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*Piranha (1972)

2.80 Rating

They hire Jim Pendrake to guide them through the jungle.

However, the trio run afoul of evil local hunter Caribe.

Director: William Gibson
Starring: William Smith, Peter Brown, Ahna Capri, Tom Simcox

*Killer Fish (1979)

4.10 Rating

100 min

Thieves of valuables make an effort to retrieve treasure from seas inhabited by piranhas. In the course of their pursuit of wealth, the gang engages in acts that are fraught with distrust and treachery.

Country: Brazil, Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Released: 1979

Director: Antonio Margheriti

Casts: Karen Black, James Franciscus, Marisa Berenson, Jorge Cherques, Charles Guardino

*Piranha (1978)

5.90 Rating

94 min

A young couple stumble across an abandoned US Army test site on a mountain, in which is a huge pool. Thinking it's an ordinary swimming pool, they jump in. But this pool is home to the piranha, and the couple are eaten alive. A young woman P.I. is hired by the father of one of the missing kids to find them, and she meets up with an alcoholic outdoorsman who lives on the mountain. The two of them find the test site and drain the pool to see what's in it. As they do they are accosted by Dr. Hoak - the sole resident of the test site - who informs them that the inhabitants of the pool were the products of a gene-splicing experiment called 'Operation Razorteeth', designed to produce a mutant strain of piranha fish for deployment in the Vietnam War against the NVA. The fish could live in cold water and breed at a high rate. Realizing that a children's summer camp and the Lost River Lake Resort downriver are in the piranhas' path, they set out to try to stop it. The piranha are well ahead of them, and they kill several people on their way downstream. When they try to warn the camp director and resort owner of the danger, they are arrested. Thanks to the woman's ingenuity they escape custody and race down to the camp in a state police car to warn them. But the piranha have already struck - and there are others who want to keep the danger of the piranha a secret.

Country: United States, Japan
Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror
Release: 1978

Director: Joe Dante
Production: New World Pictures
Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Bradford Dillman, Keenan Wynn, Paul Bartel, Eric Braeden, Barbara Steele, Richard Deacon, Dick Miller, Guich Koock, Bruce Gordon, Melody Thomas Scott, Joe Dante, Belinda Balaski, Heather Menzies Urich, Mike Sullivan, Shawn Nelson, Roger Richman, Bill Smillie, Bruce Paul Barbour, Barry Brown, Shannon Collins, Janie Squire, Jack Pauleson, Eric Henshaw, Robert Vinson, Virginia Dunnam, Diamond Farnsworth, Robyn Ray, Jack Cardwell, Sally Bondi

*Piranha II: The Spawning (1981)

3.70 Rating

94 min

In a Caribbean island, a couple is found dead inside a sunken ship. The scuba diving instructor of the local resort Anne Kimbrough breaks in the morgue with her acquaintance Tyler Sherman and finds that the bodies have been eaten in many parts. They have one night stand and Tyler tells her that he is a biochemist that have developed a specimen of genetically modified piranha capable of flying to be the ultimate weapon. Unfortunately they had lost a cylinder full of the new breed in the water. During the fishing party promoted by the resort, the piranhas attack the guests. Anne and Tyler decide to explode the ship to destroy the nest of the predator.

Country: United States, Netherlands, Italy
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Romance, Horror
Release: 1981

Director: James Cameron,Ovidio G. Assonitis,1 more credit
Production: Brouwersgracht Investments, Chako Film Company
Cast: Lance Henriksen, Carole Davis, Ted Richert, Ricky Paull Goldin, Arnie Ross, Tricia ONeil, Steve Marachuk, Leslie Graves, Connie Lynn Hadden, Tracey Berg, Albert Sanders, Anne Pollack, Hildy Magnasun, Phil Colby, Lee Krug

*Piranha (1995)

3.90 Rating

89 min

The private investigator Maggie McNamara from Lyon Investigation is hired by the wealthy J.R. Randolph to find his niece that has disappeared with her boyfriend. Maggie seeks out the lonely environmentalist Paul Grogan to help her to look for the teenager. They head to an abandoned army facility and Maggie decides to drain the pools to see whether the body of the girl is there. They are assaulted by a woman with a crowbar but they subdue her. However she escapes and soon they learn that the woman is Dr. Leticia Baines, who is researching a hybrid species of piranha that is capable to survive in fresh and sea waters for military purpose. Further, Maggie has release the piranhas on the river and they are heading to the Lost River Lake Resort. Maggie and Paul inform the corrupt local Sheriff but Randolph tells him to lock them up since he does not want to jeopardize the party he has promoted to his resort.

Country: United States, Japan
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Release: 1995

Director: Scott P. Levy
Production: Showtime Networks, Concorde New Horizons
Cast: Don Pedro Colley, Alexandra Paul, Mila Kunis, William Katt, James Karen, Leland Orser, Soleil Moon Frye, Kaz Garas, Kehli OByrne, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Darleen Carr, Richard Israel, James Brodhead, Monte Markham, John Nelson, Ben Slack, Billie Worley, Drancy Jackson, Joey Aresco, Shannon Farrara, Lorissa McComas, Chelsea Madison Ciu, David Parry, Aaron Priceman, Tracy Shakespeare, Gabriel Bologna, Kevin Contreras, Christopher Murphy, Rob Kerchner, Joshua D Comen

*Razorteeth (2005)

2.3 Rating

115 min

A government agent must act quickly when a planeload of frozen piranhas crashes into a lake near a resort and the hungry, mutant fish begin to thaw.

Country: United States

Genre: Horror

Release: 2005

Director: John Polonia Mark Polonia

Cast: Stevan AnselmiBrian BerryTodd CarpenterDave FifeBrice Kennedy

Mega Piranha (2010)

2.4
92 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Starring: Paul Logan, Tiffany, Barry Williams, David Labiosa
Director: Eric Forsberg

When a science experiment goes horribly wrong, gigantic fish gain appetites for human flesh.

A mutant strain of giant ferocious piranha escape from the Amazon and eat their way toward Florida.

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*Piranha 3D (2010)

5.50 Rating

88 min

Sheriff Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue) and Deputy Fallon (Ving Rhames), investigate an incident involving a missing fisherman, Matt Boyd (Richard Dreyfuss) near a Mesolithic Era Dig near Lake Victoria. After locating his chewed-up body, they send it for an autopsy. While attending to another incident, they capture a live unknown species of fish, which they take for analysis to Goodman (Christopher Lloyd), who informs them that it is a living example of an extinct prehistoric fish known as the Piranha. Fearing an attack on humans during the Spring Break, she attempts to warn everyone to stay away from the waters - albeit in vain - and must use all her resources to combat an all-out attack. While she and her department attempt to deal with this issue, she gets a message that her son, Jake (Steven R. McQueen), (supposed to be baby-sitting his much younger siblings), that he, along with a film cast and crew, as well his girlfriend, Kelly (Jessica Szohr), are stranded abroad a stalled yacht, and may end up being the latest victims to these razor-toothed fish.

Country: United States
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Release: 2010

Director: Alexandre Aja
Production: Dimension Films, Intellectual Properties Worldwide I
Cast: Jerry OConnell, Elisabeth Shue, Richard Dreyfuss

*Piranha-Man vs. Werewolf Man: Howl of the Piranha (2010)

3.4 Rating

110 min

Piranha-Man Versus WereWolf-Man: Howl of the Piranha details the epic generations-long battle between two of natures most perfect killing machines! The rivalry between the fish-like Piranha-Man and the canine WereWolf-Man is one of brutal murder, familial kidnappings, stalking, and incest!

Country: United States

Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy

Release: 2010

Directed: Dorian Knight Steve Goldenberg

Cast: Carrie Long Ian Hinck Karla Yeh Charlotte C. Leighton Paul Bacca

*Piranha 3DD (2012)

3.80 Rating

83 min

Lake Victory is a dead place after the tragic events with the invasion of prehistoric flesh-eaters piranhas. In Cross Lake, Merkin County, the greedy Chet opens The Big Wet Water Park against the will of his stepdaughter Maddy. When the van of her friends Travis and Ashley is found in the water and the couple is missing, Maddy and her friend Shelby miss them and they talk on a wooden deck on the lake; out of the blue, they are attacked by piranhas. Maddy visits the specialist in piranhas Mr. Carl Goodman with her former school friend Barry, who works at The Big Wet, and with her former boyfriend, Deputy Kyle, and they discover piranhas in the lake. However Chet refuses to shutdown his water park and soon his costumers are under the attack of the fearful piranhas.

Country: United States, Japan
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Release: 2012

Director: John Gulager
Production: Dimension Films, Intellectual Properties Worldwide I
Cast: Ving Rhames, David Hasselhoff, Danielle Panabaker

*Piranhaconda (2012)

2.90 rating

90 min

A hybrid creature - half piranha and half anaconda -- attacks a low-budget horror movie crew on location near her nest when her egg is stolen. Now they must outrun and kill the deadly piranhaconda as well as stop the mad scientist who stole the egg - before they all become dinner.

Country: United States

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Comedy

Released: 2012

Director: Jim Wynorski

Casts: Michael Madsen, Rachel Hunter, Rib Hillis, Teri Ivens, Chris De Christoper

*Piranha Sharks (2017)

3.30 Raing

1H19 min

Great white sharks bio-engineered to be the size of piranhas with the purpose of living in rich people's exotic aquariums terrorize New York City when they get into the water supply and do what great white sharks do best.

Country: United States

Genres:Horror Sci-Fi

Release: 2017

Director:Leigh Scott

Starring: Collin Galyean, Ramona Mallory, Josh Hammond, John Wells

*Piranha Women (2022)

3.2 Rating

57 min

When Richard becomes suspicious of his girlfriend's new experimental medical treatment, he grows even more concerned after she suddenly vanishes.

Country: United States

Genres: Horror Sci-Fi

Release: 2022

Directed: Fred Olen Ray

Cast: Bobby Rice Sof Puchley Keep Chambers Jon Briddell Carrie Overgaard Houston Rhines