You Might Want a Larger Vessel: 20 Finest Movies Located on the Ocean – Ranked!
20. Ocean Terror (1998)
This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a group of scene-stealing supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.
18. Ocean Planet (1995)
The main star portrays a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his band of constantly puffing raiders.
17. Titanic (1997)
An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of freedom.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a ocean liner sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its powerful impact.
15. The Last Voyage (1960)
The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the legendary historic ship Île de France.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.
13. Sea Silence (1989)
Nicole Kidman portray a partners trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the sea, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.
12. The Maggie Story (1954)
An British man, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh British film in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and team trick the main characters for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.
11. Juggernaut (1974)
The director imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing story of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the cruise director, provides a touching portrayal in humorous tragedy.
10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
This adaptation of this writer's literary work is part of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the flipped hull to safety. the actress is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a practical history of sports participation.
9. All is Lost (2013)
The main star gives a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual struggling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an lost cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.
8. Ship Commander (2013)
Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.
7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)
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