You Might Want a Larger Vessel: 20 Finest Movies Taking Place at Sea – Ranked!
20. Abyssal Attack (1998)
The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying hired guns hired to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.
19. The 1900 Story (1998)
A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.
18. Waterworld (1995)
The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget science fiction adventure, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. Everyone is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking marauders.
17. The Titanic (1997)
An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an inspiring narrative of freedom.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its powerful impact.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a courageous worker (the actor) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.
14. Nile Killing (1978)
Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop half the cast being killed, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.
13. Ocean Stillness (1989)
Two lead actors portray a partners seeking to heal from the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the sea, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.
12. The Maggie Story (1954)
An British man, moving goods for an US businessman, is deceived into using a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's brutal UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a journey, in all senses of the word.
11. Overwhelming Power (1974)
Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a emotional study in humorous tragedy.
10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)
This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's book is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to guide his followers through the flipped vessel to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of competitive swimming.
9. All is Lost (2013)
The main star delivers a experienced brilliant acting in one-man show as a person battling to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
The lead actor provides excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from actual incidents. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.
7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)
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