Movies like Sharknado
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Sharknado (2013)
56K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar-owner Fin sets out with his friends Baz and Nova to rescue his estranged wife April and teenage daughter Claudia.
Style:
absurd, grindhouse, funny, horror comedy, natural horror, spoof, retro, scenic, creepy, cult horror ...
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
shark, killer shark, beach, stupidity, creature feature, animal attack, gory, danger, chaos and mayhem, fish, shark attack, eaten alive, creature, monster, flood, water, boat, absurdism, sea monster, exploitation, halloween, killer fish, apocalypse, giant monster, giant animal ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 80s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, united states of america
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Most similar movies to Sharknado
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychotronic, suspense, weird and suspenseful films with plots about creature feature, shark, animal attack, animal horror, sea creature, killer shark and giant animal mostly in Horror, Action and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Sharknado: Toxic Shark (2017), Dinoshark (2010), Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009), Super Shark (2011), Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Fin and his wife April travel around the world to save their young son who's trapped inside a sharknado.
Style:
spoof, apocalyptic, humorous, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
shark, killer shark, natural disaster, stupidity, monster, animal attack, time travel, parents and children, escapades, chaos and mayhem, heroes, struggle for survival ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a Sharknado on the population and its most cherished, iconic sites - and only Fin and April can save the Big Apple.
Style:
humorous, suspense, exciting, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
disaster, shark, creature, killer shark, natural disaster, eaten alive, runaway, monster, chaos, danger, chaos and mayhem, heroes ...
Time:
year 2014, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, north america, los angeles
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A tropical singles retreat takes a terrifying turn when guests realize a poisonous shark is infesting the surrounding water. Not only will it rip apart its victims, but it also uses projectile acid to hunt - in and out of the water.
Style:
intense, absurd, suspenseful, suspense, mockbuster ...
Plot:
shark, killer shark, shark attack, giant animal, summer vacation, mutant, infected, creature feature, monster, creature, survival, race against time ...
Place:
puerto rico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
With much of America lying in ruins, the rest of the world braces for a global sharknado, Fin and his family must travel around the world to stop them.
Style:
parody, suspense, exciting, humorous, absurd ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
shark, shark attack, creature feature, tyrannosaurus rex, killer shark, time travel, eaten alive, animal attack, heroes, absurdism, survival, brutality ...
Place:
santa monica california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film opens with a baby dinoshark swimming away from a broken chunk of Arctic glacier that calved due to global warming. Three years later, the dinoshark is a ferocious predatory adult and kills tourists and locals offshore from Puerto Vallarta, ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized ...
Plot:
killer shark, shark, shark attack, creature feature, dangerous animal, eaten alive, underwater, monster, dinosaur, danger, gory, giant monster ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
100%
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, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The new installment of the Sharknado franchise takes place 5 years after Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! There have been no Sharknados in the intervening years, but now they’re appearing again in unexpected ways.
Style:
parody, captivating, semi serious, spoof, natural horror ...
Plot:
shark, creature feature, shark attack, animal attack, surrealism, human versus monster, silly humor, destruction, struggle for survival, man versus nature, human versus animal, battles ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
las vegas, kansas, austin texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An offshore drilling accident triggers the release of a giant prehistoric shark. When marine biologist Kat Carmichael arrives, she runs up against corporate front man Roger Wade, who plots with Stewart to disrupt her investigation. With the help of ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, psychotronic, natural horror, mockbuster ...
Plot:
giant monster, killer shark, creature feature, eaten alive, shark attack, dangerous animal, marine biologist, danger, deadly creature, escapades, killer animal, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The sharks take bite out of the East Coast when the sharknado hits Washington, D.C. and Orlando, Florida.
Style:
parody, bloody, absurd, surreal, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
disaster, shark, shark attack, president, space shuttle, creature feature, catastrophe, amusement park, fish, animal attack, natural disaster, space ...
Place:
washington d.c., orlando florida, florida, north america, usa ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When the prehistoric warm-water beast the Crocosaurus crosses paths with that cold-water monster the Mega Shark, all hell breaks loose in the oceans as the world's top scientists explore every option to halt the aquatic frenzy. Swallowing ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, creepy, natural horror, psychotronic ...
Plot:
shark, giant animal, creature feature, crocodile, monster versus monster, monster, government agent, battles, shark attack, alligator, kaiju, giant monster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
congo, florida, hawaii, africa, caribbean
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:
21st century
Place:
latin america, usa, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The world’s greatest killing machine is three times as deadly when a mutated shark threatens a cruise ship. As the shark eats its way from one end of the ship to the next, the passengers fight the deadly predator using anything they can find.
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, intense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
shark, eaten alive, absurdism, cruise ship, shark attack, creature feature, monster, beach, machete, fisherman, giant animal, animal attack ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
What is supposed to be a marriage boot camp on a remote island turns into the ultimate test for survival when a 6-headed shark starts attacking the beach. Trapped with minimal weapons they try to fight off the shark, but quickly discover that no one ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, absurd, scary, exciting ...
Plot:
shark, giant animal, killer shark, shark attack, mutant, natural disaster, animal attack, creature feature, chases and races, race against time, danger, dangerous animal ...
Time:
year 1984
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of skiers are terrorized during spring break by some sharks that swim through the snow.
Avalanche Sharks tells the story of a bikini contest that turns into a horrifying affair when it is hit by a shark avalanche.
Style:
sexy, suspense, semi serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
shark attack, killer shark, shark, curse, animal attack, creature feature, giant animal, sea creature, kaiju, water, creature, danger ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
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, shark attack, deadly creature, danger, ship, monster, eaten alive, sea monster, creature feature, dangerous animal, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida
Similarity:
83%
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:
rough, tense, scary, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
shark, animal attack, shark attack, monster, eaten alive, danger, gory, lifestyle, underwater, death, ambition, fear ...
Place:
puerto rico
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, cult classic, natural horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
crocodile, killer animal, dangerous animal, water, gory, rescue, sea monster, eaten alive, swamp, dark humor, escapades, danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, jurassic
Place:
new york, maine, usa, boston, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Thailand, Germany, Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.
Style:
psychotronic, captivating, suspenseful, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
creature feature, shark, disaster, tyrannosaurus rex, megalodon, giant octopus, dinosaur, sea creature, shark attack, marriage proposal, eaten alive, sea ...
Time:
jurassic, 2020s
Similarity:
100%
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, suspenseful, suspense, absurd, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
shark, animal attack, killer animal, piranha, creature feature, shark attack, killer shark, christmas, giant monster, sea monster, kaiju, creature ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
When an oil company unwittingly unleashes a prehistoric shark from its icy prison, the Jurassic killer maroons a group of art thieves and a group of college students on an abandoned island
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, natural horror ...
Plot:
monster, giant monster, creature feature, killer shark, animal attack, eaten alive, lake, sea creature, giant animal, kaiju, water, creature ...
Time:
jurassic
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
What starts off as a typical day on the streets of Seattle soon becomes a terrifying bloodbath, when a great white shark devours an alien space probe…and ROBOSHARK is born. The U.S. military comes after it with guns blazing, but it’s the power ...
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, absurd, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
shark attack, shark, animal attack, killer animal, giant monster, giant animal, sea creature, social media, cyborgs, aeroplane, aircraft, warship ...
Place:
seattle, pacific ocean, washington state, north america, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The seemingly tranquil waterways of Venice are terrorized by the perfect killing machine. In search of his father who has mysteriously disappeared diving in the city, David stumbles across the cryptic trail leading to the long-lost fortune of the ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
shark, shark attack, killer shark, lost treasure, rescue, escapades, chase, dangerous animal, rivalry, danger, survival, monster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
venice, italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dr. Emma Collins and her team are spending their third summer on the island of Little Happy studying the effect of climate change on the great white sharks who come to the nearby nursery every year to give birth. Along with the last two inhabitants ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, tense, intense ...
Plot:
shark, shark attack, animal attack, science runs amok, characters killed one by one, underwater, female scientist, killer shark, decapitation, sinking boat, experiment gone awry, boat ...
Similarity:
100%
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15K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, ...
Style:
slasher, scary, grindhouse, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, toxic, police investigation, gory, creature feature, experiment gone awry, survival, danger, murder, exploitation, creature, violence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, lifeguard, killer shark, shark, shark attack, sea monster, supernatural, dangerous animal, deadly creature, danger, gory, creature feature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A tropical storm floods Soggy Meadows trailer park and forces a hungry shark upriver.
Style:
tense, suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
shark, shark attack, killer shark, predator, animal attack, monster, water, killer animal, trailer park, flood, canine, narration ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, 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:
perverse, exciting, suspense, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
shark, shark attack, scientist, animal attack, killer shark, female scientist, monster, sea, research, survival, eaten alive, predator ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Many years ago, hundreds of locals and tourists were massacred by giant man-eating sharks in the infamous 1916 Jersey Shore attacks. But that's just a legend... or is it? It's a holiday weekend on the Jersey Shore and, unbeknownst to ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
animal attack, killer shark, dangerous animal, beach, shark attack, danger, save the day, ocean, killer animal, shark, blood, water ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Lucinda Regis, Director of Development at MALCO Oceanic Research, becomes the target of a dangerous killer after unraveling a sinister plot to inject sharks with human DNA.
Style:
mockbuster, psychotronic, absurd, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
shark, animal attack, monster, creature feature, killer shark, killer animal, beach, giant monster, sea monster, shark attack, creature, sharksploitation ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Voracious sharks use human bodies to build dams.
Style:
natural horror, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot:
shark, monster, shark attack, animal attack, killer animal, creature feature, creature, killer shark, giant animal, dam, sharksploitation, murder ...
Similarity:
27%
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