You Should Consider a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Motion Pictures Located on the Ocean – In Order!
20. Deep Rising (1998)
Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest follows a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast portraying hired guns employed to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.
18. Ocean Planet (1995)
The main star portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the world. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking marauders.
17. The Titanic (1997)
An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.
15. The Last Voyage (1960)
The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is stuck in their room in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is played by the famous historic ship an actual ocean liner.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Two lead actors play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the sea, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that launched her career.
12. The Maggie Story (1954)
An Englishman, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in all senses of the expression.
11. Overwhelming Power (1974)
Richard Lester gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.
10. Ocean Disaster (1972)
This adaptation of this writer's literary work is among the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of the main protagonist to direct his followers through the upturned hull to safety. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful history of competitive swimming.
9. Total Loss (2013)
The lead actor delivers a experienced exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.
8. Ship Commander (2013)
The main star provides excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the raider leader in the director's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. Should the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.
7. Triangle (2009)
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