You Might Want a Larger Vessel: 20 Finest Films Set on Water – Ranked!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller follows a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast portraying soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. Everyone is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who artfully converts a fatalities of numerous victims into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the sea, where they rescue another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and team trick the main characters for a trip, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled tale of bombs placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a emotional study in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of this writer's book is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to direct his followers through the upturned vessel to security. a supporting player is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star gives a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a man fighting to stay alive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by true stories. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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