Diving into the thrilling depths of cinema, this post ranks 20 shark movies that have gripped audiences with their terrifying tales of oceanic predators or frustrated them with exceptionally bad viewing experience. From classic horror to modern-day frights, these films showcase the deadly allure of sharks, keeping viewers on the edge of their seats.

• Jaws (1975) – Police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter, hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town. Directed by Steven Spielberg.

• Bait (2012) – A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building – along with 12-foot Great White Sharks. Directed by Kimble Rendall.

• 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019) – The plot follows a group of teenage girls who scuba dive to a sunken Mayan city, only to be trapped by a group of sharks that are swimming in it. Directed by Johannes Roberts.
• Dark Tide (2012) – A diving tutor accepts a lucrative opportunity to lead a thrill-seeking millionaire businessman on a shark dive in the most dangerous waters…outside the cage. Directed by John Stockwell.
• Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark (2014) – A new mega shark threatens to destroy humanity and the government creates an exact robotic copy of the shark and now must fight to the death. Directed by Emile Edwin Smith.
• Open Water 2: Adrift (2006) – 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. Directed by Hans Horn.
• Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda (2010) – An American scientist creates a half-pterodactyl, half-barracuda creature, Pteracuda, which inevitably escapes, leaving the Sharktopus to stop it. Directed by Conan O’Brien.
• Avalanche Sharks (2014) – A snow avalanche awakens prehistoric sharks that proceed to chomp on bikini-clad coeds. Directed by Scott Wheeler.
• Atomic Shark (2016) – When a lifeguard catches wind of a dangerous anomaly off the coast of San Diego, she commissions a band of unlikely heroes to assist her on a suicide mission to save the west coast from total destruction. Directed by Lisa Palenica.
• Creature (Miniseries 1998) – An amphibious shark-like monster terrorizes an abandoned secret military base and the people who live on the

• Sand Sharks (2012) – 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. Directed by Mark Atkins.
• Shark Bait (2022) – A group of friends on a vacation struggle to find a way home with a badly injured friend after a head-on collision, while from the waters below predators lurk. Directed by James Nunn.
• Bull Shark (2022) – A hungry shark begins feeding on unsuspecting lake goers in a small town. Directed by Brett Bentman.
• Swamp Shark (2011) – A shark escapes from animal smugglers and terrorizes the bayou near a restaurant owned by two siblings. Directed by G.E. Furst.
• Dam Sharks (2016) – A group of young corporate executives discovers that a group of bull shark has invaded a freshwater lake and are attempting to build a dam using human body parts. Directed by James Kondelik.
• Bull Shark 2 (2024) – Spencer Timms once must stop a second Bull Shark who begins feasting on unsuspecting victims in a Texas lake.

• Sky Sharks (2020) – Deep in the ice of the Antarctic, a team of geologists uncover an abandoned laboratory in which the Nazis created modified sharks who are able to fly. Directed by Marc Fehse.
• Jurassic Shark (2012) – When an oil company unwittingly unleashes a prehistoric shark from its icy prison, the Jurassic killer maroons a group of thieves and beautiful young female college students on an abandoned island. Directed by Brett Kelly.
• Shark Swarm (2008) – A fisherman and his family fight to take down a greedy real estate developer who has released toxins into the ocean, turning the area’s sharks into bloodthirsty hunters. Directed by James A. Contner.
• Shark Lake (2015) – A local sheriff, Meredith Hendricks, along with a paroled exotic animal smuggler and a biologist, makes it her mission to stop a family of bull sharks that escaped into Lake Tahoe. Directed by Jerry Dugan.

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