Movies like Tar
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Tar (2020)
4K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the murky depths of Los Angeles' world-famous La Brea Tar Pits there lies an ancient secret - a creature that, awakened by underground construction, turns a night of somber packing for Barry Greenwood and his co-workers into a desperate fight for survival.
Style:
suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Plot:
creature, creature feature, survival horror, survival, underground, construction, evil, catastrophe, submarine, twists and turns, ship, giant, killer animal, water, diver, sea monster, swimming, giant monster, legend, animal attack, boat, disaster, sinking ship, ritual, supernatural being ...
Place:
los angeles
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Most similar movies to Tar
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, scary and psychotronic films with plots about creature feature, creature, survival, animal attack, monster, water and danger mostly in Horror, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Tar: Crazy Tsunami (2021), The Meg (2018), Black Water: Abyss (2020), Underwater (2020), The Sea Serpent (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: China
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A sudden tsunami came as a shock, trapping Jiang Peng and his daughter, Jiang Xiao Hu, in Chinatown of Southeast Asia. The two of them, with other inhabitants, took a brace to fight against the terrible monster that followed. However, after the ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological
Plot:
relationships, survival, tsunami, creature feature, killer animal, sea creature, giant creature, mythical creature, disaster, creature, animal, struggle for survival ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
60%
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:
59%
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:
59%
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A serpent, created by radioactivity, threatens a Spanish coastal town.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, independent film
Plot:
sea monster, eaten alive, science, giant animal, kaiju, underwater, nuclear, sea captain, ocean, survival, monster, creature feature ...
Similarity:
58%
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:
58%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
During a visit to friends, Sara begins having visions and is attacked by an unearthly creature in her friend’s swimming pool; she soon discovers that anyone who comes into contact with the water is in danger and she is driven to confront the ...
Style:
mystical, scary, rough, psychotronic, suspense ...
Plot:
monster, swimming pool, escape, creature, friends, underwater, water, woman in danger, trapped, disaster, sea, near death experience ...
Similarity:
58%
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:
56%
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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, suspense, fast, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
shark, underwater, shark attack, survival, obsessive quest, dangerous animal, heroic mission, danger, race against time, escapades, rescue, obsession ...
Time:
prehistory
Similarity:
56%
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:
56%
52K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This third film in the series follows a group of marine biologists attempting to capture a young great white shark that has wandered into Florida's Sea World Park. However, later it is discovered that the shark's 35-foot mother is also a ...
Style:
suspense, scary, natural horror, funny, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
shark, killer shark, animal attack, boat, giant animal, underwater, fish, creature, water, shark attack, amusement park, creature feature ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
florida, orlando florida, usa
Similarity:
56%
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:
55%
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:
55%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Thirty years ago, Ray Reiter witnessed the brutal death of his parents at sea by a strange, octopus-like creature. Now determined to exact revenge, he joins archaeologist Nicole on a perilous high-seas expedition to find a legendary Greek Opal - ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, natural horror, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
sea monster, treasure hunt, giant squid, creature feature, danger, escapades, adventurer, survival, vengeance, creature, deadly creature, animal attack ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Marine Biologist is assigned to investigate the mysterious deaths of marine life in an inland salt water lake that have been attributed to a creature thought to have been the stuff of legend.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
excavation, legend, creature feature, giant monster, murder, fear, investigation, predator, danger, shark, animal attack, kaiju ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
55%
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:
54%
44K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produced a new species, they hire the best American team of underwater cave explorers in the world. While ...
Style:
suspenseful, intense, suspense, scary, dark ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
cave, survival, deadly creature, diver, danger, creature, supernatural, parasite, underwater, diving, obsessive quest, transformation ...
Time:
year 2005, 70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
romania, europe
Similarity:
54%
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:
54%
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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:
54%
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:
54%
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:
suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
shark attack, killer shark, shark, monster, hostage, sole survivor, blood, underwater, characters killed one by one, fight, island, trap ...
Similarity:
53%
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:
53%
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:
53%
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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:
53%
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:
53%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dead bodies are being found in New York harbor. The police have no clues nor suspects until Nick and his colleague realize the killer is a giant octopus. Everybody, especially the police captain, refuses to believe Nick's story, and soon the ...
Style:
semi serious, scary, natural horror, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
octopus, giant octopus, giant animal, monster, creature feature, sea monster, animal attack, riddles and clues, danger, dangerous animal, underwater, sea creature ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
53%
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:
animal attack, shark attack, killer shark, creature feature, underwater, heroic mission, survival, danger, dangerous animal, heroes, space and aliens, creature ...
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to be extinct for millions of years descend upon them in an ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
lost world, creature feature, dangerous animal, soldier, kaiju, battles, deadly creature, danger, military, chaos, survival, ancient mystery ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
53%
123K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, natural horror, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
jungle, snake, boat, animal attack, dangerous animal, survival, danger, river, giant snake, amazon river, strong violent content, killer animal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
latin america, ecuador, brazil, south america
Similarity:
53%
4K
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, perverse, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
animal attack, wild boar, australian outback, creature feature, creature, pig, struggle for survival, giant animal, monster, beast, survival, travel ...
Place:
oceania, australia, new zealand
Similarity:
53%
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