You Should Consider a Bigger Boat: 20 Finest Movies Set on Water – Listed!

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest follows a collection of memorable ensemble cast playing mercenaries contracted to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is Roth competing in a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his band of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the legendary European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as the famous detective, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a married couple attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a social commentary perspective in this tension-filled story of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his group through the flipped hull to rescue. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy history of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature exemplary performance in solo performance as a man fighting to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers excellent performance in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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