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Movies that feel like 47 Meters Down (2017)

If you loved 47 Meters Down, the closest films we have are The Shallows (2016), 30 Days of Night (2007) and Evil Dead Rise (2023). All three share 47 Meters Down's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 53% Rotten Tomatoes5.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Johannes Robertsdreadunsettlingtense
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The Shallows
2016 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 78%6.3horror · drama · thriller

Both are working the same pair: shark attack, creature

The difference: Reviewed even better

While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of her ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.

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30 Days of Night
2007 · dir. David Slade
🍅 51%6.6horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: creature

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

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Evil Dead Rise
2023 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 85%6.5horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: brothers and sisters

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
5.5horror · thriller

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%5.3thriller · horror

Tense horror in both cases

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 34%5.7horror · thriller

Thriller built on dread, twice over

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

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The Visit
2015 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 68%6.3horror · thriller

Common ground: brothers and sisters

A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%5.5horror · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%5.5horror · thriller

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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Don't Breathe 2
2021 · dir. Rodo Sayagues
6thriller · horror

Unsettling thriller in both cases

The Blind Man has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a devastating house fire. Their quiet life together is shattered when a group of criminals kidnap the girl, forcing the Blind Man to leave his safe haven to save her.

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
5.8horror · thriller

A streak of tension through both

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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