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Movies that feel likeUnderwater (2020)

After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

If you loved Underwater, the closest films we have are Shin Godzilla (2016), Resident Evil (2026) and Colony (2026). All three share Underwater's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Godzilla Minus One (2023).

🍅 48% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. William Eubankdreadunsettlingcerebralkineticepic
10 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Shin Godzilla
2016 · dir. Shinji Higuchi
🍅 87%★ 6.9action · science fiction · horrorMax

Two things both keep coming back to: monster and giant monster

The difference: Reviewed even better

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

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Resident Evil
2026 · dir. Zach Cregger
🍅 96%★ 7.3horror · science fiction · adventureRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: survival

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than Underwater does

Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

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Colony
2026 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 82%★ 6.5horror · action · science fiction

Both land dread and unease at once

Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.

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Deep Blue Sea
1999 · dir. Renny Harlin
🍅 60%★ 6action · horror · science fictionStarz

Cerebral and kinetic in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives.

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Godzilla Minus One
2023 · dir. Takashi Yamazaki
🍅 99%★ 7.6science fiction · horror · actionNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: monster

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.

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M3GAN
2022 · dir. Gerard Johnstone
🍅 93%★ 6.3science fiction · horrorNetflix

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

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Meg 2: The Trench
2023 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 27%★ 5action · science fiction · horrorMax

Both are working the same pair: deep sea, underwater

An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.

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#Alive
2020 · dir. Cho Il
★ 6.3action · horror · science fictionNetflix

One thread runs through both: survival

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

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Doom
2005 · dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak
🍅 18%★ 5.2action · horror · science fictionStarz

Science fiction built on unease, twice over

A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.

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Resident Evil: Afterlife
2010 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 21%★ 5.8action · adventure · horrorNetflixPrime Video

Both lean on scale more than on action

In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

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Black Adam
2022 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 39%★ 6.1action · adventure · science fictionNetflixMax

Cerebral adventure, and it commits to that

Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.

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The New Mutants
2020 · dir. Josh Boone
🍅 36%★ 5.3science fiction · horrorDisney+

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.

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