You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: 20 Finest Films Located on the Ocean – Ranked!
20. Ocean Terror (1998)
The director's futuristic scarefest follows a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast portraying mercenaries employed to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A baby, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.
18. Aquatic World (1995)
Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing raiders.
17. RMS Titanic (1997)
Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's breathtaking depiction of among history's well-known tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening story of emancipation.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Peasants, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from North America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who deliver the film with its powerful impact.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The central vessel is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a courageous worker (the actor) save her prior to the ship sinks? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the renowned French liner a real ship.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Sam Neill play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at sea, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.
12. Maggie's Tale (1954)
An Englishman, moving furniture for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Of course, the ship's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; another actor, as the cruise director, serves up a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.
10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
This film version of the author's novel is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to lead his followers through the flipped ship to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy experience of athletic swimming.
9. Total Loss (2013)
The lead actor gives a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a individual battling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an lost cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.
8. Vessel Leader (2013)
The main star provides excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on actual incidents. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.
7. Triangle (2009)
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