You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: 20 Finest Movies Located on the Ocean – In Order!
20. Abyssal Attack (1998)
The director's science fiction thriller details a group of memorable character actors portraying soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.
19. The 1900 Story (1998)
A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.
18. Waterworld (1995)
Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget science fiction adventure, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking marauders.
17. The Titanic (1997)
An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of freedom.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Commoners, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from North America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its dramatic punch.
15. The Last Voyage (1960)
The central vessel is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this intense early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which reduces his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.
13. Ocean Stillness (1989)
Nicole Kidman act as a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.
12. Maggie's Tale (1954)
An British man, transporting furniture for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.
11. Juggernaut (1974)
Richard Lester gives his suspense story a political dimension angle in this tension-filled yarn of bombs positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, provides a touching study in sadly funny despair.
10. Ocean Disaster (1972)
This film version of this writer's novel is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his group through the inverted hull to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical background of athletic swimming.
9. Total Loss (2013)
The main star provides a experienced masterclass in single character portrayal as a individual battling to endure in the maritime location after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
Tom Hanks provides outstanding acting in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by actual incidents. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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