You Should Consider a More Substantial Ship: Top 20 Greatest Movies Taking Place at Sea – In Order!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a bunch of scene-stealing character actors portraying mercenaries employed to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like nomad with aquatic adaptations and a modified sailing vessel in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his gang of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Continent in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is stranded in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a brave technician (the supporting player) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director's thriller is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, 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 deceived into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled tale of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's book is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his followers through the inverted hull to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a individual fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star delivers outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in this filmmaker's thriller, based on true stories. If the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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