You Should Consider a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Films Located on the Ocean – In Order!
20. Ocean Terror (1998)
Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast portraying hired guns hired to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.
19. 1900's Tale (1998)
A infant, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the vessel. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.
18. Ocean Planet (1995)
Kevin Costner portrays a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. Everyone is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking raiders.
17. Titanic (1997)
Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a casualties of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of freedom.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.
15. The Last Voyage (1960)
The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is stuck in their room in this compelling early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The main star, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Two lead actors portray a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a horror film at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.
12. Maggie's Tale (1954)
An British man, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's brutal British film in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the vessel's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.
11. Juggernaut (1974)
The director imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.
10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)
This film version of the author's literary work is part of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the upturned vessel to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of athletic swimming.
9. Total Loss (2013)
The lead actor delivers a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person struggling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an stray transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.
8. Ship Commander (2013)
The lead actor does outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a remarkable first movie role as the raider leader in the director's tense movie, inspired by real events. When the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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