Underwater Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, Horror & Thriller Films

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1. The Abyss (1989)

PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

62 Metascore

A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester

Votes: 192,919 | Gross: $54.46M

2. Leviathan (1989)

R | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

51 Metascore

Perched on the hull of a wrecked Soviet freighter, a team of deep-sea miners led by head oceanographer Steven Beck comes face to face with a mutant creature that's the product of a failed genetic experiment.

Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern

Votes: 23,734 | Gross: $15.70M

3. DeepStar Six (1989)

R | 99 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

34 Metascore

A team of navy personnel stationed at a temporary base at the bottom of the ocean and tasked with setting up nuclear missiles discovers a huge underwater cavern which houses a giant prehistoric creature.

Director: Sean S. Cunningham | Stars: Greg Evigan, Nancy Everhard, Taurean Blacque, Miguel Ferrer

Votes: 13,208 | Gross: $8.14M

4. Lords of the Deep (1989)

PG-13 | 77 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

Man has finally conquered the ocean. America's first self-contained undersea laboratory is the pride of the nation, and expectations are high for an elaborate undersea mining operation. ... See full summary »

Director: Mary Ann Fisher | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Priscilla Barnes, Daryl Haney, Mel Ryane

Votes: 1,368

5. The Evil Below (1989)

R | 92 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

A down-on-his-luck sea captain goes treasure hunting for a wrecked Spanish galleon that is rumored to be cursed by God and protected by supernatural forces.

Directors: Jean-Claude Dubois, Wayne Crawford | Stars: Wayne Crawford, June Chadwick, Sheri Able, Ted Le Plat

Votes: 356

6. The Rift (1990)

R | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Siren II, a submarine under the command of Capt. Phillips, ventures into the deep on a mission to recover the missing Siren I. Their quest is hindered when the submarine becomes entangled in a patch of toxic seaweed.

Director: Juan Piquer Simón | Stars: Jack Scalia, R. Lee Ermey, Ray Wise, Deborah Adair

Votes: 2,757

7. Deep Rising (1998)

R | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who had already invaded the ship.

Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O'Connor

Votes: 40,751 | Gross: $11.20M

8. Sphere (1998)

PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

35 Metascore

A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote

Votes: 112,441 | Gross: $37.02M

9. Deep Blue Sea (1999)

R | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

54 Metascore

Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the prey, as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.

Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson, Jacqueline McKenzie

Votes: 142,462 | Gross: $73.65M

10. Jaws (1975)

PG | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller

87 Metascore

When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary

Votes: 658,672 | Gross: $260.00M

11. Jaws 2 (1978)

PG | 116 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

51 Metascore

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo

Votes: 84,412 | Gross: $102.92M

12. Jaws 3-D (1983)

PG | 99 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

27 Metascore

A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.

Director: Joe Alves | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale, Louis Gossett Jr.

Votes: 48,196 | Gross: $45.52M

13. Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

PG-13 | 89 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

15 Metascore

Chief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, Karen Young

Votes: 49,525 | Gross: $20.76M

14. Das Boot (1981)

R | 149 min | Drama, War

85 Metascore

A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch

Votes: 264,080 | Gross: $11.49M

15. Gray Lady Down (1978)

PG | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, History

A Navy Captain uses his experimental Snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge.

Director: David Greene | Stars: Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty

Votes: 3,528

16. The Deep (1977)

PG | 123 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller

41 Metascore

In Bermuda, two amateur treasure-hunting divers have a run-in with local criminals when they inadvertently discover the secret cargo of a World War II shipwreck.

Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Dick Anthony Williams, Robert Shaw

Votes: 13,746 | Gross: $6.84M

17. Piranha (1978)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

71 Metascore

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies-Urich, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 24,658 | Gross: $6.00M

18. Piranha II: The Spawning (1982)

R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

15 Metascore

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.

Directors: James Cameron, Ovidio G. Assonitis, Miller Drake | Stars: Tricia O'Neil, Steve Marachuk, Lance Henriksen, Ricky Paull Goldin

Votes: 9,902

19. It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)

Not Rated | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A giant, radioactive octopus rises from the Philippine Trench to terrorize the North American Pacific Coast.

Director: Robert Gordon | Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis, Ian Keith

Votes: 6,342

20. The Beast (1996)

PG-13 | 176 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Mysterious things happen at the coast of Graves Point: An empty boat lies at the shore, divers vanish. The sea biologist Dr. Talley thinks he knows the solution of the mystery: In the depth there is a gigantic squid.

Stars: William Petersen, Karen Sillas, Charles Martin Smith, Ronald Guttman

Votes: 2,907

21. Shark Attack (1999 TV Movie)

R | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

In a once serene African fishing village, a marine biologist goes in search of some answers when his friend becomes a victim in one of a series of brutal shark attacks.

Director: Bob Misiorowski | Stars: Cordell McQueen, Casper Van Dien, Chris Olley, Jacob Makgoba

Votes: 3,256

22. Shark Attack 2 (2000 Video)

R | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

The mutant sharks from Dr. Craven's experiments in "Shark Attack 1" are back, this time choosing Cape Town, South Africa as their hunting ground.

Director: David Worth | Stars: Thorsten Kaye, Nikita Ager, Dan Metcalfe, Caroline Bruins

Votes: 2,718

23. Octopus (2000 Video)

PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

During the Cuban Missle Crisis, a Russian sub is sunk while en route to Havana. As the sub goes down, the hold is breached and barrels full of some mysterious substance tumble out. Years ... See full summary »

Director: John Eyres | Stars: Jay Harrington, Ravil Isyanov, David Beecroft, Carolyn Lowery

Votes: 2,121

24. Below (2002)

R | 105 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

55 Metascore

Strange happenings occur on a WW II submarine.

Director: David Twohy | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, David Crow, Matthew Davis, Holt McCallany

Votes: 24,114 | Gross: $0.61M

25. Deep Rescue (2005)

Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

The crew of the Discovery struggle to survive and escape to the surface after the Space Shuttle ditches into the Atlantic Ocean.

Director: Chris Bremble | Stars: Tamara Davies, Dale Midkiff, Stan Kirsch, Corey Large

Votes: 196

26. Parasite (2004)

R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A cleaning fluid experiment on an oil rig turns disastrous when a worker goes missing and eco-activists seize the rig, before a dangerous new creature forces workers and activists to band together.

Director: Andrew Prendergast | Stars: Gary Condés, Saskia Gould, Conrad Whitaker, G.W. Stevens

Votes: 683

27. The Rig (2010)

R | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.

Director: Peter Atencio | Stars: William Forsythe, Stacey Hinnen, Serah D'Laine, Marcus T. Paulk

Votes: 2,195

28. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

PG | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

70 Metascore

A group of passengers must embark on a harrowing struggle for survival after a rogue wave capsizes their cruise ship at sea.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons

Votes: 49,170 | Gross: $84.56M

29. Poseidon (2006)

PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

50 Metascore

On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for their lives as they attempt to escape the sinking ship.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum, Josh Lucas

Votes: 110,340 | Gross: $60.67M

30. Into the Blue (2005)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

45 Metascore

Four divers cross paths with drug smugglers in the Bahamas.

Director: John Stockwell | Stars: Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan, Ashley Scott

Votes: 79,473 | Gross: $18.47M

31. Into the Blue 2: The Reef (2009 Video)

Unrated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A pair of professional divers are hired to find Columbus' hidden treasure.

Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Chris Carmack, Laura Vandervoort, Marsha Thomason, Michael Graziadei

Votes: 5,469

32. Piranha 3D (2010)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Horror

53 Metascore

After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the area's new razor-toothed residents.

Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Elisabeth Shue, Jerry O'Connell, Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames

Votes: 96,616 | Gross: $25.00M

33. Piranha 3DD (2012)

R | 83 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

24 Metascore

After the events at Lake Victoria, the pre-historic school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into a newly opened waterpark.

Director: John Gulager | Stars: Danielle Panabaker, Ving Rhames, David Hasselhoff, Matt Bush

Votes: 45,352 | Gross: $0.38M

34. The Reef (2010)

R | 94 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

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

Director: Andrew Traucki | Stars: Damian Walshe-Howling, Gyton Grantley, Adrienne Pickering, Zoe Naylor

Votes: 20,917

35. Shark Night (2011)

PG-13 | 90 min | Horror, Thriller

22 Metascore

A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to shark attacks.

Director: David R. Ellis | Stars: Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack, Katharine McPhee

Votes: 27,176 | Gross: $18.87M

36. The Cave (2005)

PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi

30 Metascore

Blood-thirsty creatures await a pack of divers who become trapped in an underwater cave network.

Director: Bruce Hunt | Stars: Piper Perabo, Morris Chestnut, Cole Hauser, Eddie Cibrian

Votes: 41,402 | Gross: $15.01M

37. Sanctum (2011)

R | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

42 Metascore

An underwater cave diving team experiences a life-threatening crisis during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world.

Director: Alister Grierson | Stars: Rhys Wakefield, Allison Cratchley, Christopher James Baker, Richard Roxburgh

Votes: 57,193 | Gross: $23.07M

38. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

G | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

83 Metascore

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre

Votes: 37,122 | Gross: $28.20M

39. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Richard Crenna, Ben Cross, Julie Cox, Paul Gross

Votes: 1,038

40. The Poseidon Adventure (2005 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 174 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A ragtag group of survivors, spearheaded by a Priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.

Director: John Putch | Stars: Adam Baldwin, Rutger Hauer, Steve Guttenberg, Bryan Brown

Votes: 3,672

41. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)

PG | 114 min | Action, Adventure

22 Metascore

An extension of the previous film, wherein a group of adventurers return to the overturned ship to seek several fortunes.

Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle

Votes: 5,868

42. North Sea Hijack (1980)

PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

58 Metascore

When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks

Votes: 5,808

43. The Perfect Storm (2000)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

59 Metascore

An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane

Votes: 177,757 | Gross: $182.62M

44. The Guardian (I) (2006)

PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

53 Metascore

A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's "A" School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.

Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Sela Ward, Melissa Sagemiller

Votes: 97,949 | Gross: $55.01M

45. Intrepid (2000)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When a tsunami created by a nuclear explosion capsizes a cruise ship, a special agent must help the surviving passengers reach the surface when it becomes apparent that there's a group of terrorists on board.

Director: John Putch | Stars: James Coburn, Costas Mandylor, Finola Hughes, Alex Hyde-White

Votes: 408

46. Waterworld (1995)

PG-13 | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

56 Metascore

In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.

Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper, Tina Majorino

Votes: 209,685 | Gross: $88.25M

47. The Hunt for Red October (1990)

PG | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

58 Metascore

In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect or to start a war?

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill

Votes: 214,501 | Gross: $122.01M

48. Crimson Tide (1995)

R | 116 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

66 Metascore

On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Matt Craven, George Dzundza

Votes: 123,170 | Gross: $91.40M

49. U-571 (2000)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, War

62 Metascore

A German submarine is boarded by disguised American submariners trying to capture their Enigma cipher machine.

Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi

Votes: 87,333 | Gross: $77.09M

50. Deep Shock (2003 TV Movie)

R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A mysterious trench has formed on the ocean floor, and a deadly species of creature emerges from the depths.

Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: David Keith, Simmone Mackinnon, Mark Sheppard, Sean Whalen

Votes: 1,077

51. Deepsea Challenge (2014)

PG | 91 min | Documentary

58 Metascore

As a boy, filmmaker James Cameron dreamed of a journey to the deepest part of the ocean. This film is the dramatic fulfillment of that dream.

Directors: John Bruno, Ray Quint, Andrew Wight | Stars: James Cameron, Suzy Amis, Frank Lotito, Paul Henri

Votes: 2,316 | Gross: $0.15M

52. Pressure (II) (2015)

R | 91 min | Drama, Thriller

A group of men are trapped in a small pod on the sea bed, after diving down to fix an oil pipeline and becoming separated from their ship.

Director: Ron Scalpello | Stars: Danny Huston, Matthew Goode, Joe Cole, Alan McKenna

Votes: 6,066

53. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)

PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

49 Metascore

When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, U.S. Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt, using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.

Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre

Votes: 6,659

54. Around the World Under the Sea (I) (1966)

G | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The crew of a five-man submarine travels the world oceans, planting sensors on the ocean floor to warn scientists of any impending earthquakes.

Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Shirley Eaton, Brian Kelly, David McCallum

Votes: 961

55. The Neptune Factor (1973)

G | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux

Votes: 1,298

56. City Beneath the Sea (1971 TV Movie)

G | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit the underwater city called Pacifica. They find they must defend the city against hostile alien forces.

Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Colbert, Burr DeBenning

Votes: 756

57. Goliath Awaits (1981)

PG | 200 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A team of scientists discover a secret underwater community within the wreck of an ocean liner that sank during World War II.

Stars: Mark Harmon, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert, John Carradine

Votes: 1,198

58. Phantom (I) (2013)

R | 98 min | Drama, History, Thriller

40 Metascore

The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.

Director: Todd Robinson | Stars: Ed Harris, Julian Adams, David Duchovny, William Fichtner

Votes: 15,154 | Gross: $0.49M

59. K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

PG-13 | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller

58 Metascore

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Harrison Ford, Sam Spruell, Peter Stebbings, Christian Camargo

Votes: 67,345 | Gross: $35.17M

60. Pioneer (2013)

R | 111 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

58 Metascore

A thriller set at the beginning of the 1980's Norwegian Oil Boom and centered on a diver whose obsession with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea leads to tragedy.

Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg | Stars: Aksel Hennie, Wes Bentley, Stephen Lang, Stephanie Sigman

Votes: 5,296 | Gross: $0.01M

61. Black Sea (2014)

R | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

62 Metascore

In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold.

Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall

Votes: 40,832 | Gross: $1.17M

62. Sector 7 (2011)

Not Rated | 101 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A crew, drilling offshore for oil south of Jeju island, finds a lethal alien life form instead.

Director: Ji-hoon Kim | Stars: Ha Ji-Won, Ahn Sung-ki, Oh Ji-ho, Cha Ye-ryun

Votes: 2,798

63. Open Water (2003)

R | 79 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

63 Metascore

Based on the true story of two scuba divers accidentally stranded in shark infested waters after their tour boat has left.

Director: Chris Kentis | Stars: Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis, Saul Stein, Michael E. Williamson

Votes: 56,418 | Gross: $30.61M

64. Open Water 2: Adrift (2006)

R | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

When a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.

Director: Hans Horn | Stars: Susan May Pratt, Richard Speight Jr., Niklaus Lange, Ali Hillis

Votes: 19,920

65. Black Water (2007)

R | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

A boat tour of a mangrove swamp turns into a fight for survival when a group of people are attacked by a ferocious saltwater crocodile.

Directors: David Nerlich, Andrew Traucki | Stars: Diana Glenn, Maeve Dermody, Andy Rodoreda, Ben Oxenbould

Votes: 16,021

66. The Shallows (2016)

PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Drama, Horror

59 Metascore

A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Angelo Josue Lozano Corzo, Joseph Salas

Votes: 143,298 | Gross: $55.12M

67. 47 Meters Down (2017)

PG-13 | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

52 Metascore

Two sisters vacationing in Mexico are trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean. With less than an hour of oxygen left and great white sharks circling nearby, they must fight to survive.

Director: Johannes Roberts | Stars: Mandy Moore, Claire Holt, Matthew Modine, Chris Johnson

Votes: 60,857 | Gross: $44.31M

68. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)

PG-13 | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

43 Metascore

Two sisters diving in a ruined underwater city quickly learn they've entered the territory of the deadliest shark species in the claustrophobic labyrinth of submerged caves.

Director: Johannes Roberts | Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Corinne Foxx, Brianne Tju, Sistine Rose Stallone

Votes: 30,740 | Gross: $22.26M

69. Descent Into Darkness (2002)

R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Deep in the Mariana Sea Basin, several miners have died under mysterious circumstances. Officer Will Murdock of the Deep Submersible Division is brought down to investigate. Will anyone reach the surface alive?

Director: Daniel Knauf | Stars: Dean Cain, Scott Wiper, Biliana Petrinska, Maxim Genchev

Votes: 462

70. Proteus (1995)

R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Group of heroin smugglers finds shelter on abandoned oil rig after their ship had exploded. Soon they find that the oil rig was just cover for biological experiment. One of the results is ... See full summary »

Director: Bob Keen | Stars: Craig Fairbrass, Toni Barry, William Marsh, Jennifer Calvert

Votes: 1,222

71. The Haunted Sea (1997)

R | 73 min | Action, Horror

A mysterious ship is found adrift in mid-ocean without a crew. But this mystery is soon forgotten when Captain Ramsey, his two sexy first mates and the crew discover its precious cargo of ... See full summary »

Director: Dan Golden | Stars: Krista Allen, Don Stroud, Duane Whitaker, Jeff Phillips

Votes: 437

72. Warlords of the Deep (1978)

PG | 96 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

Two deep-sea explorers and their crew must survive a master race of beings and monstrous creatures when they discover the fabled city of Atlantis.

Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, Shane Rimmer, Lea Brodie

Votes: 2,744

73. Open Water 3: Cage Dive (2017)

R | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

Three friends filming an audition tape for an extreme reality-TV show find themselves stranded in shark-infested waters, turning their recording into a bloody diary of death. Do they have what it takes to survive the open water?

Director: Gerald Rascionato | Stars: Joel Hogan, Josh Potthoff, Megan Peta Hill, Pete Valley

Votes: 5,023

74. The Chamber (2016)

Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, Thriller

40 Metascore

A three-man Special Ops team on a secret recovery mission and a civilian pilot become trapped underwater in a small claustrophobic submersible craft off the coast of North Korea.

Director: Ben Parker | Stars: Johannes Kuhnke, Charlotte Salt, James McArdle, Elliot Levey

Votes: 1,261

75. SeaQuest 2032 (1993–1996)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Family

In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.

Stars: Jonathan Brandis, Don Franklin, Ted Raimi, Darwin

Votes: 7,765

76. The Meg (2018)

PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

46 Metascore

A group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed - the Megalodon.

Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Jason Statham, Bingbing Li, Rainn Wilson, Cliff Curtis

Votes: 207,279 | Gross: $143.01M

77. Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018 Video)

R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A brilliant billionaire creates five genetically altered bull sharks, which proceed to wreak havoc for a group of scientists on an isolated research facility.

Director: Darin Scott | Stars: Danielle Savre, Rob Mayes, Michael Beach, Nathan Lynn

Votes: 8,310

78. Underwater (2020)

PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

48 Metascore

A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Director: William Eubank | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Mamoudou Athie, T.J. Miller

Votes: 96,991 | Gross: $17.29M

79. Sea Fever (2019)

TV-14 | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

60 Metascore

The crew of a West of Ireland trawler, marooned at sea, struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.

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Votes: 14,047

80. Thirteen Lives (2022)

PG-13 | 147 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

66 Metascore

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Votes: 67,366

81. Meg 2: The Trench (2023)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

40 Metascore

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Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Jason Statham, Jing Wu, Shuya Sophia Cai, Cliff Curtis

Votes: 77,870 | Gross: $82.60M



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