Movies like The Shark Hunter

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The Shark Hunter (1979)
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The Shark Hunter (1979)
Original name: Il cacciatore di squali
Genre: Adventure
Country: Italy, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A crusty recluse on a Caribbean island who is dedicated to destroying sharks gets involved in a hunt for buried treasure.
Plot: shark, island, beast, animal attack, underwater, martial arts, violence, car chase, evil man, creature feature, shootout, gunfight, animal horror, explosion

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Most similar movies to The Shark Hunter

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, natural horror and psychotronic films with plots about shark, animal horror, animal attack, creature feature, shark attack, killer shark and killer animal mostly in Adventure, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like The Shark Hunter: The Treasure of Jamaica Reef (1974), Shark Kill (1976), Shark Huntress (2021), Fer-de-Lance (1974), Spies, Inc. (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Treasure of Jamaica Reef (1974)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An adventure film about the search for a more than 200-year-old treasure on the ocean floor.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: shark, sunken treasure, ocean, caribbean sea, animal attack, swing, shark attack, killer shark, treasure hunt, scuba diving, shipwreck, murder ...
Place: jamaica, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 4.0
 129
Shark Kill (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Two adventurers set sail to find a giant man-eating great white shark.
Style: natural horror, psychotronic
Plot: shark, killer animal, shark attack, killer shark, underwater, killer fish, creature feature, warning, skepticism, great white shark, diver, marine biologist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 1.5
 300
Shark Huntress (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Shelia, an environmentalist venturing into the deep sea to capitalize on the billion-dollar plastic industry encounters deadly enhanced sharks. She wants revenge… it wants blood.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, harsh, exciting
Plot: shark, animal attack, shark attack, creature feature, sharksploitation, monster, human versus monster, sea monster, monster attack, giant monster, sea, water ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 4.9
 182
Fer-de-Lance (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: boat, submarine, snake, animal attack, die hard, killer snake, ocean, trapped, underwater, investigation, creature feature, accident ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Movie in collections
 4.0
 124
Spies, Inc. (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Spies from different nationalities stationed in a small Asian island work out a plot to create an international incident taking profit from it. Defrauding CIA through fake reports and running a front company using operating funds, they control the ...
Style: independent film
Plot: cia, island, spy
Place: sri lanka
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.5
 1K
Shark Week (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of complete strangers find themselves isolated by a wealthy madman on his island compound. They are forced into a horrifying gauntlet where they must survive a barrage of ever deadlier species of shark.
Style: scary, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: shark, shark attack, killer shark, monster, hostage, crazy, sole survivor, blood, characters killed one by one, underwater, trap, fight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Open Water 3: Cage Dive (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Three friends from California are filming an audition tape for an extreme reality game show. They document their journey to Australia where they will be doing their most dangerous activity.... Shark Cage Diving. A catastrophic turn of events leaves ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, bloody, intense ...
Plot: animal attack, shark, ocean, shark attack, diving, found footage, underwater, danger, friends, fish, killer animal, water ...
Place: oceania, california, new zealand, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Cave of the Sharks (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Mexico, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Andres and his partner are hired to recover some valuables from an airplane that went down in the Bermuda Triangle, they face not only human treachery but also the mysterious powers of an underwater civilization.
Style: psychotronic, poliziottesco
Plot: shark, underwater, water, ufo, missing person, bermuda triangle, supernatural, smuggling, illegal drugs, drug, fish, police officer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Movie in collections
 5.8
 21K
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 ⇓
60%
 4.7
 6K
Frankenfish (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When the body of a man is found completely destroyed in the swamps in Louisiana, the medical investigator Sam Rivers is assigned to investigate the murder. He travels with the biologist Mary Callahan to the location where the victim lived in a ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, rough, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: swamp, killer animal, survival, killer fish, animal attack, shark, creature feature, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, danger, escapades, genetic engineering ...
Time: jurassic
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 4.8
 838
Cyclone (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat ...
Style: natural horror, independent film
Plot: shark, disaster, boat, killer animal, natural disaster, creature feature, killer shark, monster, creature, airplane crash, dead body, bare chested male ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 3.0
 1K
Ice Sharks (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A new breed of aggressive, ravenous sharks cracks the frozen ocean floor of an Arctic research station, devouring all who fall through. As the station sinks into frigid waters, those alive must fashion makeshift weapons or suffer the same fate.
Style: mockbuster, natural horror, weird
Plot: shark, shark attack, winter, animal attack, killer animal, trapped, monster, creature feature, snow, killer shark, survival, mutation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 3.4
 1K
Ozark Sharks (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A picturesque family vacation to the Ozarks goes sideways when a group of bull sharks show up just in time for the big fireworks festival that the town holds every year.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: shark, animal attack, shark attack, killer animal, lake, loss of friend, animal, animal cruelty, dangerous animal, human versus animal, aggression by animal, killed by an animal ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
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, killer shark, boat, monster, killer animal, water, creature, fish, animal attack, creature feature, christmas ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: bahamas, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 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 ⇓
50%
 8.1
 655K
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Raiders of the Lost Shark (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Four friends set out by boat for an idyllic vacation on a private, remote island. But unknown to them, a weaponized shark has escaped from a top secret military lab nearby, a shark that was genetically engineered with hate in its blood, and ...
Style: mockbuster, natural horror, psychotronic, spoof, horror spoof ...
Plot: shark, shark attack, animal attack, killer shark, monster, water, giant monster, killer animal, professor, sheriff, sharksploitation, vacation gone wrong ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 2.8
 3K
Megalodon (2018)
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, mad
Plot: shark, animal attack, prehistoric animal, giant animal, shark attack, prehistoric creature, creature feature, creature, monster, killer shark, rescue, underwater ...
Time: 2010s
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Bigfoot vs Megalodon (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: It's star year 4045 AD and an uneasy truce between Allies and their mortal enemies, the Archons is shattered with the appearance of the fearsome Nazi-era laboratory project, the Megalodon.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, humorous
Plot: shark, bigfoot, shark attack, sasquatch, creature feature, sharksploitation, allies, enemy, secret laboratory, laboratory, megalodon, animal horror
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
5 Headed Shark Attack (2017)
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: scary, exciting, suspenseful, tense, rough ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: shark, shark attack, monster, animal attack, eaten alive, danger, death, lifestyle, survival, gory, ambition, fear ...
Place: puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 2.1
 779
Sharkenstein (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the final days of World War II, a secret experiment to weaponize sharks is shut down and destroyed by the Third Reich. But now, 60 years later, a small ocean town is plagued by a bloodthirsty, mysterious creature, one built and reanimated using ...
Style: psychotronic, rough, scary, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: shark, killer shark, mad scientist, experiment, frankenstein, frankenstein's monster, animal attack, shark attack, angry mob, storm, beach, abandoned house ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Lake of Virgins (1982)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man discovers an island covered in treasure. But when he attempts to fully explore island and collect the treasure, he ends up discovering some mysterious nymphs who seduce him.
Plot: treasure, troubled relationship, island, seduction, utopia, polygamy, homesickness, female nudity, sex
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.0
 1K
Zombie Shark (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A perfect getaway weekend turns into a nightmare for four friends who find themselves fighting for their lives against an experimental shark. In order to survive they must fight sharks, zombies, and shark zombies.
Style: captivating, suspense, natural horror, horror comedy, weird
Plot: shark, zombie, shark attack, killer shark, creature feature, animal attack, killer animal, creature, sea monster, fight, showdown, sea disaster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Treasure of Monte Cristo (1961)
Genre: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in intrigue when he agrees to escort Colonel Wilfred Jackson (Ian Hunter) and his daughter Pauline (Patricia Bredin) on a perilous quest for treasure. ...
Style: independent film
Plot: daughter, inn, sword fight, escort, swordplay, treasure, swashbuckler, colonel, father daughter relationship, coach, fistfight, treasure map ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, georgian era, regency period
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.1
 4K
Boar (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills with a raw, animalistic ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: wild boar, australian outback, beast, animal attack, creature feature, creature, pig, monster, giant animal, survival, pig killer, travel ...
Place: oceania, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.9
 142K
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
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: exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, natural horror, scary ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: shark, survival, shark attack, laboratory, creature feature, dangerous animal, killer shark, killer animal, genetic engineering, monster, experiment gone awry, underwater ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.1
 202
Land Shark (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: China
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Qian Cheng, the boss of the pharmaceutical company, has invested in the establishment of a biopharmaceutical research laboratory located deep in the jungle. By modifying the shark gene to develop a new type of anti-cancer drug, but when the drug is ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: shark, shark attack, science runs amok, science gone wrong, animal attack, science, giant animal, killer shark, animal, dangerous animal, jungle, jungle adventure ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 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 ⇓
41%
Taur the Mighty (1963)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The warlike men of Kixos murder the king of Surupak and abduct his two daughters, Jia and Tuja. Jia's bridegroom Syros asks the mighty warrior Taurus for assistance. Taurus faithful companion Ubaratuta will give Taurus a hand to defeat the ...
Plot: barbarian, semi nudity, peplum, king, combat, showdown, camp, battles, heroes, superhuman powers, adventure hero, martial arts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 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 ⇓
37%
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