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In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.

The film follows the surf and skateboarding trends that originated in Venice, California during the 1970s.

Two teenage girls discover a mermaid in their beach club's swimming pool.

As a hard-core surfer girl prepares for a big competition, she finds herself falling for a football player.

A rebellious stoner named Moondog lives life by his own rules.

Fate deposits Dud on the doorstep of Lodge 49, a dusty fraternal order that offers cheap beer and strange alchemical philosophies.

A woman agrees to go on a date with a man only if he finds a suitor for her unattractive best friend.

A wave-twisting tale of a soul-searching surfer experiencing an existential crisis.

A down-on-his luck beach bum asks a cute female genie to help him seduce the woman of his dreams only to realize that he might be looking in the wrong place.

JC thinks surfing is everything. His girlfriend Chloe wants him to settle down. When he decides to go surfing one night with friends from London, she throws JC out. Surfing or Chloe?

Watch free on Tubi. Link to contain: movies/596148/terminal-exposure. An amateur photographer and a friend spending the the summer in Venice Beach accidentally photograph a murder, and become amateur sleuths, which takes them to Las Vegas.

At a Malibu rented house, a tennis hustler, a surfer and a musician enjoy a Bohemian lifestyle, fall in-love with an unexpected female visitor and fight off a motorcycle punk gang.

Surfers and secret spots from around the world are profiled in this documentary.

Former beach bunny/girl surfer Francine "Gidget" Lawrence is an adult and married to her long-term beau Jeff "Moondoggie" Griffin. She deals with a variety of marital spats, as well as running her own travel agency, running interferences with her teenage niece, and trying to arrange a reunion of her husband's old surfing friends. Meanwhile, Jeff works as an architect and must fend off romantic advances from his beautiful and lascivious boss. Gidget's niece wants to learn how to surf and gets too much when she sneaks out to see a suave, self-serving beach bum behind the back of her nerdy boyfriend.

The fifth in a series of Cinerama travelogues---and not a Documentary since the vast majority of the film, aside from the scenery, is comprised of fictional stories. The first one involves an American girl, on a cruise to Hawaii, who makes friends with another American girl who lives in Hawaii. The first girl meets the second girl's family, and the Hawaiian-girl's brother takes an interest in her. The second segment follows the skipper of a sailing vessel taking the route followed by Captain Cook; the next concerns an artist who paints the sights of Tahiti; An American ex-G.I, stationed in New Zealand during World Warr II, returns for a real visit; and the finale is about a group of settlers arriving in the Australian out-back, and the value of the two-way radio.The 120-minute running time includes a 15-minute intermission, as part of the listed running-time.

In the Indian Ocean, the new British Resident of the Welcome Islands tangles with loneliness, angry natives, a drunken troublemaker and a sudden outbreak of cholera.

Cuda Weber is a Hawaii beach bum who finds himself the surrogate uncle to five orphaned children and tries to keep them together as a group.

Exemplifying Kipling's adage, a white man falls to pieces when he is in the South Seas.

Beach bum Gregory spots the lovely Scyla sunbathing on the beach and immediately becomes infatuated with her. However, Gregory's possessive witch old flame Circe gets jealous when she finds out about his obsession with Scyla and concocts a magic potion to make the beautiful lady ugly.

Mutant mondo, discarding any attempt at making things look "real". The film's concept suggests that all stories are based on authentic news headlines. Fact or fiction, this is a fun, dumb anthology of oddball tales - a headless motorcycle driver in Nice, a psychedelic disco in San Francisco, an eerie Japanese computer-dating company.

An American rejected by an heiress goes to the Philippines as a teacher, leaving the girl behind. There he succumbs to the tropics and lives with a native girl. Then he hears from the girl back home that she will arrive at dawn next day.

Muscular men put their ball skills to work on the sun-drenched beaches of Miami and California.

Teen detective Nancy Drew searches for buried treasure on a remote island in the Bahamas in order to meet the ransom demand after her best friend is kidnapped.

Two beach bums steal a policeman's uniform, while he takes a dip, and use it to eat in a cafeteria without paying the bill.

When Woody and Chuck can't make the rent on the beach house, they con Ellenhorn into going in with the promise of a quiet, peaceful stay with only the three of them. But before they realize it, three beautiful beach bunnies and then a bunch of freeloading musicians insinuate themselves into the crowded shack. When Ellenhorn arrives, they try to hide their new roommates.