You're Gonna Need a More Substantial Ship: Top 20 Greatest Motion Pictures Taking Place at Sea – Listed!

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of scene-stealing supporting players playing mercenaries contracted to sink the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a enhanced sailing vessel in this big-budget futuristic thriller, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. Everyone is searching for legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an inspiring story of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic includes a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being killed, which reduces his persons of interest to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple trying to get over the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a trip in the sea, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled story of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his group through the inverted ship to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the specific location. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on true stories. If the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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