You Might Want a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Movies Located on the Ocean – Listed!
20. Abyssal Attack (1998)
Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a collection of scene-stealing character actors acting as hired guns hired to sink the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.
18. Ocean Planet (1995)
The main star plays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of continuously smoking marauders.
17. The Titanic (1997)
A significant portion of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.
16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)
Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Continent in 1933. This filmmaker's epic includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is embodied by the renowned European vessel an actual ocean liner.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.
13. Sea Silence (1989)
Two lead actors act as a partners seeking to heal from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's thriller is essentially a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.
12. The Maggie (1954)
An British man, transporting furniture for an American industrialist, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in every meaning of the word.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
This filmmaker provides his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.
10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)
This adaptation of this writer's novel is part of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his group through the inverted vessel to safety. the actress is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of athletic swimming.
9. Total Loss (2013)
The main star provides a experienced exemplary performance in one-man show as a man struggling to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, inspired by real events. Should the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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