You Might Want a More Substantial Ship: The 20 Best Films Taking Place at Sea – Ranked!
20. Abyssal Attack (1998)
The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players playing mercenaries employed to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the main character fighting a piano duel with a jazz legend, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.
18. Waterworld (1995)
The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a later era where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off the antagonist and his band of constantly puffing marauders.
17. The Titanic (1997)
A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening story of emancipation.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its dramatic punch.
15. Ultimate Trip (1960)
The fictional ship is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is trapped in their room in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the main setting is played by the renowned French liner Île de France.
14. Nile Killing (1978)
Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star crime novelist murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Nicole Kidman portray a married couple seeking to heal from the trauma of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a slasher movie at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.
12. The Maggie (1954)
An Englishman, moving goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
The director provides his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled tale of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in tragicomic desperation.
10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is among the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the inverted vessel to security. the actress is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical background of competitive swimming.
9. All is Lost (2013)
The lead actor delivers a late-career masterclass in single character portrayal as a man struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.
8. Vessel Leader (2013)
The main star does sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), providing a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on true stories. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.
7. Triangle (2009)
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