You Should Consider a More Substantial Ship: Top 20 Greatest Movies Located on the Ocean – In Order!
20. Abyssal Attack (1998)
The director's futuristic scarefest details a collection of memorable character actors acting as hired guns contracted to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.
19. The 1900 Story (1998)
A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.
18. Waterworld (1995)
Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like wanderer with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while fighting off the villain and his band of continuously smoking raiders.
17. RMS Titanic (1997)
An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of among history's well-known disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an inspiring narrative of freedom.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Working-class people, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.
15. Ultimate Trip (1960)
The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a brave technician (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the legendary French liner a real ship.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop half the cast being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Two lead actors play a married couple seeking to heal from the trauma of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.
12. Maggie's Tale (1954)
An Englishman, transporting goods for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.
11. Juggernaut (1974)
Richard Lester provides his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.
10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the inverted hull to security. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful history of competitive swimming.
9. Everything's Gone (2013)
The lead actor delivers a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a person fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the main setting, is harmed in a impact with an lost cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.
8. Vessel Leader (2013)
The lead actor provides excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by true stories. Should the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.
7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)
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