You Might Want a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Movies Located on the Ocean – Ranked!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players acting as hired guns employed to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is Roth battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque wanderer with mutated appendages and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark UK production in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a ride, in all senses of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled story of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his group through the upturned vessel to security. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy experience of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor provides a experienced brilliant acting in one-man show as a person fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the specific location. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, based on real events. Should the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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