Beach Party Movies
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- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsSandra DeeJames DarrenCliff RobertsonA young girl discovers surfing and love (in that order) during one transitive summer.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsDolores HartGeorge HamiltonYvette MimieuxFour very different college girls drive to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break and seek out various adventures and romance for themselves.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJames DarrenMichael CallanDeborah WalleyGidget, on vacation in Hawaii, finds a gang of lads vying for her attention, starting a chain of romantic complications when her boyfriend arrives.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsRobert CummingsDorothy MaloneFrankie AvalonA bearded anthropologist studies the habits of swingin' American teens while they enjoy the summer surfing, loving, and partying at the beach.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsJames DarrenCindy CarolJessie Royce LandisGidget, in Rome for a holiday, misinterprets attention she receives from a famous journalist. Discovering he is "chaperoning" her at Dad's request she resumes interest in her boyfriend. Based upon characters created by Frederick Kohner.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsTroy DonahueConnie StevensTy HardinCollege students on spring break in Palm Springs pursue romantic entanglements. Jim falls for Bunny, Biff for Amanda. Gayle poses as a student while Eric courts her. Their coach flirts with a motel owner amid her son's antics.
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsBobby VintonPatricia MorrowJackie DeShannonA young girl travels to California with a couple of friends in order to visit her brother. After they arrive it doesn't take long for them to get into the swing of things and also to attract the attention of the local police sergeant.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsFrankie AvalonAnnette FunicelloLuciana PaluzziLocal beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
- DirectorLeslie H. MartinsonStarsJames DarrenPamela TiffinPaul LyndeA wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsFrankie AvalonAnnette FunicelloMartha HyerA 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.
- DirectorDon TaylorPhil KarlsonStarsFabianShelley FabaresPeter BrownFabian and Shelley Fabares are among the '60s stars surfing their way to paradise along the famous beaches on Hawaii's North Shore.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsJames DarrenPamela TiffinDoug McClureCasey Owens (James Darren), a young mechanic, has developed a design for a turbine car engine, paving the way for a jet-powered auto certain to set a new land speed record. Wealthy playboy Stanford Rogers (Peter Mann) hires Casey to build a car for him to attempt to set a new Land Speed Record. Chuck Manning (Doug McClure), an engineering student Casey met in a drag race, discovers potential flaws in the car's design. After an unsuccessful test run, Rogers abandons the turbine-powered. He decides to turn his attention to race a car in the Tristate Endurance Race. Casey and Chuck buy the wrecked Land Speed car and salvage the Turbine Engine. They fix the Turbine and install it in a car that they enter in the Tristate Endurance Race. Pamela Tiffin plays Eadie, Chuck's sister, who becomes Casey's love interest.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsTommy KirkAnnette FunicelloElsa LanchesterSent to Earth to prepare for an invasion, a Martian scout lands amidst a swim party and tries to convince everyone that he really is who he says.
- DirectorSidney MillerStarsMary Ann MobleyJoan O'BrienNancy SinatraA college co-ed tries to balance her time writing songs and dealing with her publisher who tries to pursue her.
- DirectorRobert SparrStarsJames StacyWilliam Wellman Jr.Quinn O'HaraTwo guys and a girl run a week-long concert festival in the sunny summertime of Arrowhead, California and deal with bullies and breakups.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsFrankie AvalonAnnette FunicelloDeborah WalleyFrankie, DeeDee, and the gang meet singing sensation Sugar Kane in a publicity stunt; they all get introduced to skydiving and get caught up in love.
- DirectorBob WelbornStarsSteve HarkinsDon JacksonThe OffbeetsRomantic and comedic hi-jinks ensue when a group of students take a break from college and go to Daytona Beach.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsNoreen CorcoranMartin WestLinda MarshallThe 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, bragging that they know the Beatles, the girls plan a concert with the Fab Four as the main attraction.
- DirectorAlan RafkinStarsFrankie AvalonDwayne HickmanDeborah WalleyIn this musical, college classmates Todd Armstrong (Frankie Avalon) and Craig Gamble (Dwayne Hickman) head out on a group ski vacation, and agree that if they're going to get girlfriends, they need to understand how women think.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsAnnette FunicelloDwayne HickmanBrian DonlevyFrankie, on naval-reserve duty in Tahiti, doesn't trust Dee Dee to stay faithful, so he hires Bwana, a witch doctor, to help. Bwana conjures up a floating bikini, "stuffs" it with Cassandra, and sends her to distract advertising executive Ricky from Dee Dee.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsFrankie AvalonDeborah WalleyCesar RomeroAn astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the astronaut, and the astronaut has the brains of the chimp. Complications ensue.
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsFrankie RandallSherry JacksonGayle CaldwellAdam Miller and Lee Sullivan both lay claim to a beach house for student boarders. Problems arise when both boys and girls show up to live there.
- DirectorLennie WeinribStarsEdd ByrnesChris NoelRobert LoganEdd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group, the Wigglers. College-finance-committee members Chris Noel, Gail Gilmore, Mikki Jameson and Brenda Benet uncover the scam and tear up the check, but the Wigglers play a Long Beach, California custom-car show in drag and win first prize. The Supremes do "Come to the Beach Ball with Me" and "Surfer Boy;" the Four Seasons sing their 1964 hit "Dawn;" the Hondells sing Brian Wilson's "My Buddy Seat;" the Righteous Brothers do "Baby What You Want Me to Do;" and the Walker Brothers cut loose with "Doin' the Jerk." Gary Kurtz of "Star Wars" fame was the assistant director.
- DirectorBert I. GordonStarsTommy KirkJohnny CrawfordBeau BridgesDelinquent teen-agers ingest a substance and grow thirty feet tall, then proceed to take over a small town.
- DirectorRichard BenedictStarsJames StacyWilliam Wellman Jr.Beverly AdamsTeenagers work, play and dance to rock 'n' roll at a Lake Tahoe ski lodge.
- DirectorNorman TaurogIshirô HondaStarsVincent PriceFrankie AvalonDwayne HickmanA skirt-chasing spy and a millionaire bachelor must foil mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot's plot to use his army of bikini-clad robots to seduce wealthy men into signing over their assets.
- DirectorLennie WeinribStarsGary ClarkeChris NoelJay and the AmericansFraternity brothers at Alpine College recruit Ronnie Duke to seduce Susan Benchley because Susan has brainwashed the other female students on campus to avoid dating the boys.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsTommy KirkDeborah WalleyAron KincaidA corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
- DirectorLennie WeinribStarsJonathan DalyKaren JensenRobert PineTeenage/secret agent/musical comedy about Big Daddy, who's been "driven mad by rock'n'roll," so he plans to sabotage a music fair with a bomb. Secret agent Homer comes to the rescue aided by his girlfriend Sandra along with Marvin. The sinister villains belong to the crime syndicate F.L.U.S.H. Featuring the musical groups The Turtles, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, The Astronauts, The Knickerbockers, and Freddie and the Dreamers.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsPeter FondaNancy SinatraBruce DernThe "Angels", a San Pedro motorcycle gang, party their way through the Coachella Valley while searching for a bike stolen from them by Mexicans, clashing with police along the way.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsAnn-MargretAnthony FranciosaRobert CooteAn authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.
- DirectorMarshall StoneStarsTroy DonahueAndrea DrommAlbert DekkerYoung American girl tries to solve the murders of two Americans in the Caribbean.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsDana AndrewsJeanne CrainMimsy FarmerThe new owner of a motel in the California desert has a run-in with a gang of delinquent teenage hot rod drivers.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsAldo RayMimsy FarmerMichael EvansLA police captain attempts to appease Sunset Strip businessmen objecting to hippy youths hanging out, by setting a curfew. The cop also thinks the kids have a right to be there, until his estranged daughter joins the counter-culture crowd.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsBobby VeeJackie DeShannonEddie HodgesStandard boy-girl malt shoppe doings, with a free speech on campus sub-plot dropped in.
- DirectorRichard RushStarsAnnette FunicelloFabianDiane McBainStock car racer Tommy Callahan is forced to join Pete Madsen's thrill circus after his blackouts cause a fatal accident that gets him thrown off the circuit. He shows Pete's daughter Francie and her boyfriend Eddie Sands everything he knows about driving. Eddie takes up with Tommy's girl Annie Blaine after winning the first time out. They become fierce rivals by the next race, during which Tommy remembers driving over his brother with a go-kart and Eddie hits the wall.
- DirectorDaniel HallerStarsJohn CassavetesBeverly AdamsMimsy FarmerAn exiled band of Hell's Angels strike a bargain with the Sheriff of a local town, let them stay and the town is safe. But a local girl strays into their lair and sparks off a full scale Angel war.
- DirectorGene NelsonStarsRoddy McDowallDebbie WatsonGil PetersonA young, millionaire rock promoter decides to create a new boy/girl duo team for his teen TV dance show by teaming up an ambitious go-go dancer and a has-been pop star and presenting them to the public as a new romantic pair.
- DirectorStephanie RothmanStarsDeborah WalleyTommy KirkBobby PickettMale 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.
- DirectorLee SholemStarsTommy KirkDel MoorePeter DuryeaA group of swingin' teens take time out from having fun in the sun to try to foil a group of crooks searching for a stolen scroll.
- DirectorAlexander MackendrickStarsTony CurtisClaudia CardinaleRobert WebberCarlo goes on a vacation to Southern California, where he quickly becomes immersed in the easygoing local culture and becomes entangled in two beach-side romances.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsRichard ToddJames MacArthurSusan OliverA college professor resigns in protest to the dismissal of student underground newspaper workers and later joins their "hippie movement" and becomes their "Messiah."
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsPeter FondaSusan StrasbergBruce DernA disillusioned TV-commercial director is guided by his friend through an LSD trip, during which he evaluates his identity and his relationships with women.
- DirectorJoseph KaneStarsTommy KirkRay StricklynH.M. WynantRivals on the raceway--for publicity purposes only (but secretly buddies). Then they fall in love with the same woman--and the rivalry on the raceway becomes very real...
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsFabianDiane McBainKevin CoughlinA teacher trying to break up a local drug ring is framed and arrested for possession of marijuana.
- DirectorDaniel HallerRoger CormanStarsFabianMimsy FarmerJudy CornwellA devil-may-care racing driver is paid by an auto tycoon to be a runner-up, not a winner, but he rebels against the crooked deal and becomes an internationally famous racer.
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsJeremy SlateDiane McBainSherry JacksonDriven by jealousy, the jilted leader of a female motorcycle gang instigates a sadistic reign of terror against her ex-lover and his new bride.
- DirectorBarry ShearStarsChristopher JonesShelley WintersDiane VarsiA young man gains significant political influence as the leader of a counterculture rock band with his rallying cry of voting rights for teenagers.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsJohn SaxonMary Ann MobleyLana WoodAnne and Helen move into a California apartment complex for singles only where all the occupants are looking to hook up with Milton Berle as the building manager.
- DirectorHarvey HartStarsAnthony FranciosaMichael SarrazinJacqueline BissetAt a Malibu rented house, a tennis hustler, a surfer and a musician enjoy a Bohemian lifestyle, fall in-love with an unexpected female visitor and fight off a motorcycle punk gang.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsBrooke BundyKevin CoughlinLloyd BochnerThe loosely intertwined stories of three separate teenage runaways who concurrently end up in the counter-culture Old Town of Chicago is presented, each, generally good from what would be considered a financially comfortable environment, who ran away for a different reason, but each who is ill prepared for life starting from scratch on his or her own. Deanie Donford is escaping from the control wielded by her shrewish, holier-than-thou mother who believes every action Deanie does is an invitation for sex. Dewey Norson is being threatened by a girl he does not love regarding her pregnancy - he who may or may not be the father - something he felt he could not tell his parents despite having a good relationship with them. And Shelly Allen feels like her widowed advertising executive father, Raymond Marquis Allen, is more interested in her as a test case for his work than as a daughter who he truly loves and understands. The three end up in different situations in the Old Town, some supportive, some less so, and some which outwardly are so but mask a hidden nefarious agenda in preying on the vulnerability of runaways who are looking for that support just to get by.
- DirectorAnthony M. LanzaStarsDennis HopperJody McCreaChris NoelChino is the tough leader of a motorcycle gang who starts off a war when he abducts and mistreats the leader of the enemy biker gang, Darryl, and his girlfriend Chris. Things get violent when Darryl comes back for revenge.
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsTom NardiniPatty McCormackJoanna FrankA Mexican-American student organization pushing for dismissal of a bigoted coach finds itself at war with the wealthy white students.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsGardner McKayFred ClarkDiane McBain'Generous' Josh belittles the sailing abilities of his friend Terry O'Brien, and Terry counters by betting Josh $20,000 that, using an all-female crew, he can beat him in a race to Tahiti. Terry's crew consists of novice sailors - a murderess, a cocktail waitress, and two other women who go along for the ride - while Josh has an experienced crew. Josh bribes one of his women to sabotage Terry's boat, and despite numerous delays owing to an island jailbreak, a mutiny, a night spent overboard, and a romantic intrigue, Terry manages to close the gap between the rival sailing vessels; but Josh still finishes first. Josh's sabotage plan backfires, and he is forced to confess to his underhanded tactics, although he insists that he is the better sailor. Terry challenges Josh to a rematch, this time using a crew of baboons, Josh accepts, unaware that the "baboons" Terry intends to use are a Polynesian singing group composed of expert sailors.
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsJeremy SlateJocelyn LaneAdam RoarkeWhen hot-headed Dan out-drives the thoroughly vicious Tony in a motorcycle race and wins a brand new bike, he sets in motion a chain of events that includes one blazing gas station and a disastrous rock slide.
- DirectorJack ArnoldRicou BrowningStarsTony RandallJanet LeighRoddy McDowallA marine scientist volunteers to have his family live in a prototype underwater home to prove it's practical.
- DirectorLarry BuchananMaury DexterStarsFabianJocelyn LaneAstrid WarnerAfter serving four years of a six-year sentence on a manslaughter charge, a tough punk (Pretty Boy Floyd) escapes from prison and goes on a violent rampage.
- DirectorJohn D. HancockStarsGlynnis O'ConnorSeymour CasselDorothy TristanA nerd from Chicago tries desperately to fit in with the California surfing crowd, blind to the fact that their lives are even more boring and empty than his.