You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: 20 Finest Motion Pictures Set on Water – Listed!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a group of scene-stealing supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the luxury liner Argonautica. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this megabudget science fiction adventure, located in a later era where disappearing glaciers have inundated the planet. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a director who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is trapped in their room in this intense early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a partners attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's suspense film is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a run-down "type of boat" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of the author's literary work is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his group through the upturned vessel to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career masterclass in single character portrayal as a man struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's tense movie, inspired by real events. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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