The Surfer

2025 · 100 min · EN · R · 5.7 (389 votes)

Dir. Lorcan Finnegan · Starring Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Justin Rosniak, Alexander Bertrand, Rahel Romahn, Nicholas Cassim · Music François Tétaz

“Don't live here, don't surf here.”

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A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. When he is humiliated by a group of locals, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising and pushes him to his breaking point.

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A sun-drenched psychological descent into obsession and territorial conflict. Feel the raw, escalating tension as a man's pride unravels under the harsh Australian sun. It's a visceral, unsettling journey into a desperate breaking point, where the idyllic becomes a battleground.

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