You Should Consider a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Motion Pictures Located on the Ocean – In Order!
20. Abyssal Attack (1998)
The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players portraying hired guns contracted to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.
19. 1900's Tale (1998)
A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a overconfident individual.
18. Waterworld (1995)
The main star acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking marauders.
17. Titanic (1997)
Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's most infamous catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a director who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of freedom.
16. Ship of Fools (1965)
Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. The director's epic includes a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The central vessel is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is stranded in their room in this compelling early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the main setting is represented by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Sam Neill act as a married couple attempting to recover from the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.
12. Maggie's Tale (1954)
An UK citizen, shipping items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's harsh British film in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in all senses of the term.
11. Juggernaut (1974)
The director imparts his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation angle in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.
10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
This film version of this writer's literary work is part of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his followers through the upturned vessel to security. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of athletic swimming.
9. Total Loss (2013)
The lead actor provides a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
The main star delivers sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, inspired by real events. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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