You Might Want a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Films Taking Place at Sea – In Order!
20. Abyssal Attack (1998)
Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest follows a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players playing hired guns contracted to sink the cruise ship the main setting. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A baby, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a overconfident individual.
18. Ocean Planet (1995)
The main star plays a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. The entire population is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.
17. The Titanic (1997)
A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring tale of freedom.
16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)
Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel journeying from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's epic features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The fictional ship is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the famous European vessel a real ship.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.
13. Sea Silence (1989)
Sam Neill play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.
12. The Maggie (1954)
An British man, moving items for an American industrialist, is tricked into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
The director imparts his suspense story a social commentary perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching portrayal in sadly funny despair.
10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)
This adaptation of this writer's novel is part of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the flipped vessel to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of sports participation.
9. Everything's Gone (2013)
Robert Redford gives a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a impact with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, 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 provides outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, based on actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.
7. Triangle (2009)
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