Movies like The Shallows
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The Shallows (2016)
153K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
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:
exciting, tense, suspense, harsh, suspenseful, intense, natural horror, minimal cast, slasher, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
shark, survival, surfing, animal attack, killer shark, shark attack, trapped, ocean, creature feature, great white shark, stranded, beach, sea, strong female character, island, courage, surfer, beautiful scenery, underwater, tough girl, death, fear, victim, danger, woman in jeopardy ...
Time:
year 2016, future, 2010s
Place:
mexico, texas, tijuana mexico, australia, american
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Most similar movies to The Shallows
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, scary and natural horror films with plots about animal horror, animal attack, survival, water, monster, creature feature and danger mostly in Horror, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Shallows: Crawl (2019), 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019), Open Water (2003), Black Water (2007), The Meg (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
102K
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
While struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, a young woman finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators.
Style:
suspense, natural horror, slasher, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
animal attack, trapped, disaster, survival, flood, alligator, creature feature, natural disaster, hurricane, survival horror, crocodile, killer animal ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
florida
Similarity:
95%
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:
bloody, suspense, suspenseful, teen horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
shark, sea, underwater, animal attack, panic, research, shark attack, great white shark, survival horror, chase, rescue, killer shark ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
100%
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:
scary, suspense, sexy, clever, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, shark, shark attack, stranded, diving, ocean, panic, isolation, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, fish ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
caribbean, australia
Similarity:
100%
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, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
crocodile, swamp, animal attack, survival, couples, shark, tourist, creature, vacation, creature feature, survival horror, danger ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
226K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, light, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, adult
Plot:
shark, giant monster, giant animal, underwater, sea monster, giant creature, killer shark, animal attack, ocean, professor, killer animal, survival ...
Time:
jurassic, 2010s, prehistory, 21st century
Place:
shanghai, usa, asia, pacific ocean, california ...
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Dominican Republic
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, natural horror, suspenseful ...
Plot:
shark, shark attack, survival, ocean, animal attack, killer animal, great white shark, underwater, rescue, diver, creature feature, killer shark ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
mexico, greece
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A military vessel on the search for an unidentified submersible finds themselves face to face with a giant shark, forced to use only what they have on board to defend themselves from the monstrous beast.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, atmospheric, mockbuster ...
Plot:
shark, giant animal, prehistoric animal, animal attack, prehistoric creature, shark attack, creature feature, creature, monster, killer shark, rescue, human versus animal ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
22K
Genre: Adventure, 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, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, underground horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
underwater, survival, ocean, shark, shark attack, killer shark, creature feature, panic, dangerous animal, death, tourist, diving ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
21K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Australia, Singapore, China
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a 12-foot great white shark.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
shark attack, killer shark, flood, tsunami, supermarket, shark, killer animal, great white shark, eaten alive, water, animal attack, creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
July of 1916 was a time of record heat, a polio epidemic, and a World War in Europe. But beachgoers in New Jersey are threatened by a even greater terror: a shark that has suddenly developed a taste for human flesh. Starting July 1st and lasting ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, scary, natural horror ...
Plot:
shark, animal attack, killer shark, killer animal, shark attack, beach, creature feature, creature, water, sea monster, danger, death ...
Time:
year 1916, 2000s, 1910s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, 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, exciting ...
Plot:
survival, animal attack, crocodile, survival horror, cave, hunting, underwater, stranded, dangerous animal, wilderness, adventurer, beast ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
100%
730K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, 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:
suspense, scary, classic horror, natural horror, sexy ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night, horror for children, adult
Plot:
shark, animal attack, shark attack, creature feature, ocean, beach, fear, killer shark, boat, monster, dangerous animal, great white shark ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
boston, fictional island, persia, oceania, long island ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After her sister's murder, Nic, her younger sister and two friends seek solace through a Pacific island kayaking adventure. Hours into the trip the women are stalked by a shark and must band together, face their fears and save each other.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
sea creature, shark, murder, animal attack, animal, monster, killer animal, shark attack, survival, struggle for survival, killer shark, woman in danger ...
Place:
australia, papua new guinea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A couple on a romantic getaway find themselves stranded at sea when a tropical storm sweeps away their villa. In order to survive, they are forced to fight the elements, while sharks circle below.
Style:
brutal, emotional, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
shark, killer shark, great white shark, sea, shark attack, survival, fight, ocean, storm at sea, husband and wife, water, struggle for survival ...
Place:
southeast asia, vietnam
Similarity:
100%
36K
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
From the director of Wolf Creek comes this terrifying look at nature's perfect killing machine. When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, scenic, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
crocodile, animal attack, monster, creature, dangerous animal, survival horror, gory, killer animal, river, isolation, creature feature, disaster ...
Time:
jurassic, 70s, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
Style:
suspense, christmas horror, scary, natural horror, classic horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
shark, shark attack, animal attack, killer shark, revenge, water, boat, killer animal, underwater, creature, christmas, sea ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
bahamas, caribbean
Similarity:
100%
92K
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:
natural horror, suspense, scary, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
shark, animal attack, survival, killer shark, monster, sea adventure, shark attack, creature feature, panic, underwater, creature, boat ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
fictional island, usa, new england, new york
Similarity:
100%
273K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
Style:
suspenseful, harsh, bad ending, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, hunting, wolf, dangerous animal, wolf attack, forces of nature, struggle for survival, wilderness survival, stranded ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
Similarity:
67%
Movie in collections
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Malta
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A group of friends enjoying a weekend steal a couple of jetskis racing them out to sea, ending up in a horrific head-on collision. They struggle to find a way home with a badly injured friend while from the waters below predators lurk.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating
Plot:
killer animal, shark, animal attack, shark attack, sea creature, monster, group of friends, predator, ocean, survival, great white shark, water ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Based on the harrowing true story of an October 1982 shark encounter. After a yacht bound for Florida capsizes during an unexpected storm, its crew is left to drift for days in the chilling waters of the Atlantic where they become prey to a group of ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, intense, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot:
shark attack, killer shark, shark, survival, storm at sea, disaster, boat, natural disaster, wilderness survival, wilderness, struggle for survival, sea disaster ...
Time:
20th century, year 1982
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school friends. They forget to let the ladder down before they jump into the ocean for a swim. The boat proves impossible to climb. They are stuck in the water ...
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, family in danger, human nature, yacht, drowning, danger, social relations, sea, uninhibited rivalry, diving, shipwreck, survival horror ...
Place:
mexico, latin america
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%
107K
Genre: Action, Adventure, 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, giant monster, monster, sea monster, animal attack, creature feature, water, cthulhu, ocean, earthquake, giant creature ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
56%
Movie in collections
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A savvy and free-spirited surfer is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer. Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.
Style:
psychological horror, suspenseful, compassionate, sinister, psychological thriller
Plot:
shark, serial killer, shark attack, female protagonist, kidnapping, bare chested male, female nudity, sea, boat, defiant, killer shark, held captive ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
100%
151K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Australia, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
On a remote former submarine refueling facility called Aquatica, a team of scientists are searching for a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Susan McAlester genetically engineers three Mako sharks, intending to increase their brain capacity so ...
Style:
suspenseful, entertaining, perverse, intense, natural horror ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
shark, survival, shark attack, laboratory, creature feature, dangerous animal, killer shark, killer animal, genetic engineering, experiment gone awry, giant animal, monster ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, pacific ocean
Similarity:
67%
15K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, USA, UK, Italy
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 ...
Style:
harsh, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
killer whale, whale, survival, ocean, killer animal, animal attack, sea, vengeance, ship, revenge, fish, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
newfoundland, antarctica
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After her lousy stepfather steals her savings to buy a vicious tiger, Kelly loses all hope of going to college. But Kelly's situation worsens when a hurricane leaves her and her autistic brother boarded up in their house with the man-eating ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
animal attack, autism, wild animal, dangerous animal, trapped, tiger, killer animal, home invasion, danger, creature feature, woman in danger, hurricane ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Similarity:
74%
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:
animal attack, shark, survival, dangerous animal, youth, race against time, danger, teenage life, killer animal, shark attack, killer shark, water ...
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
serious, realistic, scary, rough, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
animal attack, killer animal, killer shark, shark, shark attack, danger, treasure hunt, heroes, escapades, dangerous animal, ship, beach ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.
Style:
natural horror, queer horror, grindhouse, independent film, serious ...
Plot:
shark attack, shark, killer animal, water, animal attack, sea monster, killer shark, sea creature, killer fish, boat, swimmer, menage a trois ...
Time:
70s
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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