You Might Want a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Motion Pictures Located on the Ocean – Ranked!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller chronicles a bunch of attention-grabbing character actors acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to sink the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a enhanced sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off the villain and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this intense early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the sea, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Of course, the ship's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation angle in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to direct his flock through the flipped vessel to rescue. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a individual fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on actual incidents. When the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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