The Surfer (2025) is more than a movie—it feels like a slow-burning poem about pride and pain. Nicolas Cage plays a man who just wants to surf where he grew up, but the local group won’t let him.

Instead of backing down, he chooses to stay. Even when it means sleeping in the sand, drinking dirty water, and losing his mind. You watch him fall, but never quit.

This is one of those films where silence says more than words. If you want something deep and different, you should definitely stream it on Afdah.