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Movies that feel likeThe Shallows (2016)

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.

If you loved The Shallows, the closest films we have are Orphan (2009), Crawl (2019) and Berberian Sound Studio (2012). All three share The Shallows' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is La Llorona (2019).

🍅 78% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jaume Collet-Serradreadunsettlingcontemplativetense
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Orphan
2009 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 59%★ 7horror · thrillerMax

Jaume Collet-Serra working the same nerve twice

The difference: Trades the stillness of The Shallows for an angle of its own

After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.

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Crawl
2019 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 84%★ 6.1horror · thrillerNetflixParamount+

Both are working the same pair: animal attack, creature

When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 · dir. Peter Strickland
🍅 85%★ 6.2horror · drama · thriller

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

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La Llorona
2019 · dir. Jayro Bustamante
🍅 96%★ 6.6thriller · horror · dramaRent or buy

Both land stillness and tension at once

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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Stoker
2013 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 70%★ 6.7drama · horror · thrillerMax

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Following her father Richard's death in an unexplained road accident, reclusive teenager India Stoker withdraws further into the quiet rural life she shares with her emotionally disturbed mother Evie. But her curiosity is stirred when her mysterious uncle Charlie, who she has never met, suddenly arrives unannounced. Told that the darkly charismatic Charlie will now be staying at the house, India's initial well-founded distrust of her uncle's motivations begins to waver as she finds herself becoming ever more deeply entranced by his sinister charms.

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Titane
2021 · dir. Julia Ducournau
🍅 90%★ 6.4drama · thriller · horrorRent or buy

Both lean on unease more than on drama

A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.

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47 Meters Down
2017 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 53%★ 5.6horror · thrillerStarz

The same two preoccupations: shark attack, and shark

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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.

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Run
2020 · dir. Aneesh Chaganty
🍅 88%★ 6.7thriller · horror · dramaHulu

Contemplative thriller in both cases

Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.

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Flatliners
2017 · dir. Niels Arden Oplev
🍅 4%★ 5.2drama · horror · thriller

Horror built on tension, twice over

Five medical students, hoping to understand the mystery of what lies beyond life, embark on a dangerous experiment. When their hearts are stopped for a short period of time, they have a near-death experience…

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Speak No Evil
2022 · dir. Christian Tafdrup
🍅 83%★ 6.7horror · thriller · dramaRent or buy

Dread-soaked drama, and it commits to that

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

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House of Wax
2005 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 27%★ 5.5horror · thriller · mysteryMax

Jaume Collet-Serra directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than The Shallows does

A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

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The Orphanage
2007 · dir. J. A. Bayona
🍅 87%★ 7.4horror · drama · thriller

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

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