Movies like Blue Hawaii
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Blue Hawaii (1961)
8K
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:
light, melancholic, stylized, intense, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, psychotronic, retro ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
surfing, beach, elvis presley, dancing, happy ending, tour guide, family business, love and romance, parents and children, fall in love, starting over, partner, love, music, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, island, interracial romance, interracial friendship, summer, civilization, music history, family relations, youth, hopes ...
Time:
60s, year 1961, 20th century, future, 80s, 1960s
Place:
hawaii, usa, polynesia, honolulu hawaii, oceania, las vegas
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Most similar movies to Blue Hawaii
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, singer, singing, dancing, rock, song and music mostly in Comedy, Musical and Romance genres. Some movies like Blue Hawaii: Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966), Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), Spinout (1966), Fun in Acapulco (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes ...
Style:
psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
elvis presley, island, beach, music, interracial romance, anti hero, partner, underdog, odd couple, buddies, rescue, heroes ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
hawaii, usa, honolulu hawaii
Similarity:
95%
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, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
elvis presley, boat, rock and roll, music, girl, love, nightclub, fish out of water, love triangle, family business, ship, wooing ...
Time:
60s, 80s
Place:
hawaii, usa, arizona, las vegas
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 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, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rock band, true love, elvis presley, racing, auto racing, chess, rock and roll, race, music, car racing, motor racing, heiress ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike must find new work. Little boy Rauol helps him get a job as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Clashes abound when Mike runs into the rival ...
Style:
psychotronic, retro, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
elvis presley, lifeguard, music, love, youth, beach, musician, rivalry, hopes, lifestyle, ambition, rising to stardom ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
latin america, acapulco mexico, mexico
Similarity:
54%
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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:
53%
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, singer, passionate kiss, homestead, family relations, casino, adoption, gambling, gangster, twins ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 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:
impossible love, elvis presley, photograph, disorder, boss and employee, unlikely couple, love triangle, fall in love, fashion photographer, couples, lifestyle, workplace ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
50%
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, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
elvis presley, aerobics, karate, rodeo, ranch, letter, love, rock and roll, music, couples, farm, friends ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
47%
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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:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money.
Style:
experimental, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
elvis presley, beach party, oil, hotel, wealth, fish out of water, social differences, rich and poor, cinderella story, fall in love, resort, mistaken identity ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
florida, miami, usa, hawaii, las vegas
Similarity:
44%
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:
44%
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:
43%
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, psychotronic, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
surfing, beach, beach party, motorcycle, rock and roll, culture clash, surf, summer, young lovers, teenager, dancing, dating ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 80s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, new jersey, hawaii
Similarity:
42%
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:
42%
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:
41%
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:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Disney musical about Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow and her three children who move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, a Mr. ...
Style:
retro, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
widow, young lovers, family relations, mysterious character, starting over, love and romance, family life, parents and children, youth, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place:
maine, usa, europe, boston
Similarity:
37%
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:
37%
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68K
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:
36%
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:
36%
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:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Johnny Tyronne, action movie star and ladies man, is travelling through the Middle East on a goodwill tour to promote his latest movie, "Sands of the Desert". Once he arrives, however, he is kidnapped by a gang of assassins who were so ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, psychotronic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
elvis presley, assassination, fish out of water, partner, goofy hero, opposites attract, blind ambition, desire for fame, nothing goes right, rivalry, disorder, palace intrigue ...
Time:
60s
Place:
middle east, pakistan
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A composer finds love with a co-worker after taking a job at his uncle's advertising agency.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
ex wife, lifestyle, going straight, starting over, ambition, hopes, womanizer, couples, infidelity, custody, parents and children, performer's life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Similarity:
32%
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:
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Romantic comedy taking a lighthearted look at a wedding planning business run by a Honolulu mom and three daughters from three different dads. Triple-divorcee Miriam is having her own lack of luck in love, her eldest daughter Lily heads home after ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, sincere, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
wedding, love and romance, family business, looking for love, wedding planning, family relations, homecoming, couples, parents and children, fall in love, friendship, wedding dress ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, hawaii
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lieutenant Ted Jackson spends his lat day on active duty in the Navy disarming an underwater mine. While disarming the explosive he sees what appears to be a sunken ship. Overcome with curiosity, he investigates and finds a treasure chest filled ...
Style:
psychotronic, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
date night
Plot:
elvis presley, ship, boat, beatnik, fish, music, water, underwater, diving, navy, partner, fall in love ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Just as San Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is set to get married, her absentee father arrives, disrupting the household of his ex-wife. Is he there to break up the wedding? Or to steal back his ex-wife? Or is Pogo finally ready to be a ...
Style:
technicolor, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
dancing, wedding, human nature, love and romance, couples, family relations, estrangement, family life, breakup, parents and children, card playing, pianist ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
Similarity:
29%
302K
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Set on an idyllic Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA hit songs. Donna, an independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on the island is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited young daughter she's raised ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, teen, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, kids ...
Plot:
wedding, mother daughter relationship, dancing, father daughter relationship, single parent, greek island, teenage girl, single mother, happy ending, dance, broadway, meet the parents ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe, fictional island, italy, new york
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Joe Lightcloud persuades his Congressman to give him 20 heifers and a prize bull so he and his father, Charlie, can prove that the Navajos can successfully raise cattle on the reservation. If their experiment is successful, then the government will ...
Style:
psychotronic, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
elvis presley, cowboy, indian reservation, half breed, rodeo, village life, rural area, buddies, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition, friends ...
Time:
60s
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
28%
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, feel good, humorous
Plot:
elvis presley, foot fetish, impossible love, hillbilly, cousin cousin relationship, hound dog, village life, music, soldier, army, fugitives, buddies ...
Time:
60s
Place:
tennessee, washington d.c., pentagon
Similarity:
28%
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