You're Gonna Need a More Substantial Ship: 20 Finest Movies Taking Place at Sea – Ranked!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of memorable ensemble cast portraying soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the luxury liner Argonautica. But a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his group of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship sailing from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is trapped in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the main character and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is represented by the famous French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being killed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, shipping goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's dark British film in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and team trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation perspective in this nerve-shredding story of explosives positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his followers through the inverted ship to safety. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a individual fighting to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by real events. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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