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Opening in theaters, on digital, and On Demand beginning January 28th is the new shark movie, 'The Requin' starring Alicia Silverstone ('Clueless') and James Tupper ('Playing for Keeps').
The shark movie phenomenon really began in 1975 with Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws,' which is often attributed with creating the modern blockbuster. The trend has continued since then with dozens of new shark movies trying to compete with Spielberg's masterpiece.
With 'The Requin' scheduled to open this week, we thought it would be a good time to look back at some of the best shark movies of all time!
Jaws (1975)
When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, the police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the blood-thirsty beast.
The Shallows (2016)
When Nancy is surfing on a secluded beach, she finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of Nancy's ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.
Open Water (2004)
Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
This one is a bit of a cheat as 'The Suicide Squad' is technically not a "shark movie" but it does feature a shark! Sylvester Stallone ('Rocky') voices King Shark, a man-eating shark-human hybrid, and the character steals almost every scene he's in! A sequel to 2016's 'Suicide Squad,' the film once again features secret government agent Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) forcing a group of super-villains on a suicide mission, this time to the island of Corto Maltese. The team includes King Shark, Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Peacemaker (John Cena), and Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie).
Read Moviefone's 'The Suicide Squad' review.
The Meg (2018)
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
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.
Bait (2012)
A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a 12-foot great white shark.
47 Meters Down (2017)
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.
Shark Night (2011)
A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.
The Reef (2010)
A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
