You Might Want a Bigger Boat: 20 Finest Films Located on the Ocean – In Order!

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing mercenaries contracted to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a future where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a commercial vessel journeying from Latin America to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her prior to the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the legendary European vessel a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star mystery writer murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill play a partners seeking to heal from the pain of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this tension-filled tale of explosives planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings act as demolition specialists; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to direct his followers through the inverted hull to safety. the actress is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a handy experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced brilliant acting in solo performance as a person fighting to survive in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is damaged in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star delivers excellent performance in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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