Four Letter Word (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Margaret and Martin Harper, both sixty years old, are filing for divorce, but plan to keep everything as civilized as possible. Complications arise when their respective attorneys, the equally cynical Emily Bennett and Kenton Rhodes, unexpectedly ...
Plot: divorce, divorce lawyer, lawyer, bare chested male, dinner, ritual, dog, beach, dancing, party, kiss
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Wedding Night in the Rain (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This comedic musical tells the story of Gabi, a young hairdresser from the Baltic coast who desperately wants to be a jockey. One day, she packs her bags, drives to Hoppegarten, and is soundly rejected by the head coach. Gabi doesn't want to ...
Plot: beach, wedding, holiday, blonde, biker, beach party, jockey, emancipation, swimming, horse
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Movie in collections
 6.3
 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, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: elvis presley, love, rock and roll, spring break, nightclub, gangster, couples, friends, disorder, opposites attract, forbidden love, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s
Place: florida, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.7
 2K
Spinout (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
Style: psychotronic, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: date night
Plot: rock band, elvis presley, racing, auto racing, true love, chess, rock and roll, music, car racing, race, motor racing, heiress ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Pin-up photographer, who doesn't want to get pinned down, comes up against a girl who won't take no for an answer.
Style: realistic, humorous, surreal, semi serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, disorder, love triangle, fall in love, unlikely couple, boss and employee, fashion photographer, couples, impossible love, workplace, journalism, lifestyle ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.5
 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 ⇓
42%
Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two ...
Style: black and white, retro, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, rock and roll, music, boat, love, nightclub, girl, captain, love triangle, family business, wooing, fish out of water ...
Time: 60s
Place: hawaii, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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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, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot: elvis presley, rock, bike, youth, fall in love, gambling, disorder, friends, starting over, chase, love and romance, buddies ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: seattle, washington state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 587
The Fat Spy (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A mostly-deserted island, which is believed to be the home to the fountain of youth, is off the coast of Florida. The island gets some visitors in the form of a teenage boy band, "the Wild Ones", and their gang of swimsuit-clad young ...
Style: independent film, psychotronic, spy comedy
Plot: mermaid, boat, fountain of youth, island, woman in a bikini, fishing, horse riding, dual role, beach party, computer, sikh, treasure hunt ...
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.2
 298K
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: feel good, sentimental, romantic, light, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: high school, opposites attract, teenage love, coming of age, makeover, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, first love, dating, teenage girl, dance, rock and roll ...
Time: year 1959, 1950s, year 1978, 20th century, year 1958 ...
Place: california, australia, los angeles, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.8
 2K
Tickle Me (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Elvis is a singing rodeo rider who drifts into an expensive dude ranch patronized by wealthy glamour girls. The owner, Vera Radford, hires Elvis as a stable man. Pretty physical fitness trainer Pam Merritt has a letter from her late grandfather ...
Style: psychotronic, retro, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, aerobics, rodeo, karate, ranch, letter, rock and roll, love, music, buddies, fall in love, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Kissin' Cousins (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin.
Style: psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Plot: elvis presley, foot fetish, hillbilly, music, soldier, cousin cousin relationship, hound dog, army, hidden identity, twins, buddies, society ...
Time: 60s
Place: tennessee, washington d.c., pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.7
 657
Something Hot (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During an International Trade Fair at Thessaloniki, a mature woman, Rena (Martha Karagianni), goes there with her sister to convince her childhood friend Dinos (Dinos Iliopoulos) to have a "white wedding" so that she can inherit a large ...
Plot: friend, woman, daughter, love, beach, boss, dancing, flirting, sea, water skiing, club, music band ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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, not serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night
Plot: surfing, beach party, satire, surf, camp, storytelling, beach, dancing, friends, couples, coming of age, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century, 50s
Place: california, usa, colorado, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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