You Should Consider a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Films Located on the Ocean – Ranked!
20. Ocean Terror (1998)
Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of memorable ensemble cast acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to sink the luxury liner Argonautica. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.
19. 1900's Tale (1998)
A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is the main character battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately depicted as a arrogant character.
18. Aquatic World (1995)
The lead actor acts as a samurai-like wanderer with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the planet. The entire population is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking pirates.
17. Titanic (1997)
An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring narrative of freedom.
16. Ship of Fools (1965)
Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's sweeping drama includes Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star crime novelist detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.
13. Sea Silence (1989)
Nicole Kidman play a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.
12. The Maggie Story (1954)
An UK citizen, moving goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in all senses of the expression.
11. Overwhelming Power (1974)
This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled story of bombs planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.
10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)
This film version of this writer's literary work is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the flipped hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of athletic swimming.
9. Everything's Gone (2013)
The lead actor provides a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a person battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to film.
8. Ship Commander (2013)
The main star provides sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, inspired by true stories. When the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.
7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)
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