You Should Consider a Bigger Boat: 20 Finest Motion Pictures Taking Place at Sea – Ranked!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing hired guns contracted to destroy the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth competing in a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a warrior-esque drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget futuristic thriller, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his gang of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. The main star, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the subversive style of his own previous work. Predictably, the vessel's UK commander and team trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled tale of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his group through the upturned vessel to safety. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a individual battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an stray transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor delivers outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by true stories. If the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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