Movies like The Rig 2010

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The Rig (2010)
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The Rig (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, psychotronic, natural horror, independent film, exciting, serious
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: sea monster, oil, creature feature, human versus monster, survival, isolation, deadly creature, supernatural, rescue, dangerous animal, escapades, danger, confined, forces of nature, creature, sea, evacuation, ghost ship, animal attack, shark, alien, ship, alien invasion, octopus, alien abduction ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: louisiana
Keyword: ocean or sea

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and psychotronic films with plots about danger, deadly, creature, creature feature, monster, escapades and animal attack mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Rig: Sector 7 (2011), Deep Rising (1998), Leviathan (1989), 2-Headed Shark Attack (2012), Underwater (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sector 7 (2011)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In Sector 7, an underwater oil field located south of Jeju Island, Hae-jun is working as a marine equipment manager on an oil prospecting ship called Eclipse. Joining the crew later is Jeong-man, a former colleague of Hae-jun's father, assigned ...
Style: exciting, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: oil rig, survival, ocean, sea monster, kaiju, deadly creature, isolation, confined, supernatural, danger, escapades, communication problem ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: korea, asia
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Deep Rising (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, futuristic, cult horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, sea monster, deadly creature, creature feature, tentacle, ship, ocean, killer animal, creature, ghost ship, survival horror, bermuda triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: bolivia, pacific ocean, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
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Leviathan (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ship, monster, creature feature, experiment gone awry, race against time, sea, survival, sea monster, ocean, suicide, survival horror, shipwreck ...
Time: 80s
Place: atlantic ocean, rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
2-Headed Shark Attack (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 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.
Style: scary, semi serious, suspenseful, natural horror, absurd ...
Audience: teens
Plot: shark, killer shark, dangerous animal, monster, deadly creature, danger, ship, shark attack, sea monster, escapades, creature feature, killer animal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.9
 96K
Underwater (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, lovecraft, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: underwater, creature, monster, giant monster, water, sea monster, creature feature, animal attack, earthquake, ocean, survival, destruction ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Octopus (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, scary, rough, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sea monster, octopus, creature feature, submarine, giant octopus, giant squid, save the day, deadly creature, dangerous animal, danger, monster, animal attack ...
Time: jurassic, 90s
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
Style: scary, slasher, natural horror, perverse, spoof ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, shark, killer animal, piranha, creature feature, animal attack, fish, underwater, scuba diving, sea, gory, island ...
Time: 80s
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Untold (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on actual accounts, The Untold is the story of Harlan Knowles, billionaire and President of Bio-Comp Industries who heads up a team of experts in a quest to locate a company plane that disappeared over the remote forests of the Pacific ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, scary, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: experiment gone awry, sasquatch, grizzly bear, bigfoot, missing person, supernatural, survival, rescue, danger, legends and myths, heroic mission, dangerous animal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Rift (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", with a very experienced crew is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously dissapeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, futuristic ...
Plot: underwater, submarine, creature feature, ghost ship, monster, survival, secret experiment, rescue, danger, deadly creature, supernatural, infection ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Sea Beast (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the fishing village of Cedar Bay, terror lies within the water. And now it has surfaced in search of something more substantial to devour than marine life: human flesh. A captain and a sea biologist must wage a terrifying battle against the ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: sea monster, creature feature, killer animal, monster, fishing boat, creature, survival, imaginary, rescue, supernatural, danger, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Blackout (2009)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: It's Christmas Eve, the city goes dark, and the few remaining tenants of The Ravenwood find themselves trapped in their building. And they are not alone.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, disgusting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature, survival, deadly creature, isolation, monster, christmas, invasion, danger, confined, supernatural, creature feature, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Arachnid (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Arachnid is a 2001 film directed by Jack Sholder. In this movie, giant killer spiders menace survivors of a plane crash.
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, natural horror, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: spider, giant spider, creature feature, mutation, survival, island, cocoon, insect, heroic mission, alien, isolation, danger ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Deadly Descent: The Abominable Snowman (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Friends go on a snowy adventure and come face to face with a deadly creature.
Style: rough, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: mountain, skiing, isolation, deadly creature, survival, danger, bigfoot, friendship, supernatural, snow, winter, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.7
 5K
Sand Sharks (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the beach, it appears that our large fishy friends have found a way to chomp on you when you're chilling out on the sand too!
Style: scary, semi serious, suspense, tense, natural horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: killer animal, killer shark, shark, shark attack, lifeguard, sea monster, deadly creature, supernatural, dangerous animal, danger, gory, creature feature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Snakes on a Train (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Under a powerful Mayan curse, snakes are hatched inside a young woman, slowly devouring her from within. Her only chance for survival is a powerful shaman who lives across the border. With only hours to live, she jumps on a train headed for Los ...
Style: mockbuster, suspense, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, curse, train, giant snake, deadly creature, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, confined, killer animal, characters killed one by one, transformation ...
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After chomping through the fish population, thousands of starved lampreys begin attacking the citizens of a sleepy lake town, and the community scrambles to stay alive.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, absurd, natural horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, dangerous animal, rescue, danger, social relations, small town, monster, killer animal, husband wife relationship, creature feature, killer fish, animal attack ...
Time: 21st century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lake Placid 3 (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A game warden moves his family to Lake Placid, once the site of deadly crocodile attacks. Locals assure him the crocs are gone, but his mischievous young son finds a few baby crocs and begins feeding them. They quickly grow into very big adults and ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, semi serious, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: animal attack, crocodile, killer animal, killer crocodile, dangerous animal, creature, danger, survival, disorder, female pubic hair, voyeur, bare breasts ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
5 Headed Shark Attack (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: scary, exciting, suspenseful, tense, rough ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: shark, shark attack, monster, animal attack, eaten alive, danger, death, lifestyle, survival, gory, ambition, fear ...
Place: puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Blood Surf (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A sleazy producer develops a concept he dubs "blood surfing" -- tossing bloody fish remains into the water to lure sharks and then surfing through the animals as they chomp about. Along with his camerawoman, the producer brings two ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, natural horror, perverse ...
Plot: crocodile, surfing, island, dangerous animal, creature feature, giant animal, killer animal, teenager, heroes, danger, escapades, rivalry ...
Time: jurassic, 90s
Place: florida, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Beyond Loch Ness (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: James Murphey is a rugged cryptozoologist, who thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, had a fatal encounter with the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed his father, and left James with deep facial scar. Twenty years ...
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, mythical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dangerous animal, sea monster, killer animal, creature feature, loch ness monster, lost world, abandoned mine, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, danger, gory ...
Time: jurassic, year 1976, 2000s
Place: scotland, europe, scottish highlands, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Dinosaur Project (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Found footage of an expedition into the Congo jungle where a team of explorers stumbles upon a colony of Dinosaurs.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: dinosaur, jungle, cryptozoology, dangerous animal, found footage, survival, adventurer, lost world, scientist, discovery, escapades, creature feature ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: congo, africa, somalia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.7
 336
Phantom Force (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A squad of soldiers must protect the human race from the supernatural.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, exciting, rough ...
Plot: space and aliens, supernatural, good versus evil, terrorism, danger, imaginary, ghost, heroes, superhuman powers, escapades, gory, custody ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.2
 1K
Shark Hunter (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 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. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, underwater, shark attack, survival, obsessive quest, dangerous animal, heroic mission, deadly creature, race against time, obsession, escapades, rescue ...
Time: prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Raging Sharks (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An oceanic observation station is in desperate trouble after a sudden shark attack wrecked the oxygen supply. The accompanying ship, a coast guard cruiser, and other ships in and around the Bermuda triangle are attacked as well. The US Navy sends a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, underwater, shark attack, monster, killer shark, creature feature, murder, experiment, beach, fear, diving, survival ...
Time: 70s
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.1
 2K
SharkMan (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Aruba, USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 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.
Style: suspense, serious, scary, rough, natural horror ...
Plot: shark, creature feature, mad scientist, island, killer shark, supernatural, danger, vengeance, escapades, rivalry, heroes, gory ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 2.9
 2K
Megalodon (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Megalodon is a 2002 American shark film. It takes place out on a deep sea oil rig.
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, natural horror, suspense
Plot: shark, dangerous animal, killer shark, shark attack, danger, escapades, isolation, forces of nature, monster, creature, killer animal, animal attack ...
Time: jurassic, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, scary, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, monster, survival, creature, sole survivor, deadly creature, supernatural, survival horror, gory, expedition, claustrophobia, missing person ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 35K
King Kong (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In this remake of the 1933 classic about the giant ape, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of Kong and brings him back to New York to exploit him. Even though a woman somewhat tames Kong, he finally breaks loose and terrorizes the city, ...
Style: suspense, daikaiju, natural horror, depressing, fairy tale ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: king kong, beast, monster, gorilla, giant monster, kaiju, giant ape, giant snake, world trade center manhattan new york city, island, full moon, survival ...
Time: 70s, prehistoric times, jurassic, year 1976, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, fictional island, asia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Raptor Island (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: lost world, creature feature, soldier, kaiju, battles, military, deadly creature, danger, chaos, survival, escapades, rescue ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.3
 13K
DeepStar Six (1989)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The crew of an experimental underwater nuclear base are forced to struggle for their lives when their explorations disturb a creature who threatens to destroy their base.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sea monster, underwater, survival, creature feature, race against time, giant monster, ghost ship, alien, disaster, rescue, shark, space ...
Time: future, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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