Underwater action films

Avatar: The Way of Water is a 2022 American epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron and written by Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It is the second installment in the Avatar film series and the sequel to Avatar (2009). Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Stephen Lang reprise their roles from the first film, with Sigourney Weaver returning in an additional role and Kate Winslet joining the cast. The plot follows Jake Sully, a human-Na'vi hybrid, and his family on the habitable moon Pandora. Hunted by RDA forces, they flee to an oceanic region to seek refuge with the Metkayina clan.

2018 film directed by James Wan

1965 film by Terence Young

1977 film by Lewis Gilbert

1981 film by John Glen

1983 film by Irvin Kershner

2018 film by Jon Turteltaub

1989 film by James Cameron

2003 film directed by Jan de Bont

2005 film by John Stockwell

1998 film by Barry Levinson

1999 film directed by Renny Harlin

2023 film directed by Ben Wheatley

Pandorum is a 2009 science fiction horror film directed by Christian Alvart, produced by Robert Kulzer, Jeremy Bolt and Paul W. S. Anderson (the latter two through their Impact Pictures banner), and starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster. Travis Milloy wrote the screenplay from a story by Milloy and Alvart. The film's title is a fictional slang term for a form of psychosis caused by deep space and triggered by emotional stress, leading to severe paranoia, delirium, and nosebleeds. Pandorum was released on 25 September 2009 in the United States, and on 2 October 2009 in the UK. The film was poorl

2020 film directed by William Eubank

2008 film directed by Andy Tennant

1977 film directed by Peter Yates

2011 film by Alister Grierson

1967 drama film directed by Robert Enrico

1989 film by George P. Cosmatos

2014 film by Kevin Macdonald

Amsterdamned is a 1988 Dutch crime thriller with slasher film elements directed and written by Dick Maas, and stars Huub Stapel, Monique van de Ven, and Serge-Henri Valcke. The plot revolves around a serial killer who uses the famed canals of the Amsterdam to murder random people, one of which involves a detective's girlfriend linked to the murders.

2018 film directed by Pasha Patriki

1989 film by Sean S. Cunningham

2009 film by Stephen Herek

2024 Indian Movie directed by Sukumar

1951 film by Lloyd Bacon

Thrash is a 2026 American survival thriller film written and directed by Tommy Wirkola. It stars Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak, and Djimon Hounsou. The film sees a coastal town face a Category 5 hurricane whose flooding brings in ravenous sharks. Wirkola produced with Adam McKay and Kevin Messick of Hyperobject Industries.

Underwater! is a 1955 adventure film starring Jane Russell, Richard Egan, and Gilbert Roland, and directed by John Sturges.

Khadaan (; ) is a 2024 Indian Bengali-language action thriller film written and directed by Soojit Rino Dutta. Produced by Nispal Singh and Dev under the banners of Surinder Films and Dev Entertainment Ventures respectively, the film stars Dev in dual roles, alongside Jisshu Sengupta in the lead, with an ensemble cast of Anirban Chakrabarti, Barkha Bisht, Idhika Paul, John Bhattacharya, Partha Sarathi Chakraborty, Sneha Bose, Sujan Neel Mukherjee, Sumit Ganguly and Raja Dutta. In the film, an ordinary fair organizer from a coal mine near the Damodar Valley, is recruited by his dead father's li

2006 film by Andrey Kavun

2009 film by Anthony D'Souza

2011 film by Kim Ji-hun

1919 film by Maurice Tourneur

2013 film directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg

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1972 film by Michael Tuchner

2023 film directed by Ryoo Seung-wan

1981 film by David Hemmings

1958 film by William Fairchild

1980 film by Igor Matveevitsj Voznesenskiy

Shark! (also known as Caine and Man-Eater) is a 1969 Mexican-American action film directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Burt Reynolds and Silvia Pinal. In the film, a stranded gunrunner is recruited for a treasure hunting expedition in the Red Sea. The mission requires him to dive into shark-infested waters.

2022 film directed by Abhishek Sharma

1953 film by Budd Boetticher

1962 film by Alfred Vohrer

1962 film by Roy Ward Baker

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1974 film by Harald Reinl, Jürgen Roland

1951 film by Lewis R. Foster

1952 film by Gordon Douglas

1979 film by Enzo G. Castellari

1943 film by Edgar George Ulmer

1978 film by Tonino Ricci

2000 film by Jean Pellerin

1951 film by Joseph Kane

film directed by Hajime Satō

1933 film by Albert S. Rogell

1975 film by Cornel Wilde

1982 film by Mohan Segal

Aatank (English: Terror) is a 1996 Indian action thriller film written by Sachin Bhowmick and directed by Prem Lalwani and Desh Mukherjee. The film stars Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Vinod Mehra, Ravi Kishen in the lead roles. The film began principal photography in the mid-1980s and was delayed for several years before being released in 1996. A sub-plot with a killer shark may have been inspired by the 1975 American film Jaws.