You Should Consider a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Motion Pictures Located on the Ocean – Ranked!
20. Ocean Terror (1998)
This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a bunch of memorable character actors playing soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly portrayed as a overconfident individual.
18. Ocean Planet (1995)
The main star acts as a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this megabudget science fiction adventure, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. All people is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking pirates.
17. RMS Titanic (1997)
Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of among history's well-known tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of emancipation.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Commoners, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to Europe in 1933. The director's epic includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the renowned French liner a real ship.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Two lead actors portray a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the Pacific, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's thriller is essentially a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.
12. The Maggie Story (1954)
An Englishman, transporting items for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the term.
11. Juggernaut (1974)
The director gives his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled tale of bombs planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.
10. Ocean Disaster (1972)
This film version of Paul Gallico's book is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the flipped vessel to rescue. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of competitive swimming.
9. Everything's Gone (2013)
Robert Redford provides a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual fighting to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
The lead actor does outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a sensational film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on true stories. Should the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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