You Might Want a Larger Vessel: Top 20 Greatest Films Taking Place at Sea – In Order!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a collection of scene-stealing ensemble cast portraying hired guns contracted to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the ship. The highlight of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star acts as a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the Earth. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama includes a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the legendary French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's dark UK production in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in all senses of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director gives his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled story of explosives planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of this writer's book is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to direct his flock through the inverted hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford gives a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a individual struggling to endure in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. He's matched by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, derived from true stories. If the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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