| Waterworld (1995) | 6.3 | |
| The Abyss (1989) | 7.5 | |
| Dive!! (2008) | 6.7 | |
| The Little Mermaid (2023) | 7.2 | |
| Finding Nemo (2003) | 8.2 |
Diving movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant diving movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, exciting, serious, captivating and disturbing films and TV shows about / with diving, danger, underwater scene, scuba diving, deep sea diving, sea, underwater, ocean, escapades and water plots mostly in Adventure, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as diving: Into the Blue (2005), The Freediver (2004), Cave (2016), The Big Blue (1988), Open Water (2003), 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019), The Deep (1977), Outer Banks (2020), Open Water 3: Cage Dive (2017), Breaking Surface (2020).
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List of diving movies
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:
sexy, suspense, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
diving, underwater, treasure hunt, shark, island, profanity, ocean, shipwreck, dangerous attraction, water, cocaine, hostage ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
bahamas
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Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Freediver is a film about a female free diver. Set in Greece, a talented girl is brought to for training to an island where she finds love, danger, madness and her ambitions fulfilled.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot:
diving, diver, island, ambitious woman, extreme sport, athlete's life, risk, female protagonist, ambition, escapades, professional sports, direction and purpose ...
Place:
greece
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2K
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Horror, 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, abyss, psychopath, love triangle, murder, youth, diving, love, danger, love and romance, couples, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
diving, friendship, sea, diver, underwater, love affair, passion, male male relationship, melancholy, danger, water, escapades ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
greece, south america, italy, sicily, south of france ...
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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
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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
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15K
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:
tense, suspense, scenic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underwater, ocean, shark, treasure hunt, scuba diving, diving, shipwreck, chase, sea, kidnapping, see through clothes, betrayal ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
haiti, caribbean
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104K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A tight-knit group of teens unearths a long-buried secret, setting off a chain of illicit events that takes them on an adventure they'll never forget.
Style:
entertaining, exciting, feel good, intellectual, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
group of friends, treasure, treasure map, treasure hunt, wild ride, love, coming of age, friendship, adventurer, escapades, search for father, rivals ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina
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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, suspense, suspenseful, bloody, intense ...
Plot:
animal attack, shark, ocean, shark attack, diving, underwater, found footage, killer animal, danger, friends, fish, water ...
Place:
oceania, california, australia, new zealand
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway, Belgium
Duration: 78 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, absurd ...
Plot:
survival, ocean, underwater, trap, diving, winter, isolation, sister sister relationship, rescue from drowning, rescue, friendship, danger ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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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, captivating, suspense, action thriller, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
scuba diving, terrorist, young couple, treasure hunter, diving, heroes, ocean, danger, shark, beach, water, sea ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
honolulu hawaii, hawaii
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Following her divorce, Marina Gordeeva (40) thinks she'll never meet love again. Little does she know that one day, she'll find the love of her life in free diving, one of the most extreme sports in existence, built on diving as deep as ...
Style:
disturbing, sincere, captivating, touching, psychological
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
diving, adaptation, escapades, hopes, ambition, destiny, danger, obsession, loneliness, friendship, mentor, lifestyle ...
Place:
russia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Ireland
Duration: 99 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:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, serious, disturbing
Plot:
cave, lifeguard, rescue mission, diving, underground, scuba diving, journalist, american abroad, child in peril, rescue, boy in peril, saving a life ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
thailand
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59K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
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, danger, underwater, death, forces of nature, underground, water, struggle for survival, deathtrap ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
papua new guinea
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Tomoki Sakai (Kento Hayashi) is your average junior-high student. Fascinated by the diving skills of Yoichi Fujitani (Sosuke Ikemaytsu), an elite athlete born into a family of former Olympic divers, Tomoki joins the Mizuki Diving Club (MDC) where ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, inspirational, motivational ...
Plot:
diving, swimmer, swimming, relationships, athlete's life, sport team, athlete and trainer, financial problem, academy, teamwork, ambition, perseverance ...
Time:
2000s
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775
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
During the final days of WWII, chaos ruled. The German submarine U-461 went down along with its entire crew just off the coast of Denmark. U-461 however, was no ordinary submarine. 50 years after the war ended, two brothers go scuba diving for fun ...
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, exciting
Audience:
family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, diving, adventurer, young heroes, supernatural, rescue, escapades, save the day, danger, family relations, submarine, unstoppable ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on the best-selling novel by Tim Winton, Blueback is a timely tale about the ocean, a beautiful marine creature, and a young girl’s power to change the world.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, heartfelt, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
diving, animal, poaching, sea, fish, underwater, human animal relationship, friendship, activist, environmental activist, friends, environmental activism ...
Place:
atlantic ocean
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Danielle Noble (played by Carla Ortiz) and her team of expert cave divers led by an ambitious american archaeologist (Steve Wilcox), undertake an expedition in search of the lost Mayan Library, without imagining they will instead find the hidden ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
monster, archaeologist, alien, alien technology, characters killed one by one, diving, expedition, violence, underworld, youth, chase, characters in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
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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
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. With mermaids forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel ...
Style:
fairy tale, motion capture, feel good, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, date night, teen fantasy
Plot:
magic spell, mermaid, interspecies romance, human, sea, interspecies friendship, marine life, mysterious girl, little mermaid, spell, advisor, shipwreck ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s
Place:
caribbean
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1K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
Style:
natural horror, suspense, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
shark, shark attack, american abroad, treasure, gold, diving, alcoholism, chase, greed, doctor, fish, stuntman ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A story about friendship and sticking together through tough times. The movie shows how two young girls and their families cope with their differences, how they are brought together and torn apart and how they are changed by the injury of a racing ...
Plot:
bicycle, young girl, boxing, pigeon, diving, bird, children, friendship, girlfriend, boxer, scandinavian girl, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
denmark, scandinavia
Is relevant?
22K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, erotic, period piece, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
boarding school, obsession, coming of age, lesbian love, lesbian, sexualized violence, lgbtq, teenage girl, asthma, boarding school life, child abuse, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
1930s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1934
Place:
europe, england, spain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A high school diver fights his fear of heights and diving to get onto the team. He gets onto the team, only to find that he must dive the high platform in order to compete. His problems are further compounded by social issues out of the pool. His ...
Style:
dramatic, intense, emotional, tense, inspirational ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
diving, high school, athlete, coming of age, personal growth, competition, championship, self doubt, perseverance, redemption, peer pressure, swimming ...
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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
Is relevant?
276
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sport
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Marina Lenk is an experienced Ornamental Jumping athlete. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable ringing sound in the ears — drags her from the top of her game to the edge of madness.
Style:
suspenseful, independent film, exciting, captivating, dread ...
Plot:
diving, sea turtle, olympics, professional sports, diver, athlete's life, sport competition, female athlete, sporting event, female protagonist, obsession, determination ...
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136K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Bahamas
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
Style:
saga, exciting, action adventure, cult classic, thrilling ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
james bond, scuba diving, 007, secret agent, agent, vigilante, underwater, assassin, secret service, cold war, femme fatale, terrorist ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
bahamas, miami, caribbean, paris france, florida ...
Is relevant?
208K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, exciting, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
ocean, ufo, underwater, first contact, disaster, sea, submarine, space and aliens, survival, heroic mission, alien encounter, alien ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, future
Is relevant?
118K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, ...
Style:
scary, breathtaking, mind bending, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
ocean, underwater, alien, first contact, twists and turns, ufo, time travel, paranoia, psychology, survival, space and aliens, ghost ship ...
Time:
future, jurassic, 90s, 20th century, 80s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Wes Anderson’s incisive quirky comedy build up stars complex characters like in ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ with Bill Murray on in the leading role. An ocean adventure documentary film maker Zissou is put in all imaginable life situations and a ...
Style:
funny, visually stunning, sexy, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night
Plot:
ocean, submarine, revenge, dysfunctional family, eccentricity, mission, filmmaking, expedition, rivalry, vengeance, sea voyage, adventurer ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
italy, fictional island, seattle
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