30 Best Movies Like Underwater You Need to Watch
You either love or hate Underwater, but if you are in this article, we believe you liked the movie. In our opinion, Underwater is an underrated gem every sci-fi lover needs to see. So, if you have watched it, and like it, and want more, we have you covered. In this article, we are bringing you the best movies like Underwater you can watch right now.
Underwater follows a group of workers at a drilling facility at the bottom of the ocean who encounter hostile creatures after an earthquake destroys the facility.
The movies on this list are very similar to Underwater, even though not all are set underwater. Still, the premise and the feeling of being alone, trapped, and helpless make these movies like Underwater similar. So, let’s check them out.
The Abyss (1989)
An American nuclear submarine is killed after encountering a mysterious object, and the military hires employees of a nearby underwater oil rig to reach it and check for survivors. The chief of the oil company executives is Virgil Bud Brigman, and Lt. Coffey leads the military side of the rescue crew.
Bud’s wife Lindsay, who now works for the army and intends to divorce Bud, plays a prominent role in the team. Approaching the submarine, the crew members realize that something unknown and mysterious is present in those waters.
The Mist (2007)
After a strong storm in the Maine area, local artist Dave Drayton (Thomas Jane) goes with his son Billy (Nathan Gamble) and arrogant neighbor, lawyer Brent Norton (Andre Braugher) from his house near the lake to the supermarket to get supplies. On the way, they encounter fog, and later they see a military convoy, police and fire engines driving towards it.
While they are in the supermarket, a distraught local resident comes rushing in covered in blood, saying that there is something alive in the fog. The store manager then decides to close the front door, but the fog soon covers everything. When David, another customer and two employees go to the back of the store to start the generator suddenly the strong arms grab cashier Norm (Chris Owen).
The Descent (2005)
After surviving a terrible car accident, Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) and her friend Beth (Alex Reid) are persuaded by their friend Juno (Natalie Mendoza), who left Britain in a hurry after Sarah’s accident, to come and join her in the US on a caving expedition.
Three friends, together with Juna’s new acquaintance, embark on a speleological expedition, which turns into a nightmare after stones fall at the entrance to the cave, for which they do not have a map, and they only have food for a few days. As the tension between the girls grows, they face another danger: a being that loves darkness and blood equally.
The Rig (2010)
As a tropical storm approaches the Louisiana coast, all non-essential personnel are evacuated off the huge “Charlie” oil rig. The remaining workers batten down the hatches, unaware that a voracious evil threatens their lives more than any hurricane.
DeepStar Six (1989)
Under the surface, marine biologists are preparing the ground for the deployment of rockets. Scarpelli (Nia Peeples) wants to investigate the underwater rocks in more detail and informs dr. Gelder (Marius Weyers) in order to inform the navy about possible dangers.
But Dr. Gelder does not want to be left without foundation and continues to destroy the underwater cave. After creating an opening in the cave, they decide to explore it with underwater sensors, but they soon lose them during the first scans. After they set out to find the sensor, they are suddenly attacked by an enraged beast.
Crawl (2019)
When a hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley goes in search of her missing father, ignoring evacuation orders. She finds him seriously injured in the room of their family home, and the two of them are trapped in a great flood.
Haley and her father are running out of time to escape until the storm gets even stronger, but they soon discover that rising water levels are the least of their worries.
Sphere (1998)
A team of scientists, consisting of psychologist Norman Goodman (Dustin Hoffman), biochemist Beth Halperin (Sharon Stone) and mathematician Harry Adams (Samuel L. Jackson), descends into the murky depths of the ocean to investigate an ancient spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific.
At the bottom of the sea, they discover her mysterious cargo. They will come into contact with a killer alien and their expedition will turn deadly. Connections to the surface are severed and the death toll rises, and the desperate survivors must now face the shocking truth.
2012 (2009)
According to the Mayan calendar, the world’s end will occur on December 21, 2012. When a global cataclysm turns the world into chaos, divorced writer Jackson Curtis (John Cusak) will use knowledge from ancient prophecies to prevent the complete extinction of the human species.
Life (2017)
David, Miranda, Rory, Katerina, Sho and Hugh are six astronauts who make up the crew of the International Space Station. They are on the verge of one of the most important discoveries in the history of civilization: the first evidence of life on Mars.
As the crew slowly begins their research, their methods lead to unintended consequences, and the new life form proves far more intelligent than anyone could have expected.
Deep Rising (1998)
South China Sea. A speedboat with mercenaries and a terrifying cargo – a nuclear warhead – is sailing towards the ship “Argonautic”. At the same time, not far away, the luxury ship “Argonautic” sails innocently and becomes the target of an attack by a huge unknown predator.
When the mercenaries arrive on the ship, they are confronted by several survivors who explain how giant mutated worms attacked them.
The Meg (2018)
When the international underwater center, run by Chinese scientists, finds itself under attack from an unknown danger and a destroyed and disabled submarine stands at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, Dr. Zhang Suyin, the center’s leading oceanographer, calls for help from former sea captain and expert diver Jonas Taylor. Jonas then embarks on an adventure that amounts to suicide.
Phantoms (1998)
The story begins when two sisters, Lisa (Rose McGowan) and Jenny (Joanna Going) arrive in Colorado for the winter. There they discover that their landlady is dead and that the town is completely deserted. They are soon joined by Sheriff Bryce (Ben Affleck) and his deputies Stu (Liev Schreiber) and Steve (Nicky Katt).
They conclude that the town is deserted because everyone is dead or missing, but as they head for the local hotel, they hear a song playing on the radio on the second floor, where a vague message says “Timothy Flyte” and “an old enemy”. As Stu is attacked by a terrifying creature that sucks his brains out, Bryce radios for help.
The federal police, then, come into contact with Flyte (Peter O’Toole), a professor from England who explains to them the theory of an “ancient enemy” that periodically comes to the surface of the earth and kills everyone it encounters. With the extinction of the human race on the horizon, Professor Flyte and an army of commandos arrive in Colorado with a battle plan in place.
The Shallows (2016)
In the tense thriller “Danger from the Deep”, Nancy (Blake Lively) surfs all alone on a remote coast. At one point, she is attacked by a great white shark and Nancy ends up stranded not far from the beach. However, although the coast that brings her salvation is only two hundred meters away, Nancy cannot reach it so easily.
Alien (1979)
Far future. The seven-member crew of the commercial space freighter “The Nostromo”, loaded with twenty million tons of mineral ores, returns to Earth. The crew members led by Captain Dallas (T. Skerritt) wake up from cryogenic sleep convinced that the company that owns the ship will pay them more money for a job well done. In addition to Dallas, officer Ripley (S. Weaver), her colleague Lambert (V. Cartwright), then Parker (Y. Koto), Brett (H. D. Stanton), Kane (J. Hurt), and the only android in the human team Ash (I. Holm).
And although their return home seemed to be a routine matter, a sudden call for help from a nearby planet forces the captain to follow the rules and immediately find out what’s going on. Landing, the crew discovers an abandoned spaceship where Kane is attacked by a primitive creature and attached to his face.
Despite the opposition of Officer Ripley, the other members decide to return Kane to the ship, unaware that the being that attacked him is only the initial life form of an intelligent and bloodthirsty monster that the Company knows about and how much.
47 Meters Down (2017)
Two sisters go to sunny Mexico for a vacation that turns into a nightmare, and that’s under the sea! One of the tourist attractions is watching dangerous sharks from a large cage. They enthusiastically embark on this adventure and descend deep below the sea surface.
But when something goes wrong, they remain trapped and desperate at the very bottom of the sea. With less than an hour of oxygen and a bunch of great white sharks circling and lurking around them, they have to fight for their bare lives.
Sweetheart (2019)
Jenn casts the sea ashore on a small tropical island, and she soon realizes that she is alone. In addition to all the problems she has, an unknown sinister appears every night, and Jenn has to find a way to survive it all.
Sector 7 (2011)
A small team of oil rig workers are searching for undiscovered oil at the oil rig Sector 7, off the coast of Jeju Island. After the tension builds from countless failures, the main character Hae-joon’s uncle returns with the hope of searching the untapped wells of oil. What they don’t realize is that he has a much different motive. Working together with a researcher on board the rig, he plans to breed a newly discovered life-form whose bodily fluids can burn for longer than 30 hours, as a new form of fuel instead of oil.
But tragedy strikes as the specimen escapes with deaths of the researcher, the doctor, and another worker to follow. With the loss of the main power, the workers become stranded as the creature begins to hunt for its next meal.
Armed with nothing but a few guns and the knowledge of the creature’s minor susceptibility to flame, the remaining workers must work together to kill the beast before it hunts them down one by one, and escape the oil rig. But with its incredible speed (despite its size), its lightning fast, spear-like tongue, and its nearly impenetrable hide, they may not stand a chance.
The Thing (1982)
Earth’s orbit, several thousand years ago. A spaceship crashes over the South Pole… Antarctica, winter 1982. A Norwegian helicopter feverishly pursues a dog that escaped from the base, trying in vain to eliminate it before it runs to the members of the American scientific expedition. In doing so, one Norwegian is killed by a poorly thrown grenade, and another is killed by the American Garry after the distraught man starts shooting with a sniper at the American base.
Assuming that a tragedy has befallen the Norwegian team, the pilot R. J. MacReady and the doctor, Dr. Cooper, immediately fly to the scene, convinced that the team there has experienced real carnage, leaving behind an unusual block of ice.
At the same time, the dog that the Americans accepted after a tragic chase turns into a terrible creature whose origin is anything but earthly, and the American base instantly becomes the scene of a bloody battle between humans and an alien that Dr. Blair concludes has the ability to perfectly transform into other life forms. shapes.
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Far out at sea, in the great depths of the ocean, a group of scientists will find out in the hardest possible way how laws, social and natural alike, must not be broken at any cost because otherwise there will be a punishment. In this case, deadly!
A group of researchers and scientists work on a remote submarine and are on the verge of discovering a nerve stimulant that could successfully treat Alzheimer’s disease, made from shark brain extract. However, without informing the rest of the team, the project leaders – Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) and Jim Whitlock (Stellan Skarsgård) increased the brains of the observed sharks using illegal genetic manipulation techniques, in order to achieve spectacular results as soon as possible.
During a great sea storm, during the celebration of the success of the expedition, the sharks try, and eventually succeed, to escape from their cages, and it seems that they have achieved this precisely by more intelligent grouping. In order to save lives, scientists, led by hunter Carter Blake (Thomas Jane) and chef Preacher (LL Cool J), must reach the surface as soon as possible.
Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
Little brothers are drawn into an intergalactic adventure when their house is magically found in space. When their father (Robbins) goes to work, leaving them in the care of their older sister, Lisa (Stewart), brothers Danny (Jonah Bobo), and Walter (Josh Hutcherson) are pulled into space while playing a mysterious game they found in the basement.
An astronaut (Dax Shepard) joins them on their fantastic journey, and they must survive a meteor shower, hostile aliens and a robot race. With the astronaut’s help, Danny and Walter stop their bickering and fight together to get home. But they still have to face their biggest challenge yet: fighting the powerful gravitational force that pulls them to the dark planet Zathura.
The Cave (2005)
Deep in the Romanian forest, a team of scientists stumble upon the ruins of a 13th-century abbey built over the entrance to a giant cave system. Local biologists believe the cave is home to an undiscovered ecosystem, so they hire a group of American speleologists to help them explore the caves. Jack (Hauser) and his brother Tyler (Cibrian) are professional cavers who lead a team of the best divers in the world, including Buchanan (Chestnut) and the beautiful Charlie (Perabo).
They arrive in Romania with state-of-the-art equipment, including a new scuba tank that allows a diver to stay underwater for up to 24 hours, and begin exploring. But what they will find deep in the caves is not only a new ecosystem, but also some completely new species…
Event Horizon (1997)
The lost spaceship “Event Horizon” has been found seven years after its mysterious disappearance. Now a first-rate rescue crew sets out in search of the truth… Only to discover a world of evil beyond their wildest nightmares.
Dr. William Weir is a scientist who designed a spaceship called Event Horizon that will explore the outer reaches of space beyond the planet Neptune. The ship uses a special transport mechanism that essentially creates a black hole that the ship can pass through allowing it to travel vast distances in seconds. Event Horizon mysteriously disappears mid-mission without any trace of the ship and crew, but reappears in Neptune’s orbit after a seven-year absence and sends a distress signal.
Spaceship “Lewis and Clark” and Dr. Weir were sent to investigate. The crew of Lewis and Clark are convinced that Weir is keeping something from them, and when they discover the Event Horizon, they discover that things are not what they seem, and the ship has been taken over by an evil presence.
Leviathan (1989)
In the last days of their shift, a crew of miners at a special submarine station came across the wreckage of the Russian ship Leviathan. They take the contents of the safe from the ship, and one of the members of the expedition puts a flask filled with Russian vodka in his pocket. A mistake my friend, a mistake.
Sunshine (2007)
The sky has darkened and the outlook for planet Earth is bleak. Although at first the encroaching darkness seems unstoppable, scientists come up with a last-minute desperate plan to buy the human race a temporary escape from the dark destiny lurking beyond the horizon. A crew of eight men and women are given a nuclear device designed to literally re-ignite the Sun and are sent racing through infinity, overcoming obstacles, on the most important space mission ever.
Suddenly, the crew loses radio contact with mission control and everything begins to fall apart. Now, in the darkest reaches of the galaxy, the men and women who may hold the key to ultimate survival realize they’re fighting not just for their lives, but for their sanity.
Pitch Black (2000)
When a spaceship crashes due to a meteor shower, it lands on a deserted desert planet, and among the few survivors is the hardened cold-blooded killer Riddick (V. Diesel). After finding an abandoned facility and water, it appears to the rest of the crew that the only danger on the planet with three suns and no nights is Riddick.
They will soon learn the hard way that there are murderous monsters in the underground that do not come out to the light, and almost at the same time they will learn that an eclipse of all three suns is coming soon, which will cover the planet in darkness for several days, and they will become prey. And the only one who can help them is Riddick.
The viewers recognized the quality of the film, and “Pitch Black” earned twice as much as invested in America alone. That, and the fact that Vin Diesel is now the legendary Riddick, makes us put it on the list of the best Black sci-fi movies.
Octopus (2000)
In October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Soviet submarine delivers barrels of nuclear material to Cuba, and has to outrun an American submarine. When the Executive officer suggests that the submarine should slow down and identify itself, the captain shoots him. The submarine is hit by torpedoes and damaged, drowning the crew and releasing radioactive material into its nearby waters. It causes an octopus to grow into a monstrous size, attacking submarines and naval vehicles off Cuba’s coasts.
In the year 2000, in Sofia, Bulgaria, two CIA officials, Roy Turner and Henry Campbell, discuss about files, before they go out for a walk. Meanwhile, someone disguised as an old woman gives a bag to an official’s daughter, but the bomb inside the bag detonates, killing everyone inside the American embassy and injuring many people nearby.
The two officials pursue the old woman, but the old woman’s henchmen crash a car at Henry, injuring and killing him. Afterwards, Roy pursues the old woman and captures her, and she is revealed to be the leader of a terrorist group.
The terrorist is captured and taken into a submarine, but his henchmen hijack the vehicle and threaten the crew to release him. However, the submarine is attacked by the giant octopus from before.
The Blob (1988)
A remake of the cult horror film from 1958 about a murderous gelatinous mass that devours everything in its path. Can anyone stop this mysterious being before it grows to gigantic proportions and threatens the entire world? One of the screenwriters is the famous Frank Darabont.
Sea Fever (2019)
The only marine biology student Siobhán has to spend a week on a fishing boat where she will not be comfortable with the already close-knit crew. But from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, an unknown life form captures the ship.
When crew members begin to show signs of a strange infection, Siobhán must overcome her alienation and gain the crew’s trust before they all die.
Cloverfield (2008)
How would a group of ordinary little people react to a monster attack on their town? The sane ones would take a camera and film what was happening. This is exactly what happened to five young people who were preparing a farewell party for a friend, and a monster the size of a skyscraper just attacked New York. This film is a document about their attempt to survive the most terrifying event in their lives.
Like The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield was shot from the perspective of a small portable camera. The chaos captured by a hand-held camera, which shakes and hides the horrors more than it shows them, leaves the worst things to our imagination. But don’t worry, this time the monster that is destroying New York will be shown. Do not think that this is a low-budget film, on the contrary, the visual and sound effects will really surprise you, and the camera work will completely immerse you in the events.
Annihilation (2018)
Something strange is happening in Zone X. We only know that there are no human beings living in the zone, the animal and plant life is unknown and unpredictable, and everything inside the Zone seems alive, as if it is part of one huge invisible entity.
Eleven expeditions have entered Zone X so far and all have ended badly. At the beginning of the story, we follow the 12th expedition, four women who put everything on the line to discover the real truth behind Zone X.
