Teen Beach Party Movies (1959-1967)
by DragonettaIsWeird | created - 04 Sep 2019 | updated - 19 Dec 2019 | PublicThe Best of the Beach Party Movies (Official and Unofficial).
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1. Gidget (1959)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young girl discovers surfing and love (in that order) during one transitive summer.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 3,823
2. Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Gidget, on vacation in Hawaii, finds a gang of lads vying for her attention, starting a chain of romantic complications when her boyfriend arrives.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: James Darren, Michael Callan, Deborah Walley, Carl Reiner
Votes: 1,206
3. Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
Unrated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
College 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.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin, Stefanie Powers
Votes: 1,193
4. Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Unrated | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
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.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Deborah Walley, Harvey Lembeck
Votes: 3,154
5. Muscle Beach Party (1964)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Musical
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Luciana Paluzzi, John Ashley
Votes: 1,771
6. Beach Party (1963)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A bearded anthropologist studies the habits of swingin' American teens while they enjoy the summer surfing, loving, and partying at the beach.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello
Votes: 2,339
7. Bikini Beach (1964)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A 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.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer, Don Rickles
Votes: 1,758
8. Pajama Party (1964)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Sent 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.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Elsa Lanchester, Harvey Lembeck
Votes: 1,298
9. How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Musical
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... See full summary »
Director: William Asher | Stars: Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Brian Donlevy, Harvey Lembeck
Votes: 1,632
10. The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)
Unrated | 82 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
A corpse has 24 hours to mastermind a good deed without leaving his crypt, to go "up there" and have his youth restored.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley, Aron Kincaid, Quinn O'Hara
Votes: 1,365
11. Ride the Wild Surf (1964)
TV-G | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Fabian and Shelley Fabares are among the '60s stars surfing their way to paradise along the famous beaches on Hawaii's North Shore.
Directors: Don Taylor, Phil Karlson | Stars: Fabian, Shelley Fabares, Peter Brown, Barbara Eden
Votes: 801
12. Where the Boys Are (1960)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four very different college girls drive to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break and seek out various adventures and romance for themselves.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Dolores Hart, George Hamilton, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Hutton
Votes: 3,096
13. The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
Approved | 78 min | Horror, Musical
Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community.
Director: Del Tenney | Stars: John Lyon, Alice Lyon, Allan Laurel, Eulabelle Moore
Votes: 3,192
14. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A 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.
Directors: Norman Taurog, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart
Votes: 2,607
15. The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965)
Unrated | 70 min | Horror
Surfers are being brutally murdered. Is the culprit a sea monster or just one of the teens' jealous parents?
Director: Jon Hall | Stars: Jon Hall, Sue Casey, Walker Edmiston, Elaine DuPont
Votes: 1,089
16. Surf Party (1964)
Not Rated | 68 min | Comedy, Musical
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.
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Bobby Vinton, Patricia Morrow, Jackie DeShannon, Ken Miller
Votes: 295
17. Wild on the Beach (1965)
77 min | Comedy
Adam 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.
Director: Maury Dexter | Stars: Frankie Randall, Sherry Jackson, Gayle Caldwell, Jackie Miller
Votes: 227
18. It's a Bikini World (1967)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Musical
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.
Director: Stephanie Rothman | Stars: Deborah Walley, Tommy Kirk, Bobby Pickett, Suzie Kaye
Votes: 386
19. The Girls on the Beach (1965)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy
The 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.... See full summary »
Director: William Witney | Stars: Noreen Corcoran, Martin West, Linda Marshall, Steven Rogers
Votes: 280
20. For Those Who Think Young (1964)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy
A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: James Darren, Pamela Tiffin, Paul Lynde, Tina Louise
Votes: 571
21. Don't Make Waves (1967)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy
Carlo 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.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Webber, Joanna Barnes
Votes: 1,943
22. Catalina Caper (1967)
G | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Del Moore, Peter Duryea, Robert Donner
Votes: 2,239
23. Out of Sight (1966)
Unrated | 87 min | Comedy
Teenage/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 ... See full summary »
Director: Lennie Weinrib | Stars: Jonathan Daly, Karen Jensen, Robert Pine, Carolyne Barry
Votes: 135
24. Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Music
A college co-ed tries to balance her time writing songs and dealing with her publisher who tries to pursue her.
Director: Sidney Miller | Stars: Mary Ann Mobley, Joan O'Brien, Nancy Sinatra, Chris Noel
Votes: 529
25. Ski Party (1965)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Musical
In 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.
Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Deborah Walley, Yvonne Craig
Votes: 809
26. Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A college student and his best female friend and fellow student plan to spend the Easter holidays together. Then an Italian seaman shows up and creates a love triangle.
Director: Jack Sher | Stars: Tommy Sands, Fabian, Toby Michaels, Edward Andrews
Votes: 148
27. Clambake (1967)
TV-G | 99 min | Comedy, Musical
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 for his father's money.
Director: Arthur H. Nadel | Stars: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Will Hutchins, Bill Bixby
Votes: 3,229
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