Films set at the beach (California)

A young girl discovers surfing and love (in that order) during one transitive summer.

Gidget is a bright, winsome fifteen-and-a-half year old California teenager.

Frankie, 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.

The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.

Heroic, but dull, Fred Maklin and beautiful, but spoiled, Jerrie Turner wash up on an uncharted tropical island. They are soon captured by ex-Nazi Colonel Osler, who also has imprisoned a bevy of beauty contest winners whom he allows to be whipped by his slavering Nazi storm troopers. He has, you see, been extracting some glandular substance from the girls to inject into his wife Mona, who suffered terrible facial disfigurement, in efforts to restore her beauty. Things get worse as the island is used for test bombing by the US Air Force.

Julie, an American on vacation in Mexico, spots a giant, one-eyed amoeba rising from the ocean, but when she tries to tell the authorities, no one believes her. She finally teams up with a marine biologist in an attempt to destroy it.

A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.

Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.

Frankie, 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.

A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

You want to see beautiful Coronado--everyone does. But if you cannot see Southern California with your own eyes then see it through the eye of the motion picture camera. There's boat and auto racing, an exciting polo game, swimming races, etc.--and all on New Year's Day, 1912. Those who have never seen Southern California in the winter time will enjoy it--those more fortunate will find it equally enjoyable.

Surfers are being brutally murdered. Is the culprit a sea monster or just one of the teens' jealous parents?

A 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.

Several people have decided to go swimming at the swimming pool at Coney Island. They include a young woman with a strong armed boyfriend, and another young woman accompanied to the park by her overprotective parents. Complications begin when the second young woman begins cavorting with the assistant lifeguard, of who her father does not approve. In trying to get the assistant lifeguard to leave his daughter alone, the father inadvertently gets involved with the second young woman, which brings her strong armed boyfriend into the picture.

In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of time, as his daughter matures and his wife ages. The daughter becomes a lovely young woman, herself ready for marriage. One day on the beach, the familiarity of the sea and the surroundings triggers a return of her father's memory, and we are reminded that although people age and change, the sea and the ways of the fisherfolk remain eternal.

Mabel and her sweetheart go to the beach and play a trick on the boyfriend's father.

The beach front house, where Fatty and Mabel live, has been "launched" out to sea by the villains. When Fatty and Mabel arise, they find the beds floating in a sea of water.

Reared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the Greystokes becomes one of the apes. Then Dr Porter organises a rescue expedition, and his beautiful daughter Jane catches his attention. Has Tarzan of the Apes found the perfect mate?

A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.

A young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.

Chorus girl Daisy Heath is about to marry a millionaire and settle down to riches (if not happiness). But young Southern army private Pettigrew catches her eye and true love upsets her plans.

A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what it is she does and doesn't want anything to do with her.

Three US sailors fight German U-boats in World War I aboard a decoy ship and try to win Ginger Rogers who works on the Coney Island midway.

After winning a qualifying trial for a big speed-boat race in Santa Monica, California, Joe Dunn is offered a bribe, by gamblers, not to take part in the race and is so incensed that he starts a fight which lands him in jail. The girl he loves, Peggy McNeil, takes his place, but crashes into a buoy and is seriously injured---and Joe goes to desperate lengths to raise money for the services of a famous surgeon.