You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: Top 20 Greatest Films Taking Place at Sea – Listed!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of memorable character actors portraying mercenaries hired to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of the director's imaginative story is Roth fighting a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the main character and a brave technician (the actor) save her ahead of the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is essentially a horror film at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping goods for an US businessman, is deceived into using a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal British film in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation angle in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to lead his flock through the upturned vessel to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a late-career masterclass in single character portrayal as a person struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an stray transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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