You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: Top 20 Greatest Movies Located on the Ocean – In Order!
20. Abyssal Attack (1998)
Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a collection of memorable character actors portraying mercenaries contracted to demolish the luxury liner Argonautica. Yet a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.
18. Aquatic World (1995)
Kevin Costner acts as a warrior-esque nomad with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his gang of constantly puffing raiders.
17. The Titanic (1997)
An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of emancipation.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Working-class people, artistic entertainers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her prior to the ship sinks? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the famous French liner a real ship.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, is unable to halt numerous characters being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Two lead actors portray a partners trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the ocean, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.
12. The Maggie (1954)
An Englishman, moving furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's harsh British film in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.
10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is part of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the flipped vessel to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of competitive swimming.
9. All is Lost (2013)
The main star gives a mature masterclass in one-man show as a person fighting to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to film.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's suspense film, based on actual incidents. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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