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The surf culture is reflected in film. Bruce Brown's classic movie The Endless Summer glorified surfing in a round-the-world search for the perfect wave. John Milius's homage to the Malibu of his youth in Big Wednesday remains a poignant metaphor for the similarities between the changing surf and life. Beach movies such as the Gidget series and Beach Party films like Beach Blanket Bingo are less reverential depictions of the culture.
- Blue Crush, starring Kate Bosworth
- Blue Hawaii
- Blue Juice, Sean Pertwee, Ewan McGregor, Catherine Zeta-Jones
- A Brokedown Melody, Jack Johnson
- The Endless Summer, Bruce Brown
- The Endless Summer II, Bruce Brown
- Five Summer Stories, Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman
- Gidget
- Hawaiian Holiday, Bud Browne
- Johnny Tsunami, Disney feature film with surfing/snowboarding
- In God's Hands (1998) is the story of big wave riders that go all over the globe searching to ride bigger and bigger waves.
- Liquid Time (2002) is an avant-garde surf film that focuses solely on the fluid forms of tubing waves.
- Lords of Dogtown
- Morning of the Earth
- Newcastle Dan Castle Film about Surf Culture in the Australian Town of Newcastle
- North Shore
- Orange County
- Point Break
- Puberty Blues 1981 Australian surfie film.
- Riding Giants
- September Sessions
- Step Into Liquid, directed by Dana Brown
- Surf Crazy, Bruce Brown
- Surfwise (2007)
- Surf's Up is a computer-animated mockumentary, which investigates the premise that surfing was actually invented by penguins, taking viewers behind the scenes of the "Penguin World Surfing Championship".
- Tan Lines a predominantly gay-themed surfing drama.
- Thicker Than Water, Jack Johnson