You're Gonna Need a More Substantial Ship: The 20 Best Films Taking Place at Sea – Ranked!
20. Deep Rising (1998)
The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing mercenaries contracted to sink the cruise ship the main setting. But a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who remains aboard the boat. The peak moment of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth battling a piano duel with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.
18. Aquatic World (1995)
The main star plays a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing raiders.
17. Titanic (1997)
A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of emancipation.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's epic stars a legendary actress, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.
15. Ultimate Trip (1960)
The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Angela Lansbury are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Two lead actors portray a married couple trying to get over the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's thriller is essentially a horror film at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.
12. The Maggie (1954)
An UK citizen, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.
11. Overwhelming Power (1974)
Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking portrayal in tragicomic desperation.
10. Ocean Disaster (1972)
This film version of the author's literary work is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the upturned ship to rescue. a supporting player is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of sports participation.
9. All is Lost (2013)
The lead actor provides a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual battling to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.
8. Vessel Leader (2013)
Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's tense movie, based on real events. When the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.
7. Triangle (2009)
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