You Might Want a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Movies Located on the Ocean – In Order!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of memorable character actors portraying soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the world. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's notorious catastrophes. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship sailing from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a brave technician (the actor) save her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they rescue another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving items for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive style of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester provides his suspense story a state-of-the-nation angle in this nerve-shredding tale of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's book is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the flipped ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a experienced exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person struggling to survive in the maritime location after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers excellent performance in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from actual incidents. Should the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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