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Plot Summary:
Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, melancholic, stylized, intense, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, psychotronic, retro
Best tv shows and movies like Blue Hawaii (1961):
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Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)
Plot Summary:
Lieutenant Ted Jackson spends his lat day on active duty in the Navy disarming an underwater mine. While disarming the explosive he sees what appears to be a sunken ship. Overcome with curiosity, he investigates and finds a treasure chest filled with what he thinks are Spanish gold coins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 88%
The Trouble with Girls (1969)
Plot Summary:
Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small town America.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, History, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 82%
Harem Holiday (1965)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Tyronne, action movie star and ladies man, is travelling through the Middle East on a goodwill tour to promote his latest movie, "Sands of the Desert". Once he arrives, however, he is kidnapped by a gang of assassins who were so impressed with his on-screen adventures that they want to hire him to carry out an assassination for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, psychotronic, realistic, exotic, campy
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Clambake (1967)
Plot Summary:
The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, experimental, semi serious, psychotronic, light, sexy, bad ending, melancholic
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Kissin' Cousins (1964)
Plot Summary:
An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Plot Summary:
Pin-up photographer, who doesn't want to get pinned down, comes up against a girl who won't take no for an answer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, psychotronic, offbeat
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Tickle Me (1965)
Plot Summary:
Elvis is a singing rodeo rider who drifts into an expensive dude ranch patronized by wealthy glamour girls. The owner, Vera Radford, hires Elvis as a stable man. Pretty physical fitness trainer Pam Merritt has a letter from her late grandfather directing her to a cache of gold in the ghost town of Silverado. The sheriff and his gang learn of the letter and plot to take it away from her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
Plot Summary:
Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes clear that romance and flying don't always mix.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, exotic
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Speedway (1968)
Plot Summary:
A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Fun in Acapulco (1963)
Plot Summary:
Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike must find new work. Little boy Rauol helps him get a job as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Clashes abound when Mike runs into the rival lifeguard, who is the champion diver of Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, technicolor, exotic
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Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Plot Summary:
Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: retro, black and white, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, tense, light, sexy
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Muscle Beach Party (1964)
Plot Summary:
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, freeze frame, campy
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Beach Ball (1965)
Plot Summary:
Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang
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Spinout (1966)
Plot Summary:
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
Plot Summary:
Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl, Sue-Lin, whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse, Diane.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, cult film
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Follow That Dream (1962)
Plot Summary:
When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their "adopted" children - Holly, Ariadne and the twins - start their own little community along a strip of the roadside.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Frankie and Johnny (1966)
Plot Summary:
Elvis plays Johnny, a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. Donna Douglas plays Johnny's girl, Frankie. A fortune teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck. Enter a new lady luck played by Nancy Kovack and the cat fight begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, road movie, sexy, clever, bad ending
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Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, hilarious, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, exciting
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Back to the Beach (1987)
Plot Summary:
Cowabunga! The surfing '60s ride into the new wave as Frankie and Annette star in this hip update of their old-time, good-time beach movies. With special appearances by Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Pee-Wee Herman, Jerry Mathers and other familiar faces. Frankie and Annette grow up and have kids in the midwest. They return to LA to visit their daughter who is shacked up with her boyfriend and tries to hide the fact. They begin to have marriage problems when Frankie runs into Connie, who has erected a shrine to him in her night club. Their punk son has joined up with the local surf toughs, and things all come to a head when the toughs challenge the good guys to a surfing duel.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spoof, humorous, offbeat, feel good, realistic, witty, not serious, parody, light, sexy
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From Justin to Kelly (2003)
Plot Summary:
A lonely, sexually repressed man. A depressed woman. A summer camp. On this fateful night, they will meet... and their hearts will become one.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, light, feel good, touching, realistic, semi serious, romantic, road movie, rough
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Girl Happy (1965)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago mobster hires a rock and roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Beach Party (1963)
Plot Summary:
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang, teen sex comedy
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Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Plot Summary:
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, stylized, psychotronic, funny, independent film, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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It's a Bikini World (1967)
Plot Summary:
Male 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.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Fancy Dancing (2002)
Plot Summary:
A composer finds love with a co-worker after taking a job at his uncle's advertising agency.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, emotional, semi serious, feel good, realistic
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Summer Magic (1963)
Plot Summary:
Disney musical about Mother Carey, a Bostonian widow and her three children who move to Maine. Postmaster Osh Popham helps them move into a run-down old house and fixes it up for them. It's not entirely uninhabited, though; the owner, a Mr. Hamilton, is a mysterious character away in Europe, but Osh assures them he won't mind their living there, since he won't be coming home for a long time yet. The children and a cousin who comes to live with them have various adventures before an unexpected visitor shows up.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, retro
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Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Plot Summary:
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, black and white, hilarious, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, satirical, vintage
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Cry-Baby (1990)
Plot Summary:
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, light, parody, teen, feel good, surreal, cult classic, dark comedy, retro
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4 Wedding Planners (2011)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy taking a lighthearted look at a wedding planning business run by a Honolulu mom and three daughters from three different dads. Triple-divorcee Miriam is having her own lack of luck in love, her eldest daughter Lily heads home after rejecting her boyfriend's marriage proposal and her two half-sisters are running the business into the ground.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, sincere, feel good, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Mamma Mia! (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set on an idyllic Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA hit songs. Donna, an independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on the island is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited young daughter she's raised alone. But Sophie has secretly invited three of her mother's ex-lovers in the hopes of finding her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 267000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, light, sentimental, stylized, not serious, teen, happy, funny, inspirational