You Should Consider a Larger Vessel: Top 20 Greatest Motion Pictures Taking Place at Sea – Ranked!

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller details a collection of memorable supporting players acting as mercenaries contracted to sink the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Among the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The highlight of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known catastrophes. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship sailing from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a brave technician (the actor) free her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the main setting is played by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners attempting to recover from the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is essentially a horror film at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a run-down "type of boat" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the rebellious vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled tale of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the cruise director, delivers a touching portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his group through the inverted vessel to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy experience of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford gives a mature brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks does sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an commercial transport commandeered by maritime criminals off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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