You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Films Located on the Ocean – Ranked!
20. Abyssal Attack (1998)
This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players portraying hired guns contracted to sink the cruise ship the main setting. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.
19. The 1900 Story (1998)
A infant, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is Roth competing in a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a overconfident individual.
18. Aquatic World (1995)
Kevin Costner portrays a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking raiders.
17. Titanic (1997)
Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a director who manages to twist a casualties of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.
16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)
Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel journeying from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.
15. Ultimate Trip (1960)
The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the hero and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.
14. Nile Killing (1978)
Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.
12. The Maggie Story (1954)
An Englishman, transporting goods for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the term.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
Richard Lester imparts his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled yarn of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.
10. Ocean Disaster (1972)
This cinematic interpretation of this writer's book is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the flipped hull to rescue. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful history of competitive swimming.
9. Total Loss (2013)
The main star delivers a mature masterclass in solo performance as a man battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an stray transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.
8. Ship Commander (2013)
The main star provides excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from true stories. If the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.
7. Triangle (2009)
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