You Might Want a Bigger Boat: Top 20 Greatest Films Set on Water – Listed!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of scene-stealing supporting players acting as hired guns employed to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Among the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired drifter with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off the villain and his group of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's epic stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a brave technician (Woody Strode) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the ocean, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "type of boat" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation angle in this tension-filled tale of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's novel is among the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the upturned vessel to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford gives a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a person fighting to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor delivers sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's thriller, inspired by real events. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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