You're Gonna Need a Larger Vessel: 20 Finest Films Located on the Ocean – In Order!
20. Ocean Terror (1998)
The director's science fiction thriller follows a group of attention-grabbing character actors portraying soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.
19. The 1900 Story (1998)
A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel the central location, grows up to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.
18. Waterworld (1995)
The main star portrays a warrior-esque wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off the villain and his band of continuously smoking pirates.
17. RMS Titanic (1997)
A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening story of emancipation.
16. Ship of Fools (1965)
Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.
15. Ultimate Trip (1960)
The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (the co-star) is stuck in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous French liner Île de France.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.
13. Sea Silence (1989)
Sam Neill act as a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a spin in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.
12. The Maggie Story (1954)
An UK citizen, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the word.
11. Juggernaut (1974)
The director gives his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.
10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)
This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is part of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the flipped ship to security. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of competitive swimming.
9. Everything's Gone (2013)
The main star provides a experienced brilliant acting in one-man show as a man battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.
8. Vessel Leader (2013)
The main star does sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in the director's tense movie, based on actual incidents. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.
7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)
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