You Might Want a Bigger Boat: 20 Finest Movies Taking Place at Sea – Ranked!
20. Ocean Terror (1998)
The director's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of attention-grabbing character actors playing soldiers of fortune contracted to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately depicted as a arrogant character.
18. Aquatic World (1995)
Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his group of constantly puffing pirates.
17. The Titanic (1997)
Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an heartening story of emancipation.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel sailing from Latin America to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the renowned French liner Île de France.
14. Nile Killing (1978)
Angela Lansbury are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star mystery writer detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Two lead actors act as a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.
12. Maggie's Tale (1954)
An British man, moving goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.
11. Juggernaut (1974)
This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this tension-filled yarn of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional study in humorous tragedy.
10. Ocean Disaster (1972)
This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his followers through the upturned vessel to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of competitive swimming.
9. Total Loss (2013)
The main star gives a experienced masterclass in solo performance as a person battling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.
8. Ship Commander (2013)
Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in part of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, based on real events. If the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're not human.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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