You're Gonna Need a More Substantial Ship: Top 20 Greatest Films Taking Place at Sea – In Order!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a collection of memorable ensemble cast acting as hired guns hired to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who remains aboard the ship. The highlight of the director's imaginative story is Roth battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the world. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of among history's most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting tale of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from North America to the Old World in 1933. The director's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the Pacific, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a horror film at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the rebellious vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's literary work is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his flock through the upturned hull to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced exemplary performance in one-man show as a man battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an lost shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport commandeered by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in the director's suspense film, inspired by actual incidents. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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