You Might Want a More Substantial Ship: The 20 Best Movies Located on the Ocean – In Order!
20. Abyssal Attack (1998)
The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as mercenaries contracted to sink the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.
19. 1900's Tale (1998)
A infant, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly shown as a arrogant character.
18. Waterworld (1995)
Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.
17. RMS Titanic (1997)
Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of among history's notorious disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic stars a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.
15. The Last Voyage (1960)
The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the famous European vessel a real ship.
14. Nile Killing (1978)
Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt several passengers being shot, which narrows his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.
13. Ocean Stillness (1989)
Two lead actors play a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is fundamentally a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.
12. Maggie's Tale (1954)
An British man, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.
11. Juggernaut (1974)
The director provides his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the cruise director, delivers a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.
10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)
This cinematic interpretation of the author's book is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the flipped ship to security. the actress is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a practical background of competitive swimming.
9. Everything's Gone (2013)
The lead actor provides a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a man fighting to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to film.
8. Vessel Leader (2013)
The main star delivers sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a sensational film debut as the pirate chief in the director's tense movie, derived from true stories. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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