You Might Want a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Films Located on the Ocean – Ranked!
20. Ocean Terror (1998)
The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing hired guns contracted to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. But a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.
19. The 1900 Story (1998)
A infant, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.
18. Aquatic World (1995)
The main star acts as a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, taking place in a later era where disappearing glaciers have flooded the world. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his band of constantly puffing raiders.
17. RMS Titanic (1997)
Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.
16. Ship of Fools (1965)
Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.
15. Ultimate Trip (1960)
The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their room in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the famous historic ship an actual ocean liner.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Two lead actors portray a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.
12. The Maggie (1954)
An Englishman, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and team trick the main characters for a ride, in all senses of the expression.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a state-of-the-nation perspective in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators placed on a passenger ship, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.
10. Ocean Disaster (1972)
This adaptation of this writer's novel is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the inverted hull to security. a supporting player is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of competitive swimming.
9. All is Lost (2013)
The lead actor gives a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a person struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.
8. Vessel Leader (2013)
Tom Hanks provides outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's thriller, inspired by true stories. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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