You Might Want a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Films Located on the Ocean – Listed!
20. Abyssal Attack (1998)
Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a group of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.
19. The 1900 Story (1998)
A infant, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.
18. Ocean Planet (1995)
Kevin Costner acts as a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the planet. The entire population is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking raiders.
17. Titanic (1997)
A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of emancipation.
16. Ship of Fools (1965)
Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's epic features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its powerful impact.
15. The Last Voyage (1960)
The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's partner (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the main character and a brave technician (the supporting player) free her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is embodied by the legendary European vessel Île de France.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Nicole Kidman portray a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the ocean, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.
12. The Maggie (1954)
An Englishman, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh UK production in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the term.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.
10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
This film version of this writer's literary work is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the main protagonist to direct his followers through the upturned ship to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of athletic swimming.
9. Total Loss (2013)
The lead actor delivers a mature masterclass in one-man show as a man struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He's matched by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, inspired by real events. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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