Movies and TV shows set in hawaii
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in hawaii ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, romantic, entertaining, feel good and serious films and TV shows about / with beach, island, mentor, couples, chase, vengeance, dialogue, culture clash, brutality and destiny plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, Germany, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as hawaii: Aloha (2015), Same Time, Next Christmas (2019), The Descendants (2011), Soul Surfer (2011), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), A Perfect Getaway (2009), Magnum P.I. (2018), Just Go with It (2011), Princess Ka'iulani (2009), Six Days Seven Nights (1998).
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
Style:
feel good, rom com, romantic, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
love interest, love, happy ending, life philosophy, satellite, communication, love affair, air force, soldier, summer vacation, female soldier, small town ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Olivia Anderson is a successful young woman who met her childhood sweetheart during her family’s annual Christmas visit to Hawaii. After being separated by distance and years, the two reunite at the same Hawaiian resort years later, and the old ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, romantic, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
power of love, christmas, love, couples, young lovers, holiday, christmas romance, beach, destiny, stereotypes, romantic reunion, family tradition ...
Place:
hawaii
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron, Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
Style:
touching, depressing, sad, poignant, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
infidelity, teenage daughter, bittersweet, dying mother, family drama, grief, father daughter relationship, family relations, beach, dysfunctional family, cheating wife, death ...
Time:
year 2011, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, iran, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Soul Surfer is the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton. Bethany lost her left arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.Bethany ...
Style:
touching, christian film, inspirational, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
surfing, human spirit, christian, disability, shark, teenager, hospital, surfer, volunteer, shark attack, survivor, against the odds ...
Time:
year 2011, 20th century, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, thailand, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. ...
Style:
sexy, feel good, sex comedy, funny, rom com ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
breakup, vacation, love and romance, resort, sex scene, sarcasm, rock star, nothing goes right, surfing, one night stand, friendship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, los angeles, oceania, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney head to the tropical islands of Hawaii. While journeying through the paradisaical countryside the couple encounters Kale and Cleo, two disgruntled hitchhikers and Nick and Gina, two wild but ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, clever, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murderous pair, wilderness, honeymoon, psychopath, danger, escapades, vacation gone wrong, murder, island, murder mystery ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Thomas Magnum, a decorated former Navy SEAL who, upon returning home from Afghanistan, repurposes his military skills to become a private investigator in Hawaii taking jobs no one else will with the help of fellow vets T.C. Calvin and Rick Wright, ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
private investigator, crime investigation, sleuth, partners against crime, teamwork, investigation, police investigation, war veteran, vengeance, fighting crime, best friend, partner ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, oceania
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, funny, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
fall in love, pretense, pretend relationship, love and romance, couples, couple relations, love story, single mother, fake relationship, true love, wedding, dating ...
Time:
year 2011, year 1988, 80s, 90s, year 1992 ...
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania, los angeles
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Lush scenery and gorgeous photography highlight this bio of Princess Ka'iulani (Q'Orianka Kilcher), a 19th-century Hawaiian princess raised in England but determined to maintain her people's independence from aggressive American ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
royal family, historical figure, save the kingdom, politics, downfall, fall in love, life is a bitch, youth, political unrest, destiny, redemption, heroes ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 2009, turn of the century, 9th century ...
Place:
hawaii, usa, england, honolulu hawaii
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Mike and Dave are young, adventurous, fun-loving brothers who tend to get out of control at family gatherings. When their sister Jeanie reveals her Hawaiian wedding plans, the rest of the Stangles insist that the brothers bring respectable dates. ...
Style:
funny, sex comedy, humorous, rom com, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
wedding, erotic massage, sex scene, sexual attraction, topless woman, foul language, stupidity, sexual humor, public nudity, masseuse, caught having sex, female masturbation ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
hawaii, oceania
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When Quinn, a grouchy pilot living the good life in the South Pacific, agrees to transfer a savvy fashion editor, Robin, to Tahiti, he ends up stranded on a deserted island with her after their plane crashes. The pair avoid each other at first, ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sexy, cute, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
island, survival, stranded, jungle, desert island, love and romance, opposites attract, battle of the sexes, disaster, couples, initially antagonists, fall in love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hawaii, tahiti, fictional island, pacific ocean, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
feel good, intense, teen, entertaining, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
surfing, teenager, beach, friendship, female athlete, sea, fall in love, young lovers, women, coming of age, lifestyle, teenage life ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania, pacific ocean, new jersey ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua.
Style:
exciting, detective, realistic, cliffhanger, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
partners against crime, police protagonist, fighting crime, investigation, crime investigation, law enforcement, police, hotshot, honest law enforcer, policewoman, teamwork, suspicion ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischievous, enterprising mistress team up for a potential $200,000 score.
Style:
intense, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
robbery, skinny dipping, fondling, blackmail, mentor, judge, unlikely criminals, erotica, betrayal, heist, stereotypes, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
hawaii, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A bunch of high school misfits in Hawaii, introduced by their new teacher, attend a science fair in which they draw up inspiration to build their own solar car and win a trip to compete in the 1990 World Solar Challenge in Australia.
Style:
light, entertaining, feel good, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
underdog, high school, rivalry, racing, teenage boy, teenage girl, high school teacher, high school student, car racing, teen angst, teacher student relationship, chase ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, year 1990
Place:
hawaii, australia, usa, adelaide south australia, israel
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic ...
Style:
dark comedy, anthology, captivating, funny, psychological ...
Plot:
resort, satire, tropical island, vacation, social commentary, social satire, beach resort, gay lead character, exotic island, toxic relationship, female nudity, coworker ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, sicily, thailand, italy, oceania
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A man with a bazooka helps defend air-freighters Donna and Taryn against drug smugglers and a snake.
Style:
sexy, psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female killer, female assassin, tough girl, snake, erotica, rescue, danger, drug dealing, working undercover, special agent, espionage, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
hawaii, usa, honolulu hawaii, oceania
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mitch Buchannon (David Hasselhoff) was believed to have died in a boating accident at the end of the 10th season of Baywatch. However, it turns out he only had amnesia and has been recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. His new fiancée, Allison Ford ...
Style:
exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
beach, wedding, couples, couple relations, rescue, danger, vengeance, wedding planning, woman, wedding day, love, rivalry ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network.
According to the ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, light, entertaining, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
private detective, private investigator, beach, helicopter, buddies, lifestyle, anonymity, partner, police, investigation, heroes, friends ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
America is on the search for the murderer Eddie Kim. Sean Jones must fly to L.A. to testify in a hearing against Kim. Accompanied by FBI agent Neville Flynn, the flight receives some unexpected visitors.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, cult classic, suspense, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly, teens
Plot:
snake, airplane, dangerous animal, death, giant snake, sex scene, cobra, passenger, confined, panic, creature feature, rattlesnake ...
Time:
year 2006, jurassic, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, honolulu hawaii, los angeles, bali
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Genre: Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, sentimental, romantic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love, racism, forest, jungle, medicine, prejudice, coming of age, race against time, love and romance, family relations, couples ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
hawaii
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
North Shore is an American prime-time soap opera that aired on Fox every Monday at 8 p.m. EST for seven months in 2004 and 2005. It centered around the staff and guests of the fictional Grand Waimea Hotel and Resort on Oahu's North Shore in ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, soap opera
Plot:
hotel, hotel manager, young lovers, lifestyle, family business, couples, lifeguard, male female relationship, seduction, interracial friendship, surfing, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A teen-age girl and her father come to an island on Hawaii, they find a closer relationship to each other and think about changing the island. During her adventures, Sydney finds friends, a new hobby with her fantastic photography, and the truth ...
Style:
colorful, inspirational, captivating, teen
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
teenage girl, surfing, friendship, father daughter relationship, surf, teenage life, high school, friends, teenager, love affair, family relations, parents and children ...
Place:
hawaii, oceania
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant ...
Style:
captivating, tense, stylized, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, police protagonist, law enforcement, fighting crime, partners against crime, multiple suspects, workplace, investigation, police officer, honor, suspect, cop ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
Place:
hawaii, usa, honolulu hawaii, oceania
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Jane Tennant, the first female Special Agent in Charge of NCIS Pearl Harbor, and her unwavering team of specialists balance duty to family and country while investigating high-stakes crimes involving military personnel, national security and the ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
military, investigation, police partner, murder investigation, female police detective, female detective, unsolved crime, crime investigation, police investigation, fighting crime, partners against crime, teamwork ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, oceania
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, epic, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
world war two, war, military, combat, love, airplane, love triangle, navy, aerial combats, fighter pilot, u.s. air force, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, 50s, 20th century, year 1942 ...
Place:
pearl harbor, hawaii, japan, asia, cuba ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
epic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
surfing, surf, beach, lifeguard, coming of age, water, young lovers, mentor, surfer, teenager, black, fish ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
hawaii, arizona, usa, california, australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead ...
Style:
serious, captivating, sincere, realistic, inspirational ...
Plot:
missionary, religion, infidelity, state affairs, culture clash, fish out of water, redemption, religions or cults, family relations, interracial relations, christian, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, year 1966, regency period, 1830s ...
Place:
hawaii, usa, boston, yale university, oceania ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Beyond the Break is an American drama series set in Hawaii, that debuted on The N in June 2006.
Style:
sexy, touching, serious, realistic, exciting
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
surfing, teenage love, ambition, rise to the top, friendship, overcoming, youth, lifestyle, contests and competitions, rivalry, love and romance, teenage life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Hawaii is a United States television series produced and distributed by NBC Universal Television for the NBC television network. Originally titled Pearl City, this police drama was produced with the series Hawaii Five-O in mind, and debuted on ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
law enforcement, police detective, police, partners against crime, partner, police procedural, partnership, fish out of water, murder investigation, buddy cop, urban, police officer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, honolulu hawaii, usa
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