You Might Want a Bigger Boat: 20 Finest Movies Taking Place at Sea – Listed!
20. Deep Rising (1998)
The director's science fiction thriller details a group of memorable ensemble cast acting as hired guns employed to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A baby, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of the director's fantastical tale is Roth competing in a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.
18. Ocean Planet (1995)
Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like wanderer with webbed feet and a modified trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while fending off the villain and his group of chain-smoking marauders.
17. The Titanic (1997)
A significant portion of love story development between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's well-known tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a fatalities of numerous victims into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.
16. Ship of Fools (1965)
Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its dramatic punch.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her before the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned French liner a real ship.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.
13. Dead Calm (1989)
Sam Neill act as a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's suspense film is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.
12. Maggie's Tale (1954)
An UK citizen, transporting items for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a run-down "type of boat" in the director's dark British film in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the term.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a social commentary perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional depiction in sadly funny despair.
10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)
This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's book is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the flipped hull to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of competitive swimming.
9. Everything's Gone (2013)
Robert Redford delivers a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a man battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an stray transport unit. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.
8. Vessel Leader (2013)
The lead actor delivers excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's tense movie, inspired by real events. When the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.
7. Triangle (2009)
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