Movies like Primate (2026)
The best movies like Primate (2026) are Bait (2012), Coyotes (2025) and The Devil's Mouth (2026). If Primate hooked you with its horror and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDon't Breathe (2016)7.0/10 from 8,246 votes
- NewestBeware Boiúna (2026)Released 2026
Bait (2012)
A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a 12-foot great white shark.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCoyotes (2025)
Trapped in their Hollywood Hills home, a family fights for survival when caught between a raging wildfire and a pack of savage coyotes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Devil's Mouth (2026)
A group of college friends' Thailand adventure turns deadly when they become trapped in submerged caves with a dangerous predator. As oxygen runs low, past conflicts emerge in their desperate fight for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeware Boiúna (2026)
A medical mission deep in the Amazon becomes a desperate fight for survival when a colossal ancient predator awakens, turning the jungle into a deadly battleground where nature decides who lives and dies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOut Come the Wolves (2024)
At a cabin deep in the wilderness, a weekend of hunting turns to mayhem and a fight for survival when a pack of wolves attack a man, his female best friend and her fiance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisRiver (2027)
After the death of their father, three siblings take a boat trip to spread their dad's ashes. However, they discover they have inadvertently stumbled onto the hunting grounds of a strange pair of masked killers, and must fight for their lives on a busted motorboat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Coming SoonMovies like thisCrawlers (2026)
Tenants at Paradiso Palms apartments fight a deadly spider invasion while the cunning building manager might be their only hope for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnaconda (2024)
A struggling circus crew gets deceived by its former partner, as it embarks on a tour in Thailand. During the journey through a Southeast Asian rainforest, they encounter attacks by a giant python. They meet a mysterious man named Jeff who offers to help, but they soon realize he's a poacher. As they search for Jeff's boat, they face life-and-death struggles with the python and Jeff himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Pack (2015)
Man’s best friend becomes his worst nightmare when a horde of bloodthirsty wild dogs descends upon a family’s farmhouse in a fang-bearing fight for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDangerous Animals (2025)
A savvy and free-spirited surfer is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer. Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRogue (2007)
When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBackcountry (2015)
A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPrey (2007)
An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThrash (2026)
When a catastrophic hurricane slams a coastal town, stranded residents must survive rapidly rising waters swarming with ravenous sharks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like this47 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTill Death (2021)
After a romantic evening at their secluded lake house, a woman wakes up handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her late spouse's twisted plan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSomething in the Water (2024)
After lesbian couple Meg and Kayla split following a traumatic homophobic incident, their three friends are intent on mending the rift during the wedding of Lizzie at a paradise resort. But a pre-wedding boat excursion turns to disaster and the wedding breakfast is likely to be the five girls!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHungry (2026)
A group of holidaymakers must fight for their lives against a rampaging hippo on the loose after becoming lost in the Louisiana swamplands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
A scientific expedition sets out for Borneo to seek a flower called the Blood Orchid, which could grant extended life. Meanwhile, they run afoul of snakes and each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Breed (2006)
Brothers John and Matt have inherited an island cabin from their recently deceased uncle. Along with Matt's girlfriend, Nicki, and other mutual friends, the siblings travel to the cabin for a relaxing weekend getaway. But, not long after arriving, the group is besieged by ravenous dogs. They watch in horror as another vacationer, Luke, is eaten alive. Soon, they discover a training facility where the dogs have been bred to kill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisVacancy (2007)
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCrawl (2019)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWilderness (2006)
Juvenile delinquents are sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoner's death, where they must fight for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEden Lake (2008)
When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJaws 2 (1978)
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Breathe (2016)
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInto the Grizzly Maze (2015)
Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly bear.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisPrey (2019)
After being put on a supposedly uninhabited island as a form of behavioral rehabilitation, a high school senior finds that he's not alone on the island, and that getting discovered could be deadly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Pool (2018)
Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Primate?
The closest matches to Primate are Bait (2012), Coyotes (2025) and The Devil's Mouth (2026). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Primate?
People who watched Primate most often go on to Bait (2012), Coyotes (2025) and The Devil's Mouth (2026).
What is the highest-rated movie like Primate?
Don't Breathe (2016), rated 7.0/10 by 8,246 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Primate?
Beware Boiúna (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Primate?
Yes: Bait (2012), Coyotes (2025) and The Devil's Mouth (2026).
How are movies similar to Primate chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Primate, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.