20 best movies like The Shallows (2016)

List of the best movies like The Shallows (2016): Rogue, Black Water: Abyss, Frozen, Cage Dive, The Reef, The Divide, Megalodon, I Am Not a Serial Killer, The Bye Bye Man, Shadow in the Cloud.

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Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryAustralia
Duration01:39

From the director of Wolf Creek comes this terrifying look at nature's perfect killing machine. When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryAustralia

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 rise as oxygen levels fall and the friends find themselves trapped. Unknown to them, the storm has also brought in a pack of dangerous and hungry crocodiles.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

    Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Australia

    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 them in baited water full of Great White Sharks, turning their recording into a blood chilling diary of survival... and death.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:28

    A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
    Duration02:02

    Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

    Markimdb: 2.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:46

    Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid rules to keep himself “good” and “normal”. However, when a real monster shows up in his town he has to let his dark side out in order to stop it – but without his rules to keep him in check, he might be more dangerous than the monster he’s trying to kill.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, China
    Duration02:22

    When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, action, military
    CountryNew Zealand, USA

    A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:25

    A young woman held in captivity discovers the realities of truth and lies in the outside world.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of the teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will destroy his mind, moulding him into a monster named Leatherface.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:33

    Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly bear.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:40

    Forced into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter is hunted through the jungles of Southeast Asia.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, history
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong
    Duration02:15

      A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration03:12

      In 1960, seven pre-teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryBulgaria, USA
      Duration02:23

      A group of career criminals finds itself trapped in a warehouse with the law – and an Attack Dog named DeNiro closing in.

      Markimdb: 3
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Inspired by actual events, a group of 12 year old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
      CountryUSA

      Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water again, you can’t even get across the sand! BLOOD BEACH meets SPRING BREAKERS in an ace monster mash-up of smart nostalgia and up-to-the-minute visual effects. After an all-night graduation beach party, a group of hung-over students wake up under blazing sun to find their numbers somewhat depleted. An enormous alien creature has burrowed down deep and anyone foolish enough to make contact with the sand finds themselves at the mercy of a sea of flesh-eating tentacles. Will they ever be able to escape its carnivorous clutches?

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, Serbia, Canada
      Duration01:27

      When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they're met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      A troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind play tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head.

      Markimdb: 2.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.

      Markimdb: 3.7
      Genrehorror, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      The story follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:26

        A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide'. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:08

        WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that can prove that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his fiercely protective mother, he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountrySpain, USA, Malaysia

        After their plane crashes off the coast of a deserted Pacific island, the surviving members of an American soccer team find themselves in the most dire of circumstances with limited resources, dwindling food supply and no rescue coming any time soon. Team spirit evaporates as disagreements cause the group to separate into factions - a violent one lead by an unbalanced ruler, and a compassionate one led by a selfless player.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, drama, military, history
        CountryNorway
        Duration01:16

        After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, a Norwegian resistance fighter finds himself fleeing the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood -- but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret?

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, Netherlands, Italy
        Duration01:32

        After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at Captain Nolan's hands, a vengeful killer whale goes on a rampage in the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, Nolan, Rachel and Umilak sail after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.

        Markimdb: 3.4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy
        CountryUSA, South Africa

        A group of young explorers discover a secret area hidden from all maps and GPS devices. When they reach the center of the lake, they discover an abandoned facility that houses one of the largest, and deadliest apex-predators known to man.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        Part crime caper gone awry, part survival horror film, this 1970s set thriller depicts a harrowing fight for survival after a pair of wannabe crooks botch a bank heist and flee into the desert, where they inexplicably stumble upon Carnage Park, a remote stretch of wilderness occupied by a psychotic ex-military sniper.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Japan

        A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        Detectives use clues from various recording devices to piece together events surrounding a massacre involving bus passengers at an abandoned gas station.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:28

        A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:34

          When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

          Markimdb: 5
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:57

          A group of backpackers diving in a ruined underwater city discover that they have stumbled into the territory of the ocean's deadliest shark species.

          Markimdb: 3.4
          Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration03:22

          Meredith Hendricks happens to be the best cop in her quiet town on Lake Tahoe. When a black-market exotic species dealer named Clint is paroled from prison, something he let loose begins to make its presence known. Swimmers and land-lovers alike begin to become part of the food chain at an unbelievable rate. Meredith and her team discover that they're not just hunting one eating machine, but a whole family of them. Not everyone will make it out alive, but those who do will never forget this summer at Shark Lake.

          Markimdb: 2.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA

          A group of friends run a popular travel vlog that helps fund their adventures. The leader of the group brings along her younger sister for the next scuba diving trip to an isolated cove. But when their plane crashes, the two sisters must use their strength, resourcefulness and immense courage to survive a pack of great white sharks.

          Markimdb: 3.3
          Genrehorror, action, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:26

          A random group of people wake up on an Island where they are being hunted down in a sinister plot to harvest their organs.

          Markimdb: 4.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          A mother takes her son on a trip into remote wilderness to scatter his father's ashes; they must confront their worst fears when a lone hiker begins following them.

          Markimdb: 2.1
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          ZOMBEX tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. NOLA residents are no longer experiencing the depression and post-traumatic stress due to the trauma of the hurricane, thanks to the revolutionary ZOMBEX - a rogue, yet, "clinically-proven" anti-depressant pharmaceutical manufactured by a nefarious organization. For those who call the Big Easy their home, everything is just now turning around for them. Or, could it just be the drug, ZOMBEX, talking... Just as things are turning around for the city and its people, they once again must face a disaster of epic proportions. Only this time, they're dealing with the prospect of losing the people of New Orleans as they turn into the city's walking dead.

          Markimdb: 3.6
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:23

          Four young women travel to their college professor's new country home for a weekend getaway, only to discover that the house has a malevolent past.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, action, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:03

          Three inept night watchmen, aided by a young rookie and a fearless tabloid journalist, fight an epic battle to save their lives. A mistaken warehouse delivery unleashes a horde of hungry vampires, and these unlikely heroes must not only save themselves but also stop the scourge that threatens to take over the city of Baltimore.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:32

          Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:45

          A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:58

          Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure
          CountryNorway
          Duration01:39

            A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.

            Markimdb: 6
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:10

            Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.




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