You Might Want a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Films Taking Place at Sea – In Order!
20. Abyssal Attack (1998)
The director's futuristic scarefest details a group of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying soldiers of fortune contracted to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.
19. The 1900 Story (1998)
A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.
18. Aquatic World (1995)
Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired drifter with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his group of continuously smoking raiders.
17. Titanic (1997)
Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an inspiring tale of liberation.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's sweeping drama features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The fictional ship is torn asunder in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned French liner Île de France.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent several passengers being stabbed, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Two lead actors act as a partners attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! The director's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.
12. The Maggie Story (1954)
An UK citizen, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into employing a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the word.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation angle in this anxiety-inducing tale of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, serves up a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.
10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)
This film version of Paul Gallico's book is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the upturned hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful history of athletic swimming.
9. Everything's Gone (2013)
Robert Redford gives a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a man battling to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.
8. Ship Commander (2013)
The main star does sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the specific location. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a sensational film debut as the raider leader in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by true stories. When the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.
7. Triangle (2009)
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