You're Gonna Need a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Motion Pictures Located on the Ocean – Ranked!
20. Abyssal Attack (1998)
The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune contracted to destroy the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.
19. The 1900 Story (1998)
A infant, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.
18. Waterworld (1995)
Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. Everyone is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his group of chain-smoking marauders.
17. Titanic (1997)
Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening tale of liberation.
16. Ship of Fools (1965)
Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.
15. The Last Voyage (1960)
The fictional ship is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is trapped in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can the main character and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Interesting note: the fictional ship is represented by the famous French liner a real ship.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Two lead actors portray a partners seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.
12. The Maggie (1954)
An British man, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into hiring a poor condition "type of boat" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and team trick the main characters for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.
11. Juggernaut (1974)
This filmmaker gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled story of bombs planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play demolition specialists; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.
10. Ocean Disaster (1972)
This adaptation of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his followers through the flipped ship to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of competitive swimming.
9. Total Loss (2013)
The lead actor delivers a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a person fighting to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to record.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
The main star does outstanding acting in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an US merchant vessel commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from actual incidents. When the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're not human.
7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)
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