Scuba diving movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant scuba diving movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, captivating, serious, psychological and exciting films and TV shows about / with scuba diving, diving, underwater, danger, underwater scene, water, ocean, sea, survival and boat plots mostly in Thriller, Adventure and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as scuba diving: Pressure (2015), Sanctum (2011), The Deep House (2021), The Deep (1977), Dive Club (2021), Into the Blue (2005), Breaking Surface (2020), Into the Blue 2: The Reef (2009), Cave (2016), Frenzy (2018).

List of scuba diving movies

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 5.6
 6K
Pressure (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Four divers are stuck deep underwater in a vessel after a freak storm destroys their ship. Will they survive?
Style: suspense, rough, exciting, suspenseful, depressing ...
Plot: underwater, trapped, diver, survival, claustrophobia, self sacrifice, rescue, storm, scuba diving, friendship, diving, wilderness survival ...
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 5.9
 57K
Sanctum (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, cave, expedition, disaster, underwater, forces of nature, underground, danger, death, deathtrap, struggle for survival, water ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: papua new guinea
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 5.3
 17K
The Deep House (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: While diving in a remote French lake, a couple of YouTubers who specialize in underwater exploration videos discover a house submerged in the deep waters. What was initially a unique finding soon turns into a nightmare when they discover that the ...
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, diver, scuba diving, satanic ritual, paranormal, lake, underwater, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, paranormal phenomena, found footage ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: france
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 6.2
 14K
The Deep (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: underwater, ocean, shark, treasure hunt, scuba diving, diving, shipwreck, sea, chase, kidnapping, see through clothes, survival ...
Place: haiti, caribbean
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 6.2
 1K
Dive Club (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story: On the shores of Cape Mercy, a skillful group of teen divers investigate a series of secrets and signs after one of their own mysteriously goes missing.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, ocean, diver, scuba diving, sea, island, search and rescue, teenager, rescue mission, mysterious disappearance, teenage girl, girlfriend ...
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 5.9
 79K
Into the Blue (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When they take some friends on an extreme sport adventure, the last thing Jared and Sam expect to see below the shark-infested waters is a legendary pirate ship rumored to contain millions of dollars in gold. But their good fortune is short-lived, ...
Style: exciting, sexy, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: diving, treasure hunt, shark, underwater, ocean, shipwreck, island, expedition, cocaine, sunken treasure, scuba diving, danger ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: bahamas
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Breaking Surface (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway, Belgium
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense
Plot: survival, underwater, ocean, trap, diving, isolation, winter, sister sister relationship, scuba diving, rescue from drowning, danger, rescue ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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Into the Blue 2: The Reef (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When they're hired to recover the lost treasure of Columbus, married scuba divers Sebastian (Chris Carmack) and Dani (Laura Vandervoort) think they've hit the jackpot. But as they get closer to the fortune, the couple begins to suspect ...
Style: exciting, suspense, captivating, action thriller, crime thriller ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: scuba diving, treasure hunter, diving, terrorist, heroes, ocean, danger, beach, shark, water, sea, drowning ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: honolulu hawaii, hawaii
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 4.2
 2K
Cave (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of former military elites set out to explore an uncharted abyss, not knowing their worst nightmare is waiting for them deep beneath the ground.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, unusual plot structure
Plot: cave, love triangle, psychopath, murder, diving, abyss, youth, love and romance, danger, love, couples, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
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 2.8
 2K
Frenzy (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of friends runs a popular travel vlog that helps fund their adventures. The leader of the group includes her younger sister for the next scuba diving trip to an isolated cove. But when their plane crashes, the two sisters must use their ...
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: shark, survival horror, plane crash, animal attack, sister sister relationship, scuba diving, creature, water, danger, couples, creature feature, kaiju ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 2.8
 2K
Last Resort (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sam and Dave are living the boring life until they are beckoned to Sam's uncle's Island. When they get there (still not quite sure how that worked) they are compelled by beautiful women and a dastardly enemy of the Island. After ...
Style: humorous, absurd, intense, parody, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: island, resort, stupidity, nothing goes right, buddies, partner, disorder, lifestyle, down on your luck, absurdism, uncle nephew relationship, female nudity ...
Time: 90s
Place: caribbean
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 5.8
 1K
The Cave (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Ireland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, exciting, serious
Plot: cave, diving, scuba diving, underground, rescue mission, rescue, child in peril, journalist, american abroad, boy in peril, daring rescue, rescue from drowning ...
Place: thailand
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 6.0
 103K
Sahara (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, action packed, scenic, buddy comedy ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, adult
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, adventurer, treasure hunter, desert, obsessive quest, archaeology, escapades, civil war, good versus evil, danger, buddy ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: africa, nigeria
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Open Water 2: Adrift (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 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, psychological, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: survival, human nature, yacht, danger, social relations, uninhibited rivalry, family in danger, drowning, diving, water, shark, isolation ...
Place: mexico, latin america
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 6.4
 4K
Night Tide (1961)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Writer/director Curtis Harrington does an admirable job working around the severe budget limitations of the 1961 psychological chiller Night Tide. Sailor Johnny (Dennis Hopper) falls in love with carnival-girl Mora (Linda Lawson), despite warnings ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, atmospheric, classic horror, detective ...
Plot: mermaid, sailor, fortune teller, carnival, nightmare, sea, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, obsession, scuba diving, beach, tragedy ...
Time: year 1961
Place: los angeles
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 5.3
 13K
DeepStar Six (1989)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The crew of an experimental underwater nuclear base are forced to struggle for their lives when their explorations disturb a creature who threatens to destroy their base.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sea monster, underwater, survival, creature feature, race against time, giant monster, ghost ship, alien, disaster, rescue, shark, space ...
Time: future, prehistory
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47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
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: suspense, suspenseful, bloody, psychotronic, teen horror ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: shark, sea, underwater, panic, animal attack, killer shark, shark attack, fear, research, great white shark, survival horror, chase ...
Time: 2010s
Place: mexico
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Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
Style: scary, slasher, natural horror, perverse, spoof ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, shark, killer animal, piranha, creature feature, animal attack, fish, underwater, scuba diving, sea, gory, island ...
Time: 80s
Place: caribbean
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 8.2
 1.1M
Finding Nemo (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, teens ...
Plot: friendship, underwater, shark, memory loss, father son relationship, animal, freedom, courage, single father, rescue, odd couple, talking animal ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new south wales, oceania, pacific ocean, sydney australia
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 5.5
 4K
The Dive (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two sisters go diving at a beautiful, remote location. One of the sisters is struck by a rock, leaving her trapped 28 meters below. With dangerously low levels of oxygen and cold temperatures, it is up to her sister to fight for her life.
Style: psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: underwater, scuba diving, sister sister relationship, diver, diving, saving a life, life risking, death threat, threat, sisters, risk, breaking and entering ...
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 6.7
 172
Amanchu! (2016)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The hyperactive teenage scuba diver, Hikari Kohinata, lives in a small town near the sea. On her first day of high school she meets the shy transfer student, Futaba Oki, who is struggling to find a place after moving away from Tokyo. Hikari takes ...
Style: anime, psychological, satirical, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: slice of life, scuba diving, introvert, school club, changing lives, friends, spring break, teenage life, friendship, satire, diving, sea ...
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 6.0
 5K
Pioneer (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden, France, Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Pioneer is set in the early '80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A ...
Style: captivating, tense, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Plot: underwater, oil, oil industry, conspiracy, obsession, uncover truth, investigation, ocean, danger, twists and turns, scuba diving, oil field ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
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OSS 117 is Unleashed (1963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The first adventure of OSS 117.
Style: black and white, psychotronic, eurospy
Plot: spy, scuba diving, underwater, fistfight, surveillance, secret agent, knife fight, sexual innuendo, beggar, secret document, passionate kiss, beach ...
Place: corsica, france, new york, paris france, nice france
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 5.1
 41K
The Cave (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
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: suspense, suspenseful, intense, scary, underground horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cave, survival, diver, deadly creature, danger, creature, supernatural, monster, underwater, parasite, diving, transformation ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: romania, europe
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 6.4
 41K
Black Sea (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, bleak, psychological, clever ...
Plot: submarine, underwater, boat, treasure hunt, sea, ocean, gold, isolation, heist, danger, greed, murder ...
Time: year 1941, year 2008, 21st century
Place: black sea, scotland, ukraine, crimea
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 5.8
 4K
No Limit (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Roxana Aubrey decides to drop her studies and escape her life in Paris for a free diving course in the south of France. She is quickly pulled into a life that reaches new depths brought by the weight of an ocean's descent.
Style: romantic, psychological, captivating, thrilling, deep
Plot: diving, couples, in love, diver, male female relationship, love story, love and romance, romantic relationship, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, love interest ...
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 6.5
 1K
Hidden Gems (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: While prepping for her sister’s wedding, Addie loses her grandmother’s ring in the waters of Hawaii. She hires dive instructor Jack to search for her lost treasure. They immediately clash with each other when Addie insists she go on the pursuit ...
Style: semi serious, romantic, captivating, feel good
Plot: wedding ring, relationships, male female relationship, romantic relationship, couple relations, love interest, couples, wedding, wedding preparations and rituals, fall in love, love and romance, love story ...
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 7.8
 61
Umizaru (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: coast guard, workplace situations, frogman, relationships, coworker, life is a bitch, male female relationship, scuba diving, long distance relationship, relationship problems, workplace, friendship ...
Place: japan
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 7.8
 4K
Grand Blue (2018)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Iori Kitahara looks forward to his new life on the Izu Peninsula as he prepares to start his college life there, staying in a room above his uncle's diving shop "Grand Blue". However, he is quickly shocked as he meets the local Diving ...
Style: anime, entertaining, humorous, semi serious, seinen
Plot: friendship, youth, diving, drinking alcohol, slice of life, scuba diving, seaside town, surfer, college, drinking, college student, fear ...
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 5.8
 23K
Leviathan (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ship, monster, creature feature, experiment gone awry, race against time, sea, survival, sea monster, ocean, suicide, survival horror, shipwreck ...
Time: 80s
Place: atlantic ocean, rome italy, italy
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