You Might Want a More Substantial Ship: Top 20 Greatest Films Taking Place at Sea – Ranked!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of scene-stealing character actors portraying soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have flooded the world. The entire population is searching for legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship sailing from Latin America to Europe in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is stranded in their quarters in this compelling early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a courageous worker (the actor) save her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the main setting is embodied by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a married couple attempting to recover from the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a trip, in every meaning of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this tension-filled story of bombs placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's novel is among the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his group through the flipped hull to security. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to watch, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star delivers outstanding acting in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable first movie role as the raider leader in the director's suspense film, inspired by actual incidents. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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