Movies like Octopus 2000
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Octopus (2000)
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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 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...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, scary, rough, natural horror, suspense, serious, psychotronic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sea monster, giant octopus, octopus, creature feature, giant squid, submarine, deadly creature, save the day, danger, monster, animal attack, killer animal, military, nuclear submarine, creature, kaiju, die hard, missile, cuban missile crisis, giant monster, shark, sea, water, boat, crisis ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s
Place:
cuba
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, natural horror and suspenseful films with plots about animal attack, deadly, creature feature, danger, monster, escapades and animal horror mostly in Action, Horror and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Octopus: Raptor Island (2004), Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (2002), Poseidon Rex (2013), Sea Beast (2008), The Beast (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, suspenseful, rough, scary, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
lost world, creature feature, dangerous animal, soldier, kaiju, battles, deadly creature, danger, military, chaos, survival, ancient mystery ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Israel, South Africa, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When two researchers discover a colossal shark's tooth off the Mexican coast their worst fears surface - the most menacing beast to ever rule the waters is still alive and mercilessly feeding on anything that crosses its path. Now they must ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
animal attack, killer shark, shark, shark attack, killer animal, bare breasts, female nudity, monster, dangerous animal, deadly creature, danger, ancient mystery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, pacific ocean, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Belize
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Jackson Slate, famous treasure hunter, is out to find the legendary Lost Gold Of Cortez in the open waters off a secluded island in the Caribbean Sea. Using dynamite to blast his way through centuries of silt, new chasms are created reaching miles ...
Style:
scary, exciting, suspense, rough, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
latin america, caribbean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dead bodies are being found in New York harbor. The police have no clues nor suspects until Nick and his colleague realize the killer is a giant octopus. Everybody, especially the police captain, refuses to believe Nick's story, and soon the ...
Style:
semi serious, scary, natural horror, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
octopus, giant octopus, giant animal, monster, creature feature, sea monster, animal attack, riddles and clues, danger, dangerous animal, underwater, sea creature ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the sea.
Style:
absurd, stylized, tense, exciting, hilarious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
shark, giant monster, underwater, giant octopus, octopus, monster, creature feature, kaiju, sharksploitation, killer shark, giant animal, fish ...
Time:
prehistory, 80s
Place:
alaska, usa, california, japan
Similarity:
100%
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, suspenseful, rough, serious, scary ...
Plot:
fishing boat, creature feature, sea monster, monster, creature, survival, deadly creature, imaginary, danger, supernatural, rescue, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 88 min.
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Story:
Fishing and jobs are becoming scarce in the small seaport village of Graves Point, when mysterious deaths and unexplained disappearances begin to occur. Divers vanish and a young couple disappears at sea, their empty raft washing up on the shore. ...
Style:
natural horror, suspenseful, psychotronic, serious, wild
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
giant squid, creature feature, squid, water, underwater, animal attack, sea, giant octopus, beast, creature, giant monster, shark ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marine biologist Jack Ellway and his son Brandon are drawn to the Polynesian island of Malau to study the effects of recent seismic activity on the area's marine life. Along with the local doctor Alyson Hart, they soon become caught up in the ...
Style:
scary, serious, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
giant monster, monster, kaiju, sea monster, animal attack, octopus, giant creature, ocean, paparazzi, evacuation, supernatural, dangerous animal ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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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, natural horror, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
human versus monster, sea monster, sea, sea creature, oil, creature feature, isolation, survival, deadly creature, forces of nature, dangerous animal, escapades ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A scientific expedition to Loch Ness runs into trouble when the group leader is killed in a mysterious diving accident. Soon after, when the unorthodox Professor Howell shows up to take over as leader of the group, more strange incidents and attacks ...
Style:
dark, scary, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
loch ness monster, dangerous animal, deadly creature, supernatural, obsessive quest, chaos and mayhem, young heroes, mad scientist, legends and myths, creature, monster, violence ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
europe, scotland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
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, surprise ending, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underwater, sea monster, creature feature, race against time, giant monster, ghost ship, survival, disaster, sea creature, shark, ship, alien invasion ...
Time:
future, prehistory, 80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.
Style:
suspense, scary, serious, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sea monster, shark, creature feature, deadly creature, danger, experiment gone awry, gory, escapades, uncover truth, mad scientist, seaport, killer shark ...
Time:
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Place:
florida, caribbean
Similarity:
100%
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, suspenseful, rough, scary, mythical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
12K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
Style:
scary, intense, rough, suspenseful, saga ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
bat, disaster, animal attack, mad scientist, small town, supernatural, creature feature, monster, dangerous animal, mutation, danger, save the day ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
taiwan, korea, asia, okinawa japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
crocodile, killer animal, swamp, creature feature, monster, confined, daring rescue, criminal heroes, chases and races, danger, wilderness, animal attack ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form of a terrifying flying beast that tries killing them all.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, natural horror ...
Plot:
killer animal, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, friends, accident, giant bird, redneck, brutality, creature, terror, ogre, curse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
100%
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, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
deadly creature, monster, sea monster, creature feature, ship, ocean, tentacle, killer animal, creature, ghost ship, bermuda triangle, apocalypse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
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Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A team of soldiers must stop a giant, bloodthirsty crocodile from reaching a nearby city, while trying to avoid being a meal for the beast themselves.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
semi serious, scary, absurd, suspense, spoof ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killer shark, creature feature, shark attack, sea monster, shark, monster, giant monster, mad scientist, killer animal, dangerous animal, danger, save the day ...
Time:
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Place:
latin america, usa, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, 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:
serious, exciting, scary, suspenseful, crying ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
oil rig, kaiju, sea monster, survival, sea creature, ocean, communication problem, deadly creature, isolation, danger, escapades, supernatural ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
korea, asia
Similarity:
100%
212K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
When a freighter is viciously attacked in the Pacific Ocean, a team of experts -- including biologist Niko Tatopoulos and scientists Elsie Chapman and Mendel Craven -- concludes that an oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
serious, tense, experimental, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
giant snake, snake, mad scientist, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, animal attack, escapades, small town, martial arts, science runs amok, shark, laboratory ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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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, suspense, fast, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
shark, underwater, shark attack, survival, obsessive quest, dangerous animal, heroic mission, danger, race against time, escapades, rescue, obsession ...
Time:
prehistory
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An American scientist up to no good (as usual) by creating the half-pterodactyl, half-barracuda: Pteracuda. When the creature inevitably escapes, it's up to Sharktopus to stop him.
Style:
suspense, captivating, natural horror, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
shark, sea monster, monster, monster versus monster, scientist, creature feature, genetic engineering, beach, giant monster, killer animal, fish, marine biologist ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Six American grad students have arrived in Africa to study apes with a renowned professor. But after setting up camp in a jungle clearing, they soon become witness to the carnage inflicted by the strange and remote species.
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Plot:
chimpanzee, creature feature, anthropology, survival, isolation, dangerous animal, wilderness, captivity, danger, escapades, killer animal, monkey ...
Time:
jurassic
Place:
asia, africa, australia, thailand
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. The scientists have no idea which animal could do such things. Dr. Turner begins to suspect that the company which builds a ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, natural horror ...
Plot:
octopus, dangerous animal, sea, giant animal, danger, beach, creature feature, gory, animal life, escapades, journalism, resort ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This menacing monster yarn stars James Van Der Beek as government scientist Dan Leland, who's sent to investigate reported sightings of a giant squidlike beast that's put the entire population of a fishing village on edge. Though Leland ...
Style:
suspense, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Thirty years ago, Ray Reiter witnessed the brutal death of his parents at sea by a strange, octopus-like creature. Now determined to exact revenge, he joins archaeologist Nicole on a perilous high-seas expedition to find a legendary Greek Opal - ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, natural horror, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
sea monster, treasure hunt, giant squid, creature feature, danger, escapades, adventurer, survival, vengeance, creature, deadly creature, animal attack ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
50%
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, isolation, danger, escapades, forces of nature, monster, creature, killer animal, animal attack, water ...
Time:
jurassic, prehistory
Similarity:
28%
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