You're Gonna Need a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Motion Pictures Taking Place at Sea – In Order!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest follows a collection of scene-stealing character actors portraying mercenaries contracted to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. But a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from North America to the Old World in 1933. The director's sweeping drama includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the film with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her prior to the ship sinks? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners trying to get over the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a trip in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a horror film at sea, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh British film in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators placed on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's book is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the inverted hull to safety. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a individual struggling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by real events. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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