You Might Want a Larger Vessel: 20 Finest Motion Pictures Located on the Ocean – Ranked!
20. Ocean Terror (1998)
The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of attention-grabbing ensemble cast portraying soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.
19. The 1900 Story (1998)
A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth battling a piano duel with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.
18. Ocean Planet (1995)
The main star plays a warrior-esque nomad with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his band of continuously smoking marauders.
17. Titanic (1997)
Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of emancipation.
16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)
Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a commercial vessel sailing from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the main setting is played by the renowned historic ship a real ship.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.
13. Sea Silence (1989)
Two lead actors play a partners seeking to heal from the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.
12. The Maggie (1954)
An Englishman, transporting goods for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.
11. Overwhelming Power (1974)
The director gives his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.
10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)
This adaptation of the author's novel is part of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the main protagonist to direct his flock through the upturned hull to security. the actress is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a practical background of sports participation.
9. Everything's Gone (2013)
The main star delivers a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a man struggling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to record.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
Tom Hanks does sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the captain of an commercial transport commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from actual incidents. When the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.
7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)
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