You Should Consider a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Movies Located on the Ocean – Ranked!
20. Deep Rising (1998)
The director's futuristic scarefest details a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Among the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.
19. The 1900 Story (1998)
A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The highlight of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.
18. Waterworld (1995)
Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. Everyone is searching for mythical Dryland while fending off the villain and his group of chain-smoking pirates.
17. Titanic (1997)
A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an inspiring tale of liberation.
16. Ship of Fools (1965)
Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to the Continent in 1933. The director's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.
15. Ultimate Trip (1960)
The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her prior to the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the renowned French liner a real ship.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Angela Lansbury are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The main star, as the famous detective, fails to stop half the cast being killed, which reduces his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.
13. Sea Silence (1989)
Two lead actors act as a partners seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.
12. The Maggie Story (1954)
An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in all senses of the term.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
The director provides his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.
10. Ocean Disaster (1972)
This adaptation of this writer's novel is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his followers through the upturned hull to safety. Shelley Winters is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy history of sports participation.
9. All is Lost (2013)
The lead actor gives a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to record.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
The lead actor provides sterling work in among his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, based on true stories. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.
7. Triangle (2009)
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