You Might Want a Larger Vessel: 20 Finest Movies Taking Place at Sea – Listed!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing mercenaries contracted to destroy the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of the director's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star acts as a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. The entire population is hunting for mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their room in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being killed, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a partners trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is basically a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting items for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this anxiety-inducing tale of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is one of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to lead his flock through the upturned hull to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a person fighting to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational film debut as the raider leader in the director's suspense film, based on actual incidents. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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