Movies like Gidget's Summer Reunion

If you like "Gidget's Summer Reunion" you are looking for psychotronic and tv series pilot movies about / with surfing, birthday, beach and surfer themes of Comedy and Drama genre shot in USA.
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Gidget's Summer Reunion (1985)
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Gidget's Summer Reunion (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Gidget's Summer Reunion is a 1985 television film produced by Columbia Pictures Television for television syndication. It was written by Robert Blees and George Zateslo and directed by Bruce Bilson and starred Caryn Richman as Gidget.
Style: psychotronic, tv series pilot
Plot: surfing, birthday, beach, surfer

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Most similar movies to Gidget's Summer Reunion

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, humorous, realistic and semi serious films with plots about beach, surfing, friends, female nudity, friendship, youth and surfer mostly in Comedy, Drama and Musical genres. Some movies like Gidget's Summer Reunion: Ride (2014), Surf Party (1964), Wild Wheels (1969), Ride the Wild Surf (1964), California Girls (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ride (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A mother travels cross-country to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer.
Style: captivating, sincere, thought provoking, humorous, light
Plot: surfing, writers, mother son relationship, young man, beach, surf, family relations, couples, friendship, art, motivation, water ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pacific ocean, california, usa, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 4.3
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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
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87%
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Wild Wheels (1969)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A group of surfers use dune buggies to protect their beach from a gang of invading bikers.
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: biker, motorcycle, surfing, surfer, motorcycle gang, group, police, musician, biker gang, fight
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Ride the Wild Surf (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of friends go to Hawaii during the height of surfing season, to compete with other surf bums and find girlfriends along the way.
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: surf, beach party, college, teenager, ship, surfer, beach, teenage life, siblings relations, twentysomething life, friends, contests and competitions ...
Time: 60s
Place: hawaii, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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California Girls (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A New Jersey auto mechanic travels to California to find the girl of his dreams and woos a bikini fashion model while the time quarreling with her high-powered manager and avoiding his New Jersey girlfriend who comes looking for him.
Plot: dream girl, auto mechanic, beach, mechanic, garage
Place: california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Which Way, Por Favor? (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The breathtaking sights and sounds of Mexico's lush Pacific coast come alive in this captivating comedy-drama shot in the isolated seaside village of Yelapa. Join four offbeat travelers hunting for romantic adventure, hidden cash, a mysterious ...
Style: independent film
Plot: drug, vacation, seduction, beach, improv, tourist, lesbian subtext, dog, sex, female nudity, scorpion
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
An American Summer (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this youthful drama, Tom, a 14- year-old who's parents have just divorced, is abruptly uprooted from his wealthy Chicago home and sent to the strange land of LA to live in the far-out beach bungalow of his aunt, an aging hippie still stuck ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: lifeguard, surfing, teenager, drowning, coming of age, friendship, beach, profanity, youth, buddies, couples, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Aloha Summer (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It's the 60s and a bunch of crazy teenagers meet in the beautiful island of Hawaii during their summer holidays. Although they come from different backgrounds, they hang out together and shake up the island! They surf, dance, drink, fight and ...
Style: independent film
Plot: samurai, beach party, summer, kendo, teenager, vacation, surfing, coming of age, friendship
Time: 60s, 1950s
Place: hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Roommates Wanted (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When recently widowed, it is difficult to get used to a new life ... This is the case for Hubert Jacquin, who spends most of his time in his huge apartment, depressed, in front of his TV. One day, after a misunderstanding, his life will change. ...
Plot: loneliness, roommate, lawyer, police, birthday, flatmate, party, arrest, snake, old man, spider, police arrest ...
Time: year 2016
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Costa Rican Summer (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A titillating teen comedy, a young surfer and his friends head to Costa Rica to save his beautiful aunt's beach motel, resurrect an old surf champion and find enough waves and women to make for a totally tasty time.
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, realistic ...
Plot: lifestyle, surfing, friends, youth, teenage life, surf, surfer, sexuality, couples, looking for sex, friendship, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: costa rica, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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That's Life! (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A wealthy architect struggles with a severe case of male menopause at the approach of his 60th birthday.
Style: sentimental, independent film, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot: aging, midlife crisis, bittersweet, family gatherings, hospital, depression, cancer, birthday, priest, fortune teller, architect, family relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: malibu california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Surfer, Dude (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A wave twisting tale of a soul searching surfer experiencing an existential crisis.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: surfing, surf, beach, ambition, buddies, swimming pool, friends, rise to the top, stoner, surfer, erotica, weed ...
Time: year 2008
Place: california, malibu california, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Palm Beach (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of lifelong friends reunite to celebrate a special birthday, with Sydney's iconic Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop for the unfolding drama. The good times roll, with loads of laughter, lavish meals, flowing wine and fantastic ...
Style: independent film
Plot: beach house, rock star, family relations, suburbs, philosophical conversation, family conflict, meal, nostalgia, family secret, beach, birthday, birthday party ...
Place: australia, sydney australia, new south wales
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34%
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Orange County (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his disfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another starting when his application is ...
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, high school, dysfunctional family, coming of age, family relations, drug, youth, horniness, sex with a minor, cheerleader, teenage life, parents and children ...
Place: california, southern california, usa, yale university, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Little Boxes (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: It's the summer before 6th grade, and Clark is the new-in-town biracial kid in a sea of white. Discovering that to be cool he needs to act 'more black,' he fumbles to meet expectations, while his urban intellectual parents Mack and ...
Style: independent film
Plot: interracial family, interracial couple, black man white woman relationship, professor, writers, birthday, black, bookstore, book, blaxploitation, ethnicity, youth ...
Place: new york, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Kitchen (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jennifer's thirtieth birthday party is supposed to be a special day. But what starts out as a day of celebration quickly spirals into a most ill-fated day Jennifer wishes she could forget, in this ensemble comedy set entirely in a kitchen.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, talky, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: birthday, nothing goes right, disorder, family relations, food, dishonesty, friendship, siblings relations, infidelity, wine, isolation, restaurant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Naked Ape (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers insight into the reasons why ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: sleaze, coming of age, sexuality, anthropology, college student, vietnam war, satire, student, college, ballet, male nudity, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sex comedy, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beach, surfing, high school student, fight, partner, juvenile delinquency, sexy teenager, best friend, criminal heroes, escapades, youth, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Girls on the Beach (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The girls of Alpha Beta need to raise $10,000 in two weeks to save the sorority house. Among their schemes to raise the funds are a beauty contest, a newspaper puzzle, and a baking contest. But when three guys hit the beach with love on their minds, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, stylized ...
Plot: beach, surfing, the beatles, sorority, beach party, rock and roll, ocean, loss of virginity, disorder, friends, journalism, rivalry ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Die dressierte Frau (1972)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An episodic battle of the sexes inspired by the best-selling book of the same name.
Style: sex comedy, erotic, psychotronic
Plot: emancipation, female pubic hair, female nudity, sex, female full frontal nudity
Place: munich germany
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30%
Christmas in Paradise (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two families disembark on a cruise to San Juan in celebration of Christmas.
Style: christmas comedy
Plot: christmas, healing, teen romance, youth, teenage angst, caribbean sea, teen angst, ship, cruise ship, beach, holiday, loss of father ...
Place: caribbean
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29%
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Truth Be Told (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The POstables are on a mission to deliver a soldier's letter from Afghanistan to a teenager who's being relentlessly bullied, while Oliver's estranged father surprises him with news that shakes him to his core.
Style: thought provoking, talky, realistic, sincere, clever ...
Plot: grandfather granddaughter relationship, inheritance, birthday, mother daughter relationship, anger, father son relationship, letter, death, coworker relationship, post office, postman, love and romance ...
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29%
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Changeland (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Follow two estranged best friends on an epic, life-changing adventure in Thailand as they're reminded that there's no problem that friendship and a few rounds in a Muay Thai boxing ring can't fix.
Style: semi serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing, clever ...
Plot: friendship, relationship problems, meaning of life, travel, cause and meaning, family problems, introspection, friends, relationships, self discovery, magic, beach ...
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Thar She Blows! (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A crazed sea captain goes on a bloody rampage after his vessel is commissioned by a sleazy film producer and a trio of vixens.
Style: sex comedy, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film
Audience: adult
Plot: sexploitation, ship, exploitation, lesbian sex, sex scene, women, nudity, male nudity, female nudity, sex, prostitute, yacht ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
California Dreaming (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: surfing, beach, coming of age, surf, lifestyle, fish out of water, infidelity, nudity, summer, youth, misfit, human nature ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: california, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
End of the Road (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner is taken to "The Farm"...
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, independent film ...
Plot: counterculture, therapy, age-gap relationship, mad doctor, insanity, abortion, satire, eccentricity, unfaithful, marijuana, weirdo, dark humor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Moola (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Just as the business which Steve helped create, American Lightsticks, is on the brink of collapse, a huge 'deal' suddenly materializes, and he and his partners are sure that their lives have changed forever. A true-to-life comedy inspired ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, contemplative
Plot: friendship, friends, best friend, obsessive quest, betrayal, down on your luck, partner, buddies, sexual content, profanity, beach, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Romaine (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: First Adventure: Romaine goes on vacation by herself. Second Adventure: Romaine dones internships. Third Adventure: Romaine loses her memory ... Three stories of a girl without friends, without hope, without desire.
Plot: girl, sleepwalking, female nudity, beach, holiday, male nudity, swimming pool, shared shower, female full frontal nudity, shower, bra, group shower
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Ecstasies of Women (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Harry is a man whose friends throw him night-long bachelor party on the eve of him getting married. Harry flashes back to his many female "conquests" with the go-go dancers that remind him of his many past lovers.
Style: independent film, erotic, semi serious, realistic, sexy ...
Plot: nightclub, go go dancer, bachelor party, model, beach, orgy, sexploitation, sex, smoking, seduction, female nudity, sex scene ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Elevator Movie (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jim is a shy, withdrawn loner, pervert, and virgin. Lana is a friendly and outgoing born again Christian who has renounced her promiscuous drug filled past. They have never met until they step into an elevator together one day. The elevator gets ...
Style: psychotronic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, minimal cast ...
Plot: trapped in an elevator, surrealism, transformation, introvert, sex maniac, isolation, obsession, virgin, irony, controversy, pervert, elevator ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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