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Plot Summary:
Great white sharks attack a fishing charter, ramming a hole in the ship’s hull. With the shoreline miles away, those aboard are forced to fight for their lives before they are either drowned or eaten alive.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Great White (1998)
Plot Summary:
A professor tries to convince the residents of a small town that a series of attacks are the handiwork not of mountain animals but of a rare river-dwelling shark.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Shark Bait (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends enjoying a weekend steal a couple of jetskis racing them out to sea, ending up in a horrific head-on collision. They struggle to find a way home with a badly injured friend while from the waters below predators lurk.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Malta
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Barracuda (1978)
Plot Summary:
Little coastal town is being terrorized by deadly Barracudas.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, rough, natural horror, psychotronic, grindhouse, classic horror, surprise ending, independent film
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Maneater (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends on vacation in a seeming island paradise are stalked by an unrelenting great white after an accident leaves them stranded and left for dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Mississippi River Sharks (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sharks attack a fish rodeo on the Mississippi River, and it is up to a group of locals to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Great White (2021)
Plot Summary:
What should have been a tourist trip to remember, quickly turns into a living nightmare when five passengers on a seaplane become stranded, miles away from shore. What follows is a desperate bid for survival as the group try to make it to land before they either run out of supplies or are taken by the man-eating sharks lurking just beneath the surface.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody, contemplative
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The Watermen (2012)
Plot Summary:
A clan of watermen capture a crew of sport fishermen who must then fight for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, scary, rough, bleak
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Candy House (2011)
Plot Summary:
Maria (Annika Strauß) is happy. Her little sister Kira (Alex Anasuya) returns after being gone for a bunch of months, caused by the death of their beloved mother. When Maria and Kira stayed at their family's house for the first night after a long time, strangers enter the house and start a night full of fear, horror and torture. Everyone who enters the family's house has to fight for his life... What do the strangers want? And what is the secret behind the family's past?.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, splatter
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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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The Reef: Stalked (2022)
Plot Summary:
After her sister's murder, Nic, her younger sister and two friends seek solace through a Pacific island kayaking adventure. Hours into the trip the women are stalked by a shark and must band together, face their fears and save each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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47 Meters Down (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, natural horror, exciting, slasher, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, controversial
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Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
When shark conservationist Dr. Misty Calhoun is invited to consult on a top-secret project run by pharmaceutical billionaire Carl Durant, she is shocked to learn that the company is using unpredictable and highly aggressive bull sharks as its test subjects, which soon break loose and cause havoc.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, disturbing, psychotronic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, absurd
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Dogs (1977)
Plot Summary:
A pack of domesticated dogs go on a killing spree in southern California.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, natural horror, independent film
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The Last Shark (1981)
Plot Summary:
An enormous and angry 35 foot Great White Shark takes revenge on humans when they build a beach just for swimmers by a coastal town. After several shark attacks, and the Mayor does nothing to stop it, James Franisscus and Vic Morrow sail in pursuit to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: natural horror, grindhouse, mockbuster, cult classic, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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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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Capsized: Blood in the Water (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on the harrowing true story of an October 1982 shark encounter. After a yacht bound for Florida capsizes during an unexpected storm, its crew is left to drift for days in the chilling waters of the Atlantic where they become prey to a group of tiger sharks. With the hope of rescue dwindling, the crew must do everything in their power to survive as the sharks continue to hunt them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, suspense, realistic, disturbing, intense
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The Requin (2022)
Plot Summary:
A couple on a romantic getaway find themselves stranded at sea when a tropical storm sweeps away their villa. In order to survive, they are forced to fight the elements, while sharks circle below.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: brutal, emotional, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, bloody
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Open Water 3: Cage Dive (2017)
Plot Summary:
Three friends from California are filming an audition tape for an extreme reality game show. They document their journey to Australia where they will be doing their most dangerous activity.... Shark Cage Diving. A catastrophic turn of events leaves them in baited water full of Great White Sharks, turning their recording into a blood chilling diary of survival... and death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, bloody, intense, slasher, grindhouse, natural horror
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12 Days of Terror (2004)
Plot Summary:
July of 1916 was a time of record heat, a polio epidemic, and a World War in Europe. But beachgoers in New Jersey are threatened by a even greater terror: a shark that has suddenly developed a taste for human flesh. Starting July 1st and lasting over a period of 12 days, the unidentified shark kills four people and seriously injures a fifth before the attacks stop, and threatens New Jersey's thriving tourist industry. Based on true events, and one of the inspirations behind Peter Benchley's Jaws.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, natural horror, psychotronic
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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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Shark Night 3D (2011)
Plot Summary:
A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, natural horror, psychotronic, teen horror, surprise ending
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Beneath (2013)
Plot Summary:
Six high school seniors celebrating with day's excursion find themselves on rowboat attacked by man-eating fish and must decide who must be sacrificed as they fight their way back to shore.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, slasher, mumblecore, psychotronic, independent film
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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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Shark Week (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of complete strangers find themselves isolated by a wealthy madman on his island compound. They are forced into a horrifying gauntlet where they must survive a barrage of ever deadlier species of shark.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
Plot Summary:
Five backpackers, diving in a ruined underwater city, quickly learn they are not alone in the submerged caves.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, bloody, psychotronic, teen horror, natural horror, grindhouse, thrilling, surprise ending, independent film
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Shark Season (2020)
Plot Summary:
Dozens of great white sharks attack the sleepy coastal town of Goldcoast, CA, resulting in several deaths and forcing the town council to bring in a group of marine biologists and shark hunters to solve the problem. But when one shark in particular refuses to go down without a fight, it will take all of the biologists’ and hunters’ knowhow to defeat the creature for good.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 973
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, intense
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Jaws 2 (1978)
Plot Summary:
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, natural horror, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, gothic horror, splatter, detective, cult classic
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The Shallows (2016)
Plot Summary:
An injured surfer stranded on a buoy needs to get back to shore, but the great white shark stalking her might have other ideas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, minimal cast, exciting, suspense, tense, absurd, harsh, suspenseful, intense, natural horror
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Open Water (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, psychological, stylized, rough, natural horror, clever