You're Gonna Need a Larger Vessel: Top 20 Greatest Motion Pictures Located on the Ocean – Ranked!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune contracted to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. However 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 newborn, deserted on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous tragedies. One must appreciate the boldness of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's epic features a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, 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. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this intense early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the main character and a brave technician (the actor) free her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the famous historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into using a poor condition "type of boat" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the subversive style of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation angle in this tension-filled yarn of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's book is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to the lead character to lead his flock through the upturned hull to security. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person battling to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is impaired in a crash with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by real events. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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