You Might Want a Larger Vessel: 20 Finest Films Taking Place at Sea – Ranked!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of scene-stealing character actors playing mercenaries hired to sink the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. Everyone is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a commercial vessel journeying from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is trapped in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing tale of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's book is among the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his flock through the inverted hull to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. Should the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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