Top 20 Shark Movies
by arjunvardhan88 | created - 10 Nov 2012 | updated - 10 Nov 2012 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Shark Night (2011)
PG-13 | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
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: 27,199 | Gross: $18.87M
The best shark movie I have seen.
2. Jaws (1975)
PG | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
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: 659,639 | Gross: $260.00M
The second best.
3. Jaws 2 (1978)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
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: 84,508 | Gross: $102.92M
Third best.
4. Jaws 3-D (1983)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
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: 48,241 | Gross: $45.52M
Fourth best.
5. Red Water (2003 TV Movie)
R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A group of oil workers being held hostage by a group of gangsters on a small oil rig are attacked by a freshwater bull shark.
Director: Charles Robert Carner | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Kristy Swanson, Coolio, Jaimz Woolvett
Votes: 3,049
Fifth best.
6. Sand Sharks (2012)
R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The residents of a small town team up to kill a group of evolved sharks that can swim in sand, and are terrorizing local beaches.
Director: Mark Atkins | Stars: Corin Nemec, Brooke Hogan, Vanessa Evigan, Eric Scott Woods
Votes: 5,445
Sixth best, but I still wonder how the shark could breathe in the sand.
7. Raging Sharks (2005 Video)
R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
After debris from an alien spaceship lands in the waters, great white sharks begin terrorizing marine researchers (Corin Nemec, Vanessa Angel, Corbin Bernsen) in the Pacific Ocean.
Director: Danny Lerner | Stars: Corin Nemec, Vanessa Angel, Corbin Bernsen, Todd Jensen
Votes: 1,179
Seventh best.
8. Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (2002 Video)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
When two researchers discover a colossal shark's tooth off the Mexican coast, their worst fears surface: the most menacing beast to ever rule the waters is still alive and mercilessly feeding on anything that crosses its path.
Director: David Worth | Stars: John Barrowman, Jenny McShane, Ryan Cutrona, George Stanchev
Votes: 5,658
The special effects were nice --- good enough for it to be on number eight in this list.
9. Swamp Shark (2011 TV Movie)
R | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An animal smuggling deal goes wrong, resulting in a large shark escaping into the swampy backwoods river.
Director: Griff Furst | Stars: Kristy Swanson, D.B. Sweeney, Jason Rogel, Jeff Chase
Votes: 3,100
Ninth best, but the shark looked really ugly.
10. Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009 Video)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the sea.
Director: Jack Perez | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Debbie Gibson, Vic Chao, Jonathan Nation
Votes: 11,307
Tenth best, but what really ticks me off is that the size of both the creatures keep on changing throughout the movie.
11. Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
PG-13 | 89 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
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: 49,568 | Gross: $20.76M
Eleventh best. Not as good as the first three Jaws movies.
12. Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010 Video)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A megalodon battles with a crocosaurus causing massive destruction. The US Army has to try and destroy the havoc creating monsters.
Director: Christopher Ray | Stars: Gary Stretch, Jaleel White, Sarah Lieving, Robert Picardo
Votes: 5,623
Twelfth best. Just like its predecessor, the size of both the creatures keeps changing throughout the movie. And I still wonder how a crocodile can be 1500 feet long.
13. Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast (2011 Video)
R | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
12 years ago during a scientific expedition 3 animal biologists stumbled upon a great discovery that ended in tragedy. Whatever killed them has awoken and now the legend of the Ancient Snow Beast could prove to be more than just a legend.
Director: Sam Qualiana | Stars: Sam Qualiana, Michael O'Hear, Kathy Murphy, C.J. Qualiana
Votes: 665
Thirteenth best. They should change the tagline 'Ancient Snow Beast'. It looks kind of weird for a killer shark movie.
14. Bait (III) (2012)
R | 93 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building - along with 12-foot Great White Sharks.
Director: Kimble Rendall | Stars: Xavier Samuel, Sharni Vinson, Adrian Pang, Yuwu Qi
Votes: 19,454
Fourteenth best. I'm happy that they did not exaggerate the size of the Great White Shark.
15. Deep Blue Sea (1999)
R | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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: 142,588 | Gross: $73.65M
Fifteenth best.
16. Super Shark (2011)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An offshore drilling accident releases a giant primordial shark, threatening to turn a bikini contest into a bloodbath.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Tim Abell, Catherine Annette, Ashley Carr, Rick Cramer
Votes: 2,479
Sixteenth best. That really is one big ass shark!
17. Creature (1998)
Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
An amphibious shark-like monster terrorizes an abandoned secret military base and the people who live on the island it is located on. A marine biologist, as well as several other people, try to stop it before it is too late...
Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Kim Cattrall, Colm Feore, Cress Williams
Votes: 2,989
Seventeenth best.
18. Sharktopus (2010 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A half-shark and half-octopus creature created for the military creates a whole lot of terror in Mexico, while the scientist who helped to create it tries to either capture or kill it.
Director: Declan O'Brien | Stars: Eric Roberts, Kerem Bürsin, Sara Malakul Lane, Héctor Jiménez
Votes: 10,574
Eighteenth best. Half Shark, Half Octopus, All Killer!
19. Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977)
R | 126 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.
Director: René Cardona Jr. | Stars: Susan George, Hugo Stiglitz, Andrés García, Fiona Lewis
Votes: 1,522
Nineteenth best. That's one big tiger shark with some big breathing problems.
20. Shark Zone (2003 Video)
R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A man with a fear of sharks is forced by a Russian crime syndicate to find sunken treasure in the breeding ground for a shoal of man-eating Great Whites.
Director: Danny Lerner | Stars: Dean Cochran, Alan Austin, Brandi Sherwood, Velizar Binev
Votes: 1,041
Twentieth best, and the last item in this list.
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