You Should Consider a Bigger Boat: Top 20 Greatest Films Taking Place at Sea – Listed!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a bunch of attention-grabbing character actors acting as soldiers of fortune hired to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Among the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, grows up to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. Everyone is hunting for mythical Dryland while fending off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous tragedies. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from North America to Europe in 1933. The director's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's harsh British film in the rebellious tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director gives his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this anxiety-inducing story of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to the lead character to direct his flock through the flipped ship to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a handy history of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced brilliant acting in solo performance as a man fighting to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is damaged in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's stressful enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by African raiders off the specific location. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in this filmmaker's tense movie, based on real events. When the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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