You're Gonna Need a More Substantial Ship: The 20 Best Films Taking Place at Sea – In Order!
20. Ocean Terror (1998)
Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast portraying soldiers of fortune hired to sink the cruise ship the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.
19. 1900's Tale (1998)
A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.
18. Waterworld (1995)
The lead actor portrays a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, taking place in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking pirates.
17. Titanic (1997)
Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of emancipation.
16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)
Working-class people, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the famous European vessel a real ship.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast mystery writer murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.
13. Ocean Stillness (1989)
Sam Neill act as a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that launched her career.
12. The Maggie (1954)
An UK citizen, moving items for an US businessman, is deceived into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in all senses of the word.
11. Juggernaut (1974)
Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding story of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.
10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
This film version of the author's literary work is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to guide his group through the flipped ship to safety. the actress is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of competitive swimming.
9. All is Lost (2013)
Robert Redford delivers a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a person fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
The main star does sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the commander of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding film debut as the raider leader in the director's thriller, based on actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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