Movies like Empire of the Sharks

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Empire of the Sharks (2017)
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Empire of the Sharks (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On a future earth where 98% of the surface is underwater, a Warlord who controls an army of sharks meets his match when he captures the daughter of a mysterious shark caller who must learn to marshal a supernatural ability if she is to free her people from the Warlord's dominion.
Style: tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, mockbuster, weird
Plot: shark, ocean, good versus evil, apocalypse, post apocalypse, friendship, rescue, shark attack, danger, mind control, death, underwater, monster, water, killer shark, animal attack, fish, distopia, dystopia, submarine, sea, ship, killer animal, mercenary, hostage ...
Time: future, 2010s

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Most similar movies to Empire of the Sharks

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, natural horror and psychotronic films with plots about killer shark, creature feature, animal attack, animal horror, shark, shark attack and water mostly in Action, Horror and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Empire of the Sharks: Super Shark (2011), 6-Headed Shark Attack (2018), 5 Headed Shark Attack (2017), Megalodon (2018), Trailer Park Shark (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Super Shark (2011)
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: killer shark, giant monster, creature feature, dangerous animal, marine biologist, escapades, deadly creature, danger, shark, killer animal, gory, water ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
6-Headed Shark Attack (2018)
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: suspenseful, scary, absurd, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: shark, giant animal, killer shark, mutant, natural disaster, fight, husband wife relationship, storm, predator, race against time, danger, chases and races ...
Time: year 1984
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Planet of the Sharks (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the near future, glacial melting has covered 98% of earth's landmass. Sharks have flourished and now dominate the planet, operating as one massive school led by a mutated alpha shark.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, intense, natural horror
Plot: extinction, mutation, shark, fear, danger, shark attack, rescue, blood, water, brutality, animal attack, killer animal ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 ⇓
71%
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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 ⇓
67%
Trailer Park Shark (2017)
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: weird
Plot: shark, shark attack, killer shark, monster, water, killer animal, animal attack, flood, trailer park, bare chested male, automobile, radio communication ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Toxic Shark (2017)
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, suspenseful, suspense, absurd, mockbuster ...
Plot: shark, killer shark, shark attack, infected, summer vacation, mutant, giant animal, monster, creature feature, toxic waste, creature, survival ...
Place: puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018)
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 ⇓
65%
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Dinoshark (2010)
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, humorous ...
Plot: killer shark, shark, shark attack, creature feature, dangerous animal, underwater, monster, dinosaur, danger, gory, giant monster, killer animal ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009)
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, natural horror, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, underwater, giant monster, monster, killer shark, fish, octopus, creature feature, kaiju, water, shark attack, dangerous animal ...
Time: prehistory
Place: japan, alaska, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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 ⇓
62%
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 ⇓
61%
2-Headed Shark Attack (2012)
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 ⇓
61%
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 ⇓
61%
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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 ⇓
60%
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
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60%
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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
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59%
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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 ⇓
59%
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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 ⇓
59%
Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014)
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, runaway, monster, chaos, danger, chaos and mayhem, heroes, demolished city ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, north america, empire state building manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Jersey Shore Shark Attack (2012)
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: boys' night, teens
Plot: animal attack, killer shark, dangerous animal, shark attack, shark, save the day, danger, beach, ocean, killer animal, blood, water ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Dark Waters (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Moneyless, ocean-exploring gigolo and his worldly lady-friend are forced to take part in looking into the possibility that aggression - utilizing marine life - is being planned.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark attack, animal attack, killer shark, creature feature, underwater, heroic mission, heroes, dangerous animal, survival, danger, space and aliens, creature ...
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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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 ⇓
58%
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Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When a fracking mishap accidentally rips apart the earth’s crust, the resulting hole opens up a gaping underground water way to a vast and mysterious ocean somewhere deep below. Instantly, giant prehistoric sharks begin wending their way upward ...
Style: bloody, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: shark, water, shark attack, creature feature, monster, escape, manhunt, female protagonist, self sacrifice, blood, partner, fear ...
Time: year 2016
Place: arkansas
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58%
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Sharktopus (2010)
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 ⇓
57%
3-Headed Shark Attack (2015)
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, captivating, disturbing, intense ...
Plot: shark, shark attack, monster, creature feature, mutation, eaten alive, absurdism, cruise ship, machete, fisherman, beach, animal attack ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An American scientist up to no good (as usual) by creating the half-pterodactyl, half-barracuda: Pteracuda. When the creature inevitably escapes, it's up to Sharktopus to stop him.
Style: suspense, captivating, natural horror, tense, exciting ...
Plot: shark, sea monster, monster, monster versus monster, creature feature, scientist, octopus, killer animal, genetic engineering, fish, beach, marine biologist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Sand Sharks (2012)
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 ⇓
56%
 3.3
 53K
Sharknado (2013)
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 ...
Style: absurd, grindhouse, horror comedy, funny, natural horror ...
Plot: shark, killer shark, creature feature, beach, stupidity, shark attack, gory, chaos and mayhem, danger, fish, brutality, creature ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010)
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, natural horror, psychotronic, mockbuster ...
Plot: shark, creature feature, monster, giant animal, government agent, battles, giant monster, kaiju, crocodile, rivalry, escapades, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: congo, florida, hawaii, africa, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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