You Might Want a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Motion Pictures Located on the Ocean – Ranked!
20. Deep Rising (1998)
This filmmaker's science fiction thriller follows a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast portraying mercenaries hired to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A baby, deserted on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, grows up to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of the director's imaginative story is Roth competing in a piano duel with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.
18. Aquatic World (1995)
Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off the villain and his band of constantly puffing raiders.
17. Titanic (1997)
An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of among history's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting tale of liberation.
16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)
Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.
15. Ultimate Trip (1960)
The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their room in this compelling early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her ahead of the ship sinks? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Bette Davis are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.
13. Ocean Stillness (1989)
Nicole Kidman act as a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.
12. Maggie's Tale (1954)
An UK citizen, moving goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the term.
11. Overwhelming Power (1974)
This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.
10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)
This adaptation of the author's book is among the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the flipped hull to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of athletic swimming.
9. All is Lost (2013)
The lead actor delivers a experienced masterclass in single character portrayal as a man battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a crash with an lost cargo box. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
Tom Hanks provides sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's tense movie, based on real events. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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