You Should Consider a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Motion Pictures Taking Place at Sea – Listed!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of scene-stealing supporting players portraying mercenaries hired to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The highlight of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth battling a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the Earth. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of among history's most infamous catastrophes. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring story of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to Europe in 1933. The director's sweeping drama includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is played by the famous historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is essentially a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting goods for an American industrialist, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding story of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's book is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to guide his followers through the upturned hull to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature masterclass in one-man show as a person battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an lost cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), providing a remarkable film debut as the raider leader in this filmmaker's thriller, based on real events. If the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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