American movies about surfers

List of the best American movies about surfers selected by visitors to our site: Point Break, The Shallows, Point Break, Soul Surfer, Chasing Mavericks, Riding Giants, Blue Crush, Surfer, Dude, Lords of Dogtown, Big Wednesday.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA, Japan
Duration01:57

In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:15

An injured surfer stranded on a buoy needs to get back to shore, but the great white shark stalking her might have other ideas.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime, sport
CountryUSA, Canada, China, Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration02:25

A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, family, biography, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

    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 (AnnaSophia Robb) was born to surf. A natural talent who took to the waves at a young age, she was leading an idyllic life on Kauai, participating in national surf competitions with her best friend Alana (Lorraine Nicholson), when everything changed. On Halloween morning, a 14-foot tiger shark came out of nowhere and seemed to shatter all her dreams.Soul Surfer reveals Bethany's fight to recover from her ordeal and how she grappled with the question of her future. Strengthened by the love of her parents, Tom (Dennis Quaid) and Cheri (Helen Hunt), and supported by her youth group leader Sara (Carrie Underwood), Bethany refuses to give in or give up, and begins a bold return to the water.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

      Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredocumentary, history, sport
      CountryUSA, France

      Riding Giants is story about big wave surfers who have become heroes and legends in their sport. Directed by the skateboard guru Stacy Peralta.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, sport
      CountryUSA, South Africa, Germany
      Duration01:44

      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 no one's blessing but her own, Anne Marie finds all she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene - until pro quarterback Matt Tollman comes along...

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA

      A wave twisting tale of a soul searching surfer experiencing an existential crisis.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, documentary, biography, sport
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:47

      The film follows the surf and skateboarding trends that originated in Venice, California during the 1970s.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon, sport
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:48

      An animated comedy that features WWE Superstars, providing their own voices while matching up against talking animals.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredocumentary
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:45

      Featuring ten-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater, The Ultimate Wave follows a quest to find the perfect wave-riding experience. Filmed in Tahiti and among the islands of French Polynesia, the film showcases dramatic giant screen surfing action in a unique Pacific paradise.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantasy, musical, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      Life's a beach for surfers Brady and McKenzie – until a rogue wave magically transports them inside the classic '60s beach party flick, "Wet Side Story," where a full-blown rivalry between bikers and surfers threatens to erupt. There, amidst a sea of surfing, singing and dancing, Brady and Mack accidentally change the storyline, and the film’s dreamy hero and heroine fall for them instead of for each other! Can our heroes get the plot back on track, or will they be trapped there forever?

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      A mother travels cross-country to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      A secret admirer's crush on a high school athlete takes a fatal turn.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, comedy, family, cartoon, detective, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      Get ready to Rock! Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. Gang team up with the one and only KISS in this all-new, out-of-this-world adventure! We join the Gang at Kiss World – the all-things-Kiss theme park, as they investigate a series of strange hauntings. With help from Kiss, they discover that the Crimson Witch has returned to summon The Destroyer from the alternate dimension of Kissteria! The evil duos ghastly plan, to destroy the earth! Can the Gang's cunning and Kiss's power of rock save the day?!

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      Born To Race is the story of Danny Krueger, a rebellious young street racer on a collision course with trouble. After an accident at an illegal street race, he is sent to a small town to live with his estranged father, a washed up NASCAR racer. When Danny decides to enter the NHRA High School Drags, he's forced to seek his father's help in taking down the local hot shot

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryMexico, USA
      Duration02:16

      An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredocumentary
      CountryUSA

      An exploration of the Alien presence on Earth and the reality of suppressed free energy technology.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:20

      Fin and his wife April travel around the world to save their young son who's trapped inside a sharknado.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genredrama, military
      CountryUSA

      In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain... and death... to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever - from a boy into a man. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is the quintessential wartime tale of the Home Front. It is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the sweetness of life, the sting of death and the modesty and sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.

      Markimdb: 3.6
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA

      A group of friends return home with a friend to help him share a secret only to learn that sometimes older secrets are even more deadly.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genreaction, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA

      After being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace finds himself caught up in an elaborate gold heist that promises to have far-reaching implications on his life and the lives of countless others.

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      A woman and her best friend go on a crime spree to rob her husband and escape her marriage.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      In this darkly romantic ghost story, a woman travels to an isolated cabin where she is stalked by an apparition who inhabits her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows obsessive. Soon the woman begins to exhibit weirdly irrational behavior as the thin line between sanity and possession begins to unravel. Is she battling her inner demons, or is a much darker presence threatening them all?

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom

      An unlikely friendship forms between 21 year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at Sadie's yard sale.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom, Iceland, Australia

      A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genremusic
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:50

      Fall Out Boy are bound-and-blindfolded in the back of a black van while rapper 2 Chainz walks around a dark, wooded campsite torching records. ("My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)") The story begins to unfold backwards, with the band discovering a mysterious briefcase that lead singer Patrick Stump cuffs to his wrist. Stump gets shocked from behind and taken somewhere which one of the girls cuts his hand off to get to the briefcase. Drummer Andy Hurley gets distracted by a van, which opens up and a woman behind him throws him in there. Stump is seen being tortured on an operating table and the women are doing surgery on him. Guitarist Joe Trohman gets kidnapped while pumping gas. Bassist Pete Wentz is stabbed with a needle from his girlfriend. Stump is shown tied to a chair that continues with Young Volcanoes. ("The Phoenix")

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:56

      Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genrethriller, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      A rabid film fan stalks his favorite action hero and destroys the star's life.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, family, history
      CountryUSA

      Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his long-time friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrefantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      No one seemed to care about Jamie Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits former classmate Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead.

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:01

      Five college pals head out of town for a fun weekend, but plans quickly change after they encounter a strange 7-year old girl at an abandoned roadside cafe and offer to drive her home - and come face to face with evil incarnate.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
      Duration01:51

      With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale, Finnick, and Peeta – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to stage an assassination attempt on President Snow who has become increasingly obsessed with destroying her. The mortal traps, enemies, and moral choices that await Katniss will challenge her more than any arena she faced in The Hunger Games.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:49

      Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha and hometown musician Marcus feel the old sparks of attraction but struggle to adapt to each other's worlds.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      Four children in their attic hideaway make up a fantastic story, while downstairs their parents weave a drunken intrigue of their own.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genredrama, western, crime
      CountryFrance, Spain, Romania, Belgium, USA
      Duration01:56

      Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

      Markimdb: 3.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryNew Zealand, USA
      Duration01:24

      Last Fourth of July, teenager Christy Bruce disappeared from a high school beach party. Her severed arm washed ashore a day later. Drunken sea captain Blaise Shaw became a hero to the small seaside community of Harmony after killing the great white shark that was deemed responsible, but the Christy Bruce murder was no shark attack. Blaise turns to ghost hunter Ava Conte, who is skeptical but intrigued by his ghost shark ramblings. With preparations for a massive July 4th celebration rapidly approaching, they soon find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy of sex and murder involving the town's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. Unprepared to contend with a Ghost Shark that can hunt on land, sea, as well as anywhere there is enough water or rain to sustain its phantom form, Blaise and Ava must uncover the truth about the towns dark past or fall victim to the Ghost Shark

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Soon after Thom starts operating as an illegal taxi driver in New York City, Claire hires him to drive her to California after her estranged father suffers a heart attack.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:26

      Falling Overnight tells the story of twenty-two year old Elliot Carson on the day before he has risky surgery to remove a brain tumor. Facing what could be his last night, Elliot’s path intersects with Chloe Webb, a young photographer who invites him to her art show. Elliot welcomes the distraction and as the night descends, Chloe takes him on an intimate and exhilarating journey through the city. But as morning approaches, and Chloe learns of Elliot’s condition, the magic of the evening unravels, and they must together face the uncertainty of Elliot’s future.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Nick Malloy portrays an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) who finds himself caught in a deadly 12-round game of cat and mouse with a vigilante tied to the paramedic's past. With little time to spare and his wife's life hanging in the balance, the EMT must figure out why he's been chosen to be the pawn in this maniac's game before it's too late.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA, China
      Duration02:18

        A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, family, cartoon, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:53

        Oooh Hollywood! The glitz, the glam...the Headless Horseman?! Join your favorite K-9 sleuth, Scooby-Doo, along with Shaggy and the Mystery Inc. gang as they find themselves in a tinsel-town twist! While on a VIP tour of the legendary Brickton Studios, Scooby and friends get a first-hand experience of the rumored hauntings when classic movie monsters drop in for a creepy casting call. There's only one way to solve this thriller and save the aging studio - it's Mystery Inc's movie magic time! Grab your Scooby Snacks and hop in the director's chair for this all-new LEGO® movie!

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:37

        Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin should be well on his way to a successful career at a Fortune 500 company, but instead he rebels against maturity by taking a job at a video store. Matt rethinks his position when his unrequited high-school crush, Tori, walks in and invites him to an end-of-summer party. With the help of his twin sister and his best friend, Matt hatches a plan to change the course of his life.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrethriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        Drina, a young immigrant working as a live-in maid for a wealthy Long Island family, finds herself entangled in the family's web of dark secrets once she begins to suspect her employer's son has committed a terrible crime.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, cartoon
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:00

        A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:27

        A young and cynical female journalist learns love may transcend trials and time as she discovers a story that will change her life forever. When war separates lovers on their wedding anniversary Feb. 14, 1944 at LA Union Train Station, Navy pilot Neil Thomas makes a promise he isn't sure he can keep - to return to the train station safe by their next anniversary. For sixty years Caroline Thomas keeps her promise by waiting at the train station until her missing in action husband can finally keep his with the "lost valentine." The message and meaning shows romance and love can be real; worth fighting, and maybe even dying for.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:52

        A star of hunting videos strives to bond with his 12-year-old son on a wilderness trip but learns familial connections can't be forced.

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        The Thomas family goes out to their forest cabin to celebrate Christmas together with their daughter and her boyfriend. But their first festive period together may be their last…

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrethriller, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:22

        In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions. Based on the true story of the biggest bank heist in US history.




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