Surfing Movies

When your not in the water or can't get to the water why not pop in a surfing movie to get your surf fix! There are some great ones out there. Our favorite is the classic Endless Summer. We also really like Blue Crush which is all about women surfers.

The Endless Summer

• Year:1966
• Director: Bruce Brown
• Genres: Documentary | Sport
• Tagline: A true motion picture about surfing. Filmed in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii and California.
• Plot Outline The crown jewel to ten years of Bruce Brown surfing documentaries. Brown follows two young surfers around the world in search of the perfect wave, and ends up finding quite a few in addition to some colorful local characters.
• Movie Description
  The greatest surf movie ever made. "On any day of the year it is summer somewhere in the world..." Go with Robert August and Mike Hynson as they follow the summer season to Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii and California in search of the perfect wave. Still the ultimate surf film of all time!

The Endless Summer 2

• Year:1994
• Director: Bruce Brown
• Genres: Documentary | Sport
• Tagline: The journey continues...
• Plot Outline Bruce Brown, king of surfing documentaries, returns after nearly thirty years to trace the steps of two young surfers to top surfing spots around the world.
• Movie Description
  A great follow up the the greatest surfing documentary of all time!

Blue Crush

• Year: 2002
• Director: John Stockwell
• Genres: Drama | Romance | Sport
• Tagline: If you want to feel the rush you have to take the risk.
• Plot Outline As a hard-core surfer girl prepares for a big competition, she finds herself falling for a football player.
• Plot Synopsis: Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates including her rebellious younger sister, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters surf 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. Like it or not, Anne Marie starts losing her balance - and finding it - as she falls for Matt.

Step Into Liquid

• Year: 2003
• Director: Dana Brown
• Genres: Documentary | Sport
• Tagline: No special effects. No stuntmen. No stereotypes. No other feeling comes close.
• Plot Synopsis: Surfers and secret spots from around the world are profiled in this documentary.

North Shore

• Year: 1987
• Director: William Phelps
• Genres: Drama | Romance | Sport
• Tagline: 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.

Big Wednesday

• Year: 1978
• Director: John Milius
• Genres: Comedy | Drama
• Tagline: A day will come that is like no other... and nothing that happens after will ever be the same.
• Plot Synopsis: The lives of some California surfers from the early '60s to the '70s.

Billabong Odyssey

• Year: 2003
• Director: Philip Boston
• Genres: Documentary | Action | Adventure | Sport
• Tagline: Surfing doesn't get any bigger than this!
• Plot Synopsis: Action sports documentary that follows the industry's best big wave surfers as they travel the world searching for the largest waves that nature has to offer. The journey spanned 18 months, 6 continents and produced up to 70 foot waves.

Riding Giants

• Year: 2004
• Director: Stacy Peralta
• Genres: Documentary | History | Sport
• Plot Synopsis: Documentary detailing the origins and history of surf culture.

The Greats of Women's Surfing: Surfer's Journal Biography

• Year: 2007
• Director: Bayview Films
• Genres: Documentary | History | Sport
• Plot Synopsis: Documentary on the history of women surfing. Educational!