10 Shark Movies That Will Make You Avoid the Water

47 Meters Down

Release Date 2017

Rating : 5.6 Production Companies: Dimension Films, Tea Shop & Film Company Director: Victoria Gegenbauer, Mayret Velasquez, Michael Middleton-Downer Stars: Mandy Moore, Claire Holt, Matthew Modine

Summary: 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.

Sand Sharks

Release Date 2011

Rating : 2.7 Production Companies: Rogue State, Remember Dreaming Productions Director: Mark Atkins Stars: Corin Nemec, Brooke Hogan, Vanessa Evigan

Summary: Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the beach, it appears that our large fishy friends have found a way to chomp on you when you're chilling out on the sand too!

Ghost Shark

Release Date 2013

Rating : 3.3 Production Companies: Active Entertainment Director: Griff Furst Stars: Mackenzie Rosman, Shawn C. Phillips, Richard Moll

Summary: A coastal town is plagued by a supernatural man-eating shark. A ghost hunter joins forces with a sea captain to uncover the secrets of the area's dark past and find a way to exorcise the spectral predator.

Shark Night 3D

Release Date 2011

Rating : 4.1 Production Companies: Incentive Filmed Entertainment, Rogue Pictures Director: Jeffrey J. Dashnaw, David R. Ellis Stars: Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack

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

The Reef

Release Date 2010

Rating : 5.8 Production Companies: Lightning Entertainment, Screen Australia Director: Drew Bailey, Andrew Traucki, Benedict Paxton-Crick Stars: Damian Walshe-Howling, Zoe Naylor, Adrienne Pickering

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

Sharknado

Release Date 2013

Rating : 3.3 Production Companies: The Asylum, Syfy Director: Geoffrey Mark, John Mehrer, Esther Elise Johnson Stars: Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, John Heard

Summary: A freak hurricane hits Los Angeles, causing man-eating sharks to be scooped up in tornadoes and flooding the city with shark-infested seawater. Surfer and bar-owner Fin sets out with his friends Baz and Nova to rescue his estranged wife April and teenage daughter Claudia.

Open Water

Release Date 2003

Rating : 5.8 Production Companies: Plunge Pictures LLC, Lions Gate Films Director: Chris Kentis Stars: Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis, Saul Stein

Summary: 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...

Deep Blue Sea

Release Date 1999

Rating : 5.9 Production Companies: Village Roadshow Pictures, Warner Bros. Director: Thomas J. Mack, Portia Tickell, Kelly Moon Stars: Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson

Summary: Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives.

The Shallows

Release Date 2016

Rating : 6.3 Production Companies: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Ombra Films Director: Julian Wall, Steve Danton, Carolina Häggström Stars: Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Brett Cullen

Summary: When Nancy is surfing on a secluded beach, she finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of Nancy's ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.

Jaws

Release Date 2022

Rating : 8.1 Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Zanuck/Brown Productions Director: Barbara Bass, Tom Joyner, L. Andrew Stone Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

Summary: When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.