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Alligators and Crocodiles In Movies

There are hundreds of movies with alligators and crocodiles in them, including every Tarzan movie, most movies with the word "swamp" or "jungle" in the title, and plenty of horror movies where they are huge bloodthirsty killers. This is not meant to be a list of every movie with a crocodile or alligator in it, just a few I've seen.

Most of these are live-action feature fiction films or TV movies, with some exceptions.

Links lead to pictures and information about the crocodilians and the movies on one of the pages listed above.

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Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching a film.

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("A", "An" and "The" at the start of the title can be ignored.)

The 10th Victim (1965)

A victim in a legal human hunting club plans to kill the woman who is hunting him by throwing her in a pool with a hungry crocodile.

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)

Ace Ventura gets in a hilarious fight with a crocodile in a river in Africa.

Adaptation (2002)

A night chase through a Florida swamp turns ugly when one of the pursuers is torn apart by alligators.

Alligator (1980)

A baby alligator flushed down a toilet lives in the sewer for 12 years where it grows into a monster size after ingesting experimental growth hormones in dead laboratory animals that are dumped into the sewer. When it leaves the sewer it develops a taste for human meat.

The Alligator People (1959)

A man receives an experimental medical treatment that turns him into an alligator.

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)

Big Pharma goons seeking a magic flower in Borneo encounter killer crocodiles.

Annihilation (2018)

An expedition into a mysterious zone encounters a gigantic white mutated alligator that attacks them without provocation.

The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans (2009)

An alligator trying to cross a road gets killed and causes an auto accident.

Crawl (2019)

During a monster hurricane, a young Florida woman is trapped in a flooded basement full of bloodthirsty alligators.

Crocodile Dundee (1986)

Sue is attacked by a large crocodile when she is filling her canteen. Dundee jumps on it and shoves his huge knife into its head to kill it.

Crocodile Dundee II (1988)

Dundee wears a crocodile costume and pulls his friend Wally underwater to pretend that Wally was killed by a crocodile.

Death Curse of Tartu (1966)

A Native American medicine man vowed that if anyone disturbed his sacred burial grounds he would come back from the dead and turn into a wild beast to kill them. He changes into a large alligator to finish off a young woman archeologist.

Distant Drums (1951)

An alligator pulls a soldier underwater in the Florida Everglades and the "Wilhelm Scream" is born.

Dr. Cyclops (1940)

Little people shrunk by a mad scientist fight off an alligator.

Eraser (1996)

During a gunfight in a reptile house, Arnold Schwarzenneger is running out of bullets, so he shoots the crocodile tank, knocking out some of the bad guys with a flood of water and hungry reptiles, but one of them chases him and almost bites his head off.

Exodus: Gods & Kings

The ten plagues of Egypt are started by crocodiles attacking and leaving the river full of blood.

Frogs (1972)

Nature runs amok, with alligators and other animals killing the humans who are polluting their habitat.

Gold of the Amazon Women (1979)

Two women fight for a man by trying to knock their opponent into crocodile-infested waters.

Hatari (1962)

Two men who are enemies are stranded in the middle of a river in Africa. One man walks to the shore while the second one stands guard with a rifle. When a crocodile swims over to attack the first man, the second one shoots and kills it. The men become close freinds afterwards.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Evil cult members fall into a river full of crocodiles where they are eaten alive.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Crocodiles

Joe Dirt (2001)

As part of a show at a Florida gator farm, Joe puts his head inside a giant alligator's mouth, but the gator chews him up and spits him out.

Jumanji (1995)

A man, woman, and two children playing a too-realistic board game are trapped in a flooded house when a crocodile attacks. The man jumps on it and wrestles it to save the day.

Lake Placid (1999)

A gigantic crocodile causes havoc in a tourist lake in Maine.

Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015) (Fifth movie in the Anaconda franchise)

Giant crocodiles vs. giant snakes vs. college girls in tiny bikinis.

Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

In ancient Egypt, soldiers who were failures, cowards and deserters are thrown to the crocodiles as punishment.

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

Tarzan makes a crodocile mating call to call in a gang of his toothy buddies so they will kill his evil nemesis.

Live and Let Die (1973)

Stranded on a small island where he is threatened by man-eating crocodiles, James Bond runs across their backs to escape.

The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)

A British Secret Service man is captured by diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu and strapped to a device that slowly lowers him into a pit full of alligators.

Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011)

Gigantic Pythons and Alligators fight it out in the Everglades, while the women who created the monsters fight each other.

Murders in the Zoo (1933)

A man throws his wife into a pond full of alligaters that kill and eat her.

The Naked Prey (1965)

You can't make a jungle adventure movie without a few crocodiles.

Octopussy (1983)

James Bond hides himself in a fake crocodile to sneak across a lake full of real crocs to get to an island.

OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)

A spy stranded in the Brazilian jungle shoots a crocodile then tries to cook it for dinner.

Papillon (1973)

Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman are prisoners in the tropics who are forced to wrestle with a crocodile.

Pearl (2022)

Pearl is a psycopath who kills farmyard animals and people then feeds them to an alligator that lives in the pond on her property.

Repligator (1996)

Military scientists create a transporter device that fails and accidentally turns men into women who then develop alligator heads.

Rogue (2007)

A boat full of tourists is destroyed by an enormous crocodile, stranding everyone on a tiny island that is slowly disappearing due to rising tidewaters, leaving them at the mercy of the hungry reptile.

Romancing the Stone (1984)

Crocodiles play an important part in this popular action/adventure/romantic comedy about a man and woman who meet and fall in love in Colombia while looking for a valuable jewel that other more heavily-armed men are also searching for.

The Sign of the Cross (1932)

Crocodiles are released into the coliseum in Rome to feast on a woman wearing only flowers.

Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) #1

A man tries to swim to a raft but gets dragged under by a crocodile. Tarzan escapes some pursuing crocodiles by jumping on the back of a hippopatamus.

Tarzan and His Mate (1934) #2

Tarzan saves Jane from a crocodile and Cheetah escapes from one by paddling a log to the shore.

Tarzan Escapes (1936) #3

Tarzan dives into a lake to rescue a baby deer and wrestles a huge crocodile underwater.

Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939) #4

Boy feeds a crocodile like a pet and outswims crocodiles trying to eat him.

The Tender Warrior (1971)

We see several alligators in a Georgia swamp. A poacher falls into the water and wrestles an alligator that grabs the bottom of his pants. A boy calls a big gator he knows and feeds it a fish.

That Man from Rio (1964)

A French soldier on leave parachutes into the Brazilian jungle where he is stuck in a tree above a crocodile.

Wild America (1997)

Three young brothers, searching for wildlife to film, rent a boat and search at night with flashlights. Two boys get out to wade in the swamp, but a big alligator finds them and they scramble to get back to the boat alive.

The Wild Women of Wongo (1958)

Wongo worships alligators, sacrifices women to them, and celebrates them in dance, but once in a while they also have to wrestle one to keep it from eating someone.

X (2022)

A porographic film crew in rural Texas finds themselves in alligator-infested waters.

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