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Plot Summary:
Moneyless, ocean-exploring gigolo and his worldly lady-friend are forced to take part in looking into the possibility that aggression - utilizing marine life - is being planned.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, fast, psychotronic
Best tv shows and movies like Dark Waters (2003):
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5 Headed Shark Attack (2017)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful island is home to thousands of species of aquatic life. Now there is a new species: the 5-Headed Shark is all heads and teeth. Shaped like a demented starfish, this monster terrorizes the open ocean before invading the beaches of Puerto Rico, endangering the once peaceful island paradise.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, tense, surprise ending, rough, suspense, suspenseful, retro, mockbuster, absurd
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Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Emma Collins and her team are spending their third summer on the island of Little Happy studying the effect of climate change on the great white sharks who come to the nearby nursery every year to give birth. Along with the last two inhabitants of this former fishing village, their peaceful life is disrupted when a "scientific" team led by her ex-boyfriend and marine biologist Richard show up looking for three bull sharks who we soon learn aren't just any bull sharks.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, exciting, suspense, psychotronic, tense, intense, enigmatic
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Shark Attack (1999)
Plot Summary:
When an accidental death verdict is given on discovery of the remains of a top scientist, within the stomach of a hammerhead shark his closest friend Marine Biologist Steven McRay is not happy with the explanation and travels to investigate further, where he discovers that his friend's death was not an isolated incident, and that the local population have been terrorised by a rash of shark attacks.Developments in scientific technology had allowed experts to predict the pattern and likelihood of Shark Attacks, but now it seems that they may also be able to actually control these factors, rendering at their disposal the ultimate Killing machine.Enjoy the water... you may never want to go in the sea again!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel, South Africa
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: natural horror, cliffhanger, grindhouse, mockbuster, serious, suspenseful, fast, wild, cult film
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Shark in Venice (2008)
Plot Summary:
The seemingly tranquil waterways of Venice are terrorized by the perfect killing machine. In search of his father who has mysteriously disappeared diving in the city, David stumbles across the cryptic trail leading to the long-lost fortune of the Medici. As the unwitting pawn in a Mafia plot to recover the treasure, David's girlfriend is kidnapped at gunpoint, plunging him into a desperate race against time. If he has any hope of saving her he must enter the deadly waters. Can David out-gun the Mafia assassins and survive the voracious sharks laying in wait beneath the surface, or will he succumb to the same fate as his father?.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, natural horror, dark, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Malibu Shark Attack (2009)
Plot Summary:
An underwater earthquake generates a tsunami that strikes Malibu, bringing a hunting pack of prehistoric-looking goblin sharks to the surface. Although the beach is evacuated before the big wave strikes, a group of lifeguards and a crew of construction workers are stranded in the high water and have to fight the sharks to get to dry land.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, dark, perverse, natural horror, fast, computer animated
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Jersey Shore Shark Attack (2012)
Plot Summary:
Many years ago, hundreds of locals and tourists were massacred by giant man-eating sharks in the infamous 1916 Jersey Shore attacks. But that's just a legend... or is it? It's a holiday weekend on the Jersey Shore and, unbeknownst to anyone, underwater drills have attracted dozens of albino bull sharks to the pier. When a man goes missing, TC (The Complication), Nookie and friends fear the worst and plead with the police chief to close down the beach. It isn't until a famous singer is eaten alive during a performance on the pier that the shark hunt begins. Now, the Preppies must work together with the Guidos in order to save the Jersey Shore and its inhabitants from another vicious slaughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, mockbuster, humorous, campy
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Blue Demon (2004)
Plot Summary:
The "Blue Demon" project is an attempt by a team of scientists to train Great White sharks to protect America's coastline from any intruders.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, natural horror
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Shark Zone (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man must hunt down ferocious sharks that are threatening a small beach community.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, natural horror, funny, suspense
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Jaws 3-D (1983)
Plot Summary:
This third film in the series follows a group of marine biologists attempting to capture a young great white shark that has wandered into Florida's Sea World Park. However, later it is discovered that the shark's 35-foot mother is also a guest at Sea World. What follows is the shark wreaking havoc on the visitors in the park.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, natural horror, funny, bloody, anime, classic horror, tense, rough, serious
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Shark Attack in the Mediterranean (2004)
Plot Summary:
A prehistoric shark (named in the books "megalodon") lurks Mallorca, killing a couple of individuals. A professional diver begins the hunt.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, dark
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Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Plot Summary:
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, scary, natural horror, funny, classic horror, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast (2011)
Plot Summary:
12 years ago during a scientific expedition 3 animal biologists stumbled upon a great discovery that ended in tragedy. Whatever killed them has awoken and now the legend of the Ancient Snow Beast could prove to be more than just a legend.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, natural horror, serious, psychotronic
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Dinocroc (2004)
Plot Summary:
After an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile is found, Dr. Campbell uses its DNA to create prototypes at Paula Kennedy's Genetic Research Co. (Gereco) lab. However one must be put down after killing someone, another escapes and the information is kept from sheriff Harper. His daughter, county dog catcher Diane Harper, helps her ex (welding artist Tom Banning) with his kid brother Michael's beloved dog. They bump into Campbell and discover the dinocroc is growing, having escaped down a tunnel. Although Gereco hires Australian crocodile specialist and intrepid hunter, Richard 'Dick' Sydney, the beast proves impervious to bullets, so the body count rises alarming.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, natural horror, scary, fast, psychotronic, cult film
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Bats: Human Harvest (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of Delta Force soldiers, accompanied by a CIA agent, are sent to the Belzan forest in Chechnya in search of a rogue American weapons researcher, Dr. Benton Walsh. As they search for Walsh's camp, they are attacked by genetically-altered carnivorous bats. The survivors attempt to reach helicopter extraction but encounter various challenges, including Chechen rebels.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, bleak, natural horror, suspense, tense, disaster movie
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Dinoshark (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film opens with a baby dinoshark swimming away from a broken chunk of Arctic glacier that calved due to global warming. Three years later, the dinoshark is a ferocious predatory adult and kills tourists and locals offshore from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The protagonist, Trace, is first to notice the Dinoshark and witnesses his friend get eaten, but has trouble convincing people that a creature of such antiquity is still alive and eating people.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, stylized, natural horror, mockbuster, hilarious, psychotronic
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Snakehead Terror (2004)
Plot Summary:
A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead fish mutate and survive previous lake chemical poisonings. The fish transform from pests to predators when human growth hormones are dumped into the local lake in the hopes of reviving the local fishing industry. Thriving on the hormones, the Snakehead fish grow to monstrous proportions, devouring everything within reach. Capable of moving and eating on land, they are forced to leave the now barren lake in a desperate search for food - animal, vegetable or human.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, natural horror, tense
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King Cobra (1999)
Plot Summary:
30 feet of pure terror is the result of an experimental drug used in a biochemical lab and this mutated nightmare is pure evil! Half-African cobra and half-diamondback, he's 30 feet long with a giant appetite for terror.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, bleak, experimental, natural horror, dark, independent film, psychotronic
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2-Headed Shark Attack (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Semester at Sea ship is attacked and sunk by a mutated two-headed shark, and the survivors seek refuge on a deserted atoll. The coeds, however, are no longer safe when the atoll starts flooding.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, semi serious, suspenseful, natural horror, absurd, psychotronic, retro, mockbuster, horror comedy, hilarious
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The Reef (2010)
Plot Summary:
A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, slasher, social, dread
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Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009)
Plot Summary:
The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the sea.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: absurd, stylized, natural horror, exciting, tense, retro, suspense, dark, mockbuster, creepy
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SharkMan (2005)
Plot Summary:
When he began fusing human and shark DNA, his colleagues laughed at him. Now his creation is taking his revenge, and they aren't laughing anymore.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Aruba, USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, serious, natural horror, psychotronic
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Shark Hunter (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Megalodon shark. A prehistoric killing machine 60 feet long, flashing 200 pounds of teeth and weighing over 20 tons. It's the deadliest predator the world has ever seen. The scientists say it's been extinct for more than 10,000 years. The scientists are wrong. In the darkness of the deep, an underwater research station has been viciously destroyed. Now a tough team of daring divers led by Spencer Northcutt [Antonio Sabato Jr. "Melrose Place"] is taking an experimental sub to war. It's killer instinct vs. sophisticated technology, deadly jaws vs. harpoon-tipped torpedoes, mega-shark vs. modern man is a thrilling extreme deep sea fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, fast, psychotronic
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Megalodon (2018)
Plot Summary:
A military vessel on the search for an unidentified submersible finds themselves face to face with a giant shark, forced to use only what they have on board to defend themselves from the monstrous beast.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, atmospheric, mad
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Megalodon (2002)
Plot Summary:
Megalodon is a 2002 American shark film. It takes place out on a deep sea oil rig.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, natural horror, suspense
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Sharktopus (2010)
Plot Summary:
The U.S. Navy's special group "Blue Water" builds a half-shark, half-octopus for combat. But the sharktopus escapes and terrorizes the beaches of Puerto Vallarta.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: semi serious, scary, suspense, absurd, natural horror, retro, mockbuster, horror comedy, cult classic, hilarious
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Octopus (2000)
Plot Summary:
During the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, a Russian submarine strays into American waters. On board is a nuclear cargo destined for Castro. The Americans attack and destroy the sub. 38 years later US submarine Roosevelt is in the same waters. An unknown object attacks and disables the sub with devastating force and drags the vessel to the bottom of the ocean. What lies on the ocean bed beggars belief: dozens of wrecks, among them the sub destroyed 38 years ago. Whatever was on board has fed a creature of unbelievable size and strength! The only way out is the emergency submersible and a passing cruise ship. Above or below the water, there is no escape from the monster mutant octopus with a nuclear diet.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, rough, natural horror, suspense, serious, psychotronic, independent film
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Raptor Island (2004)
Plot Summary:
A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to be extinct for millions of years descend upon them in an action-packed tale of man-versus-monster starring Steven Bauer and Lorenzo Lamas.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, tense, suspense, dark, fast, psychotronic
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Red Water (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the quiet waters of the Mississippi, body parts are being discovered. No one knows what is behind it all, until a huge man eating bull shark turns up. This bull shark is different, as it can breath in fresh water, making a deadly encounter between anyone who comes before it. John Sanders must now try and reach the surface, with his ex-wife and whilst being held hostage.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, natural horror, exciting, suspense, psychotronic, wild
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Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Plot Summary:
On a remote former submarine refueling facility called Aquatica, a team of scientists are searching for a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Susan McAlester genetically engineers three Mako sharks, intending to increase their brain capacity so that they can harvest the tissue as a cure for Alzheimer's. Unfortunately, the increased brain capacity also makes the sharks smarter, faster, and more dangerous. Aquatica's financial backers are skeptical and nervous about the tests, and send a corporate executive to visit the facility.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 141000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, natural horror, scary, slasher, serious, suspense, psychological thriller, breathtaking
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Silent Venom (2009)
Plot Summary:
The only thing more terrifying than Snakes on a Plane is "Snakes on a Submarine," and that's exactly what we get in this claustrophobic, sub-aquatic thriller starring Luke Perry. Lieutenant Commander O'Neill (Perry) was piloting a retired submarine to its final port when Admiral Wallace (Tom Berenger) diverted the crew for one last mission: rescue an imperiled army research team before they meet a watery death. In order to reach the researchers and their top secret cargo while avoiding detection by a hostile enemy fleet, Lieutenant Commander O'Neill orders his crew to "run silent" in the depths. That silence is soon broken, however, when the cargo proves to be two genetically altered leviathans. Now, far beneath the ocean floor, a new kind of predator emerges to prove just how vulnerable man truly is when there's nowhere left to run.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, fast, natural horror, ridiculous