You Should Consider a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Motion Pictures Taking Place at Sea – Listed!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a group of attention-grabbing character actors portraying mercenaries hired to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star acts as a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his group of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from Latin America to Europe in 1933. The director's sweeping drama includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their room in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which narrows his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the sea, where they recover a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh British film in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and crew trick the main characters for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a social commentary perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the flipped vessel to rescue. the actress is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man battling to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks does sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an commercial transport commandeered by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in this filmmaker's tense movie, derived from true stories. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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