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

20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of memorable supporting players playing soldiers of fortune contracted to sink the luxury liner the main setting. However 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 infant, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who remains aboard the boat. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is Roth competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost science fiction adventure, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the world. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who manages to twist a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening story of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from North America to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is played by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a trip in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, shipping furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the vessel's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding story of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's book is one of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his followers through the flipped vessel to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a person struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, derived from true stories. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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