|- | Mad About Men || 1954 || Sequel to Miranda (1948). |- | Pekka ja Pätkä sammakkomiehinä (Pekka and Pätkä as Frogmen) || 1954 || In this Finnish Pekka Puupää comedy, the heroes rescue a foundered mermaid and carry her to Pekka's apartment. They set her on the bathtub. Pekka's wife Justiina initially sees only her fish-tail and is initially surprised by "a big fish the menfolks have caught" and gets a knife to prepare it as a dinner, but she faints as she sees the mermaid's upper body. |- | Night Tide || 1961 || Starring Dennis Hopper and Linda Lawson |- | The Mermaids of Tiburon || 1962 || Starring Diane Webber, George Rowe, and Timothy Carey |- | Beach Blanket Bingo || 1965 || Starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, and includes a sub-plot of the character Bonehead (Jody McCrea) falling for a mermaid portrayed by Lost in Space'''s Marta Kristen. |- | Head || 1968 || Starring The Monkees, briefly features two mermaids in the opening "Porpoise Song" sequence, surrounded by psychedelic effects. |- | Siren || 1968 || Animated short film |- | Local Hero || 1984 || Marine researcher Marina (Jenny Seagrove) is suspected by her love interest of being a mermaid. |- | Splash || 1984 || Starring Daryl Hannah and Tom Hanks, Hannah plays a mermaid who falls in love with a human. She can walk on dry land when in human form, but her legs change into a fish tail whenever she gets wet. Much of the movie revolves around her humorous attempts to conceal her true identity from her lover. A made-for-television sequel, Splash, Too followed in 1988, starring Amy Yasbeck and Todd Waring. |- | Talk Dirty To Me Part III || 1984 || The third and fourth films in the adult film series Talk Dirty To Me feature mermaids who come ashore to find men. As in Splash, the mermaids can walk on dry land, and their legs become tails in water. The film endured controversy when it became public knowledge in 1986 that, at the time of filming, actress Traci Lords was 16-year-old and, therefore, underage in the US. |- | Mermaid in the Manhole || 1988 || A Tokyo-based shock film centered around a decaying mermaid found living in the Tokyo sewer system. This is a very gruesome film; it focuses on the mermaid's decay