Worst To Best: Shark Movies
Since the success of Jaws in 1975, a number of shark movies have been made. Most of the movies on this list are low budget, stupid and some, are laugh out loud terrible. Whether they're good for being good, or good for being bad, here's a list of movies based around sharks.
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- DirectorChristopher RayStarsCarmen ElectraCharlie O'ConnellBrooke HoganSurvivors escape to a deserted atoll, after their boat during a Semester at Sea ship is sunk by a mutated two-headed shark. But when the atoll starts flooding, no one is safe from the double jaws of the monster.
- DirectorJack SholderStarsColin EgglesfieldMark DexterJenna HarrisonFor twelve days in July, 1916, a shark patrolled the waterways of northern New Jersey. This docudrama is based on Richard Fernicola's account of those days.
- DirectorPrem LalwaniDesh MukherjeeStarsNafisa AliRanjeet BediDharmendraJesu and Peter are childhood friends who live in a coastal village in India and depend on fishing as their livelihood. The community is oppressed by a powerful gangster named Alphonso. Jesu is an orphan, while Peter is brought up by his aunt and uncle, after the passing away of his mom. The community is all thrilled when Phillips finds black pearls off the coast. But then so does Alphonso, who asks his divers to get all the pearls, thus disturbing the ocean. Peter meets with Suzy D'Silva and they fall in love with each other, and get married. While enjoying a quiet swim on the sea-shore, Suzy disappears. A search is carried out, and a number of human body parts are recovered. With shock and horror this community finds that their livelihood is being threatened by a gigantic, virtually undestructible man-eating shark.
- DirectorKimble RendallStarsXavier SamuelSharni VinsonAdrian PangA freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building - along with 12-foot Great White Sharks.
- DirectorBruno MatteiStarsDavid LutherGeorge Barnes Jr.Scott SilveriaA huge shark terrorizes a beach in Florida, and the locals try everything to kill it.
- DirectorJohn StockwellStarsHalle BerryOlivier MartinezRalph BrownA professional diver tutor returns to deep waters after 1 year, following an almost fatal encounter with a great white shark. The nightmare from the deep is still lurking - more carnivorous and hungry than ever.
- DirectorRaffaele DonatoJoe D'AmatoStarsFrank BaroniCort McCownKeith KelschSeveral young men have to stop an ancient native American evil in the form of a killer shark which is attacking a small beach community.
- DirectorRenny HarlinStarsThomas JaneSaffron BurrowsSamuel L. JacksonSearching 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.
- DirectorKevin O'NeillStarsEric BalfourIva HaspergerAarón DíazA baby dinoshark evolves into a ferocious predatory adult, terrorising tourists and locals offshore from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsRoy ScheiderRobert ShawRichard DreyfussWhen 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.
- DirectorJeannot SzwarcStarsRoy ScheiderLorraine GaryMurray HamiltonPolice chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
- DirectorJoe AlvesStarsDennis QuaidBess ArmstrongSimon MacCorkindaleA 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.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsLorraine GaryLance GuestMario Van PeeblesChief Brody's widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge.
- DirectorJohn HijiriStarsNonami TakizawaAiri NakajimaMegumi HarunoBeautiful girls are in danger. At Sunny Beach, a huge shark is waiting for his prey. College students Miki and Mai arrive on a private beach on a tropical island. They can't find the hotel where they booked their reservations, and have gotten hopelessly lost, until a handsome young man shows up, offering to take them to his lodge. But something is not right about the place. The owner's fingernails are tainted with blood and Miki feels something sinister lurking nearby.
- DirectorJohn ShepphirdStarsJack ScaliaJeremy LukeJoseph RussoA cast of characters, strikingly similar to the cast of Jersey Shore, try to survive an epidemic of sharks attacking Miami Beach.
- DirectorBrett KellyStarsEmanuelle CarriereChristine EmesCeline FilionWhen 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.
- DirectorWilliam GreféStarsRichard JaeckelJennifer BishopBuffy DeeA Vietnam veteran with a psychic connection to sharks discovers their exploitation by the local aquarium and begins an underwater reign of terror to avenge them. The movie action scenes were shot using real sharks.
- DirectorDavid ListerStarsRenee BowenRemi BroadwayJoel Amos ByrnesA tsunami floods Malibu and unleashes a hunting pack of deep-water prehistoric goblin sharks, targeting a group of lifeguards trapped in their half-submerged station on stilts and a team of construction workers stranded in a flooded house.
- DirectorJack PerezStarsLorenzo LamasDebbie GibsonVic ChaoThe California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the sea.
- DirectorChristopher RayStarsGary StretchJaleel WhiteSarah LievingA megalodon battles with a crocosaurus causing massive destruction. The US Army has to try and destroy the havoc creating monsters.
- DirectorEmile Edwin SmithStarsChristopher JudgeElisabeth RöhmMatt LaganA new mega shark threatens to destroy humanity. The government creates an exact robotic copy of the shark, either equal to or greater than the original. Now they must fight to the death while people and whole cities get in the way.
- DirectorPat CorbittStarsLeighanne LittrellRobin SachsAl SapienzaA deep-sea drilling operation goes horribly wrong, releasing the deadliest ocean predator that has ever roamed the seas since prehistoric times-Carcharodon Megalodon...sixty feet of prehistoric terror.
- DirectorChris KentisStarsBlanchard RyanDaniel TravisSaul SteinBased on the true story of two scuba divers accidentally stranded in shark infested waters after their tour boat has left.
- DirectorHans HornStarsSusan May PrattRichard Speight Jr.Niklaus LangeWhen a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.
- DirectorDanny LernerStarsCorin NemecVanessa AngelCorbin BernsenAfter 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.
- DirectorCharles Robert CarnerStarsLou Diamond PhillipsKristy SwansonCoolioA group of oil workers being held hostage by a group of gangsters on a small oil rig are attacked by a freshwater bull shark.
- DirectorMark AtkinsStarsCorin NemecBrooke HoganVanessa EviganThe residents of a small town team up to kill a group of evolved sharks that can swim in sand, and are terrorizing local beaches.
- DirectorSamuel FullerRafael PortilloStarsBurt ReynoldsArthur KennedyBarry SullivanA gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
- DirectorJason BaileyStarsNed BerryJ. David BlattDamian Brown
- DirectorBob MisiorowskiStarsCordell McQueenCasper Van DienChris OlleyIn 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.
- DirectorDavid WorthStarsThorsten KayeNikita AgerDan MetcalfeThe mutant sharks from Dr. Craven's experiments in "Shark Attack 1" are back, this time choosing Cape Town, South Africa as their hunting ground.
- DirectorDavid WorthStarsJohn BarrowmanJenny McShaneRyan CutronaWhen 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.
- DirectorDanny LernerStarsDean CochranAlan AustinBrandi SherwoodA 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.
- DirectorDanny LernerStarsStephen BaldwinVanessa JohanssonHilda van der MeulenTraveling to Venice to investigate his father's mysterious death, famous archaeologist and diver David (Stephen Baldwin) unearths a killer secret that lies beneath the Venetian waters.
- DirectorDavid R. EllisStarsSara PaxtonDustin MilliganChris CarmackA weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to shark attacks.
- DirectorJames A. ContnerStarsDaryl HannahJohn SchneiderArmand AssanteA 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.
- DirectorAnthony C. FerranteStarsIan ZieringTara ReidJohn HeardWhen a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air as thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace.
- DirectorAnthony C. FerranteStarsIan ZieringTara ReidVivica A. FoxFin and April are on their way to New York City, until a category seven hurricane spawns heavy rain, storm surges, and deadly Sharknadoes.
- DirectorDeclan O'BrienStarsEric RobertsKerem BürsinSara Malakul LaneA 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.
- DirectorKevin O'NeillStarsWilhem AbreuKeisha Shadè AkinyemiLorena AlemanyAn American scientist creates a half-pterosaur and half-barracuda creature named the pteracuda which inevitably escapes, leaving it up to the sharktopus to stop it.
- DirectorAndrew TrauckiStarsDamian Walshe-HowlingGyton GrantleyAdrienne PickeringA great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
- DirectorEnzo G. CastellariStarsFranco NeroWerner PochathJorge LukeA crusty recluse on a Caribbean island who is dedicated to destroying sharks gets involved in a hunt for buried treasure.
- DirectorRené Cardona Jr.StarsSusan GeorgeHugo StiglitzAndrés GarcíaTwo shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.