You Might Want a More Substantial Ship: The 20 Best Movies Taking Place at Sea – Ranked!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a collection of memorable character actors playing soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who remains aboard the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star plays a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel sailing from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they rescue another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is basically a horror film at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving items for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal UK production in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in all senses of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of this writer's book is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to direct his flock through the upturned hull to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a mature masterclass in solo performance as a person struggling to survive in the maritime location after his yacht, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's suspense film, based on true stories. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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