You're Gonna Need a Larger Vessel: Top 20 Greatest Films Located on the Ocean – Listed!

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of memorable supporting players portraying soldiers of fortune contracted to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is the main character fighting a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a enhanced sailing vessel in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the planet. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship journeying from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (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 courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the Claridon is played by the legendary historic ship a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast mystery writer detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which narrows his suspects to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners trying to get over the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing story of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's book is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the upturned ship to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a individual struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, based on actual incidents. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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