Movies like Piranha
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Piranha (1978)
24K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Style:
natural horror, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse, rough, perverse, splatter, cult classic, humorous, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
piranha, killer fish, killer animal, fish, summer camp, beach, water, rescue, experiment, resort, race against time, animal attack, disaster, mutation, father daughter relationship, bare breasts, danger, swimming, deadly creature, shark, river, female nudity, creature feature, experiment gone awry, exploitation ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
vietnam, asia
Keyword:
attack, reboot, scuba, oldies, visit, gangsters, challenge
Most similar movies to Piranha
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, natural horror, suspenseful and psychotronic films with plots about killer animal, creature feature, animal attack, danger, deadly, creature and animal horror mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Piranha: The Swarm (1978), The Blob (1988), Man's Best Friend (1993), Shark Night 3D (2011), Tremors (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: France, USA, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have ...
Style:
scary, sexy, suspense, bloody, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
piranha, animal attack, killer animal, underwater, blood, dangerous animal, gory, boat, violence, monster, killer fish, nudity ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains ...
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, race against time, panic, small town, military, bee, survival, antidote, plague, danger, rescue ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
texas, houston texas, austin texas, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a science experiment goes horribly wrong, gigantic fish gain appetites for human flesh.
Style:
mockbuster, scary, semi serious, funny, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
piranha, creature feature, shark, monster, survival, experiment gone awry, creature, dangerous animal, save the day, escapades, danger, giant monster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
venezuela, usa, florida, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
43K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, alien, body horror, survival, evil alien, small town, space and aliens, quarantine, giant monster, creature feature, cheerleader, creature ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A dog turns from man's best friend into man's worst nightmare as he attacks everything that moves.
Style:
scary, intense, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, killer dog, chase, gory, monster, dog attack, animal attack, dangerous animal, animal, dog, survival, animal experimentation ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like The Meg
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
shark, shark attack, killer shark, creature feature, survival, killer animal, underwater, creature, water, dangerous animal, danger, youth ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Doctor Baines has been conducting genetic experiments on piranhas and has made them virtually unstoppable. Unfortunately, his assistants, Maggie and Paul, accidentally release the hybrids into the Lost River Lake threatening to destroy everyone in ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
piranha, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, summer camp, deadly creature, danger, mutant, gory, chaos, creature feature, killer animal, animal attack ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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%
149K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before ...
Style:
scary, entertaining, suspenseful, horror comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, creature feature, desert, survival, small town, deadly creature, creature, death, danger, stranded, rescue, mutant ...
Time:
90s, year 1990, future, 80s
Place:
nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, 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, suspense, absurd, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killer shark, monster, creature feature, shark attack, shark, sea monster, giant monster, mad scientist, killer animal, danger, dangerous animal, save the day ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Crawl similar movies
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sleepy New Haven California is a small town with a big problem. A sixty foot slithering horror has arrived and shattered the town's tranquillity on it's path of death and destruction... Growing violent and more savage with each attack the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, natural horror, queer horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
snake, giant snake, dangerous animal, killer animal, scientist, monster, race against time, deadly creature, creature, creature feature, danger, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, horror comedy, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
spider, creature feature, arachnophobia, jungle, expedition, monster, creature, killer animal, insect, dangerous animal, small town, animal ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, south america, venezuela, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, ...
Style:
scary, suspense, natural horror, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
crocodile, killer animal, dangerous animal, gory, sea monster, rescue, eaten alive, voyeur, investigation, escapades, danger, creature feature ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, jurassic
Place:
maine, new york, usa, boston, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. It's then up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff Sam Parker to mobilize ...
Style:
scary, humorous, suspense, absurd, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
giant spider, spider, creature feature, monster, creature, disaster, giant monster, stupidity, dumb, heroes, mad scientist, killer animal ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded lab rats, injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
Style:
scary, stylized, suspense, witty, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alligator, sewer, mutation, scientist, hunter, creature feature, urban legend, monster, toxic, animal attack, giant animal, creature ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, tense, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot:
shark, shark attack, animal attack, scientist, killer shark, female scientist, monster, sea, survival, research, predator, experiment ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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 ⇓
26%
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%
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 ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
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The Cave similar movies
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 ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Great white sharks bio-engineered to be the size of piranhas with the purpose of living in rich peoples exotic aquariums, terrorize New York City when they get into the water supply and do what great white sharks do best.
Style:
psychotronic, weird
Audience:
adult
Plot:
shark, killer animal, piranha, animal attack, creature feature, christmas, kaiju, shark attack, giant monster, sea monster, killer shark, creature ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
They're not human. But they hunt human women. Not for killing. For mating.
Style:
scary, grindhouse, intense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
exploitation, raped by monster, rape, monster, impregnation, survival, creature feature, female nudity, fishing village, mad scientist, fisherman, humanoid ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After being driven to extinction, great bloodthirsty dinosaurs come back to life with the assistance of a demented genetic scientist. She plans to replace the human race with a super-race of dinosaurs who will not pollute the planet.
Style:
scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
dinosaur, mad scientist, virus, creature feature, danger, genetics, creature, kaiju, chaos, deadly creature, tyrannosaurus rex, disorder ...
Time:
90s, prehistory, prehistoric times, jurassic
Place:
nevada, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Movies similar to Leviathan
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 ⇓
24%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more ...
Style:
natural horror, psychotronic, grindhouse, perverse, scary ...
Plot:
disaster, animal attack, creature feature, cockroach, killer animal, earthquake, monster, insect, fire, mutant, tiny, freak ...
Time:
year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Follows Jim Bickerman, a poacher who discovers that his local lake is inhabited by man-eating crocodiles.
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, natural horror, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
killer animal, crocodile, reptile, animal attack, dark humor, predator, creature, woman in danger, dangerous animal, escapades, danger, survival ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
shark, killer shark, ocean, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, danger, chaos, animal attack, genetic engineering, brutality, eaten alive, killer fish ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, mockumentary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
infection, parasite, found footage, disaster, virus, plague, disease, ecological disaster, apocalypse, infected, danger, small town ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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