You're Gonna Need a More Substantial Ship: The 20 Best Films Taking Place at Sea – Ranked!
20. Deep Rising (1998)
Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a group of scene-stealing supporting players acting as mercenaries contracted to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.
19. The 1900 Story (1998)
A infant, abandoned on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.
18. Waterworld (1995)
The main star portrays a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a enhanced watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking raiders.
17. Titanic (1997)
Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who artfully converts a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening story of liberation.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Peasants, artistic entertainers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's sweeping drama stars a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.
15. Ultimate Trip (1960)
The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the famous French liner Île de France.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his potential killers to a limited selection. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.
13. Sea Silence (1989)
Two lead actors act as a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.
12. The Maggie Story (1954)
An UK citizen, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
The director gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation perspective in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.
10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
This film version of this writer's novel is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his flock through the upturned vessel to rescue. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of competitive swimming.
9. Total Loss (2013)
The main star gives a mature brilliant acting in solo performance as a person battling to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.
8. Ship Commander (2013)
The main star delivers excellent performance in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by real events. Should the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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