Movies like Orca

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Orca (1977)
 5.7
 13K
Orca (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Italy, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at Captain Nolan's hands, a vengeful killer whale goes on a rampage in the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, Nolan, Rachel and Umilak sail after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, scary, independent film, grindhouse, depressing, gothic horror, nautical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: killer whale, whale, ocean, survival, killer animal, dangerous animal, ship, revenge, sea, fish, animal attack, obsession, shark, disaster, boat, water, animal, monster, rescue, fishing village, gory, murder, creature feature, killer fish, orca ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: newfoundland, antarctica
Keyword: ocean or sea, attack, scuba, italian horror, british horror

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Most similar movies to Orca

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and natural horror films with plots about creature, killer animal, danger, animal attack, creature feature, animal horror and monster mostly in Thriller, Adventure and Horror genres. Some movies like Orca: Jaws (1975), Red Water (2003), Backcountry (2014), Jaws 3-D (1983), The Reef (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 8.1
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Jaws (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
Style: scary, suspense, natural horror, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: shark, beach, ocean, shark attack, animal attack, creature feature, fear, monster, killer shark, underwater, survival, dangerous animal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oceania, persia, fictional island, boston, long island ...
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100%
 4.1
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Red Water (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, scary, serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, shark attack, killer shark, fugitives, dangerous animal, treasure hunt, hostage, gory, survival, rescue, anti hero, heroic mission ...
Place: louisiana, usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 24K
Backcountry (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, nature, camping, bear, dangerous animal, lost in the woods, danger, bear attack, lost, woods, forest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.7
 48K
Jaws 3-D (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspense, scary, natural horror, classic horror, anime ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, killer shark, boat, creature, fish, underwater, water, animal attack, amusement park, shark attack, creature feature, monster ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: florida, orlando florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Reef (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
Style: psychotronic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: underwater, shark, survival, ocean, creature feature, shark attack, killer shark, panic, dangerous animal, diving, killer animal, boat ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 84K
Jaws 2 (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Style: suspense, scary, natural horror, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: shark, killer shark, shark attack, survival, monster, creature feature, underwater, creature, boat, panic, fish, animal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: fictional island, usa, new england, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five backpackers, diving in a ruined underwater city, quickly learn they are not alone in the submerged caves.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, bloody, psychotronic, teen horror ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: shark, sea, underwater, panic, animal attack, killer shark, shark attack, fear, research, great white shark, survival horror, chase ...
Time: 2010s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The blood orchid - A rare flower that holds the secret of eternal life and a fortune to the pharmaceutical company that finds it. Led by a two-fisted soldier of fortune, a scientific expedition is sent deep into the jungles of Borneo to locate and ...
Style: suspense, scary, intense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot: jungle, snake, treasure hunt, animal attack, survival, expedition, monster, killer animal, dangerous animal, creature, eaten alive, greed ...
Time: jurassic, year 2004, 2000s
Place: borneo, new york, usa, indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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2010: Moby Dick (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: That infamous whale is bigger, badder and a whole lot stronger in this sci-fi reimagining of Herman Melville’s classic tale of the battle between man, sea and sea creature starring “Xena” alum Rene O’Connor as the (traditionally male) ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, mockbuster ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prehistoric animal, underwater, heroes, obsessive quest, obsession, danger, dangerous animal, chases and races, escapades, losing-it hero, rivalry, deadly creature ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.4
 3K
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%
 6.3
 143K
The Shallows (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An injured surfer stranded on a buoy needs to get back to shore, but the great white shark stalking her might have other ideas.
Style: scary, minimal cast, exciting, suspense, tense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: shark, survival, surfing, animal attack, creature feature, trapped, killer shark, shark attack, ocean, beach, sea, stranded ...
Time: year 2016, future, 2010s
Place: mexico, texas, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.7
 4K
Tentacles (1977)
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, deadly creature, beach, creature feature, gory, animal life, escapades, journalism ...
Time: 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 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 ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
24%
Spring Break Shark Attack (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young teenager travels to Florida, unknowing that a group of dangerous tiger sharks are ravaging the beach.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, natural horror, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: shark, shark attack, animal attack, survival, race against time, youth, dangerous animal, danger, teenage life, killer animal, killer shark, water ...
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.8
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Black Water (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A terrifying tale of survival in the mangrove swamps of Northern Australia.
Style: scary, realistic, suspenseful, rough, christmas horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: crocodile, survival, animal attack, swamp, trapped, tourist, couples, shark, killer animal, creature, vacation, creature feature ...
Time: 2000s
Place: australia, oceania
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23%
 2.8
 1K
Shark Zone (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man must hunt down ferocious sharks that are threatening a small beach community.
Style: scary, serious, realistic, rough, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, killer shark, killer animal, animal attack, water, shark attack, danger, treasure hunt, ship, beach, dangerous animal, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.8
 56K
Open Water (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: 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...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot: survival, shark, isolation, stranded, shark attack, diving, ocean, panic, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, water ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Last Shark (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: natural horror, grindhouse, mockbuster, cult classic, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, shark attack, great white shark, sea monster, killer shark, water, animal attack, exploitation, killer animal, creature feature, boat, beach ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
Shark Attack in the Mediterranean (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A prehistoric shark (named in the books "megalodon") lurks Mallorca, killing a couple of individuals. A professional diver begins the hunt.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, dark
Plot: shark attack, survival, shark, marine biologist, danger, dangerous animal, police officer, heroes, ocean, creature feature, creature, giant monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Shark Attack 2 (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A biological experiment goes bad, this time releasing a gaggle of mutated great white sharks with a taste for human flesh. Soon enough, shark expert Nick West is on the case, leading a crew to study them and eventually bring them back into ...
Style: rough, natural horror, mockbuster, suspense, fast ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: shark attack, monster, killer shark, shark, rescue, survival, killer animal, race against time, danger, animal attack, creature, sea monster ...
Time: 2000s
Place: cape town south africa, south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.3
 9K
Dark Tide (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa, Germany, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A traumatized shark expert (Halle Berry) must battle her own fears to lead a thrill-seeking businessman on a dive into a dangerous section of water known as "Shark Alley."
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: shark, ocean, shark attack, underwater, diver, scuba diving, dangerous animal, diving, haunted by the past, escapades, loss of partner, survival ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: africa, south africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Movie in collections
 5.2
 6K
Grizzly (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A fifteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into ...
Style: scary, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: grizzly bear, national park, camping, park ranger, hunter, creature feature, bear, wilderness, helicopter pilot, bear attack, animal attack, survival ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.2
 2K
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 ⇓
21%
Black Water: Abyss (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An adventure-loving couple convince their friends to explore a remote, uncharted cave system in the forests of Northern Australia. With a tropical storm approaching, they abseil into the mouth of the cave, but when the caves start to flood, tensions ...
Style: rough, suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Plot: survival, animal attack, crocodile, cave, survival horror, adventurer, dangerous animal, hunting, underwater, stranded, wilderness, beast ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (2002)
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: suspense, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, killer shark, animal attack, shark attack, killer animal, monster, dangerous animal, deadly creature, good versus evil, danger, ancient mystery, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pacific ocean, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 2.7
 4K
Devil Fish (1984)
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, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sea monster, shark, creature feature, deadly creature, danger, gory, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, escapades, uncover truth, seaport, shark attack ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: florida, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.4
 2K
Shark Swarm (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: A fisherman and his family fight to take down a greedy real estate developer who has released toxins into the ocean, turning the area's sharks into bloodthirsty hunters.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark attack, save the day, survival, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, anti hero, secret identity, deadly creature, killer animal, small town, resort, creature feature ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 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 ⇓
20%
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