You Should Consider a Bigger Boat: Top 20 Greatest Motion Pictures Taking Place at Sea – Listed!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of memorable supporting players acting as mercenaries hired to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, taking place in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the planet. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off the villain and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from North America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their room in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her before the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester provides his suspense story a social commentary angle in this tension-filled yarn of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his flock through the inverted ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a handy history of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a individual fighting to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from true stories. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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